StreamElements right this moment launched its State of the Stream: 12 months in Overview report for Twitch in 2024. The report reveals extra particulars about hours watched on the streaming platform in 2024, and likewise provides extra details about the streamers who topped the charts this 12 months. The chart reveals that, whereas Twitch itself appears to have made it by 2024 with roughly comparable view counts to 2023, the precise streamers who make up the highest checklist have shuffled round.
The report reveals that Twitch closes the January-November interval with 18.5 billion hours watched, near its 18.9 billion determine for 2023. Day by day watch hours for a lot of the 12 months remained constantly inside the 52-55 million hours vary; the primary quarter of the 12 months had the best views, from 61 million (January) by 57 million (March).
Along with the hours watched stats, StreamElements additionally revealed the checklist of 2024’s prime streamers, which options a number of new names. Jynxzi, Caedrel, caseoh_ and Papaplatte all joined the checklist for the primary time. Kai Cenat remained the preferred streamer of the 12 months, simply as he was in 2023, and he broke Twitch’s all-time subscription file.
Or Perry, StreamElements CEO, mentioned in an announcement, “Twitch has shuffled by a number of prime streamers over time. There was the Ninja period, then xQc’s reign, and now we’re within the KaiCenat age. The driving force behind the altering of the guards is platform diversification. Ninja started multistreaming whereas xQc is leveraging completely different platforms for distinctive content material, each of which have remained profitable. It’s solely a matter of time earlier than KaiCenat checks the water. It’s because being all over the place that avid gamers are is the easiest way to develop, whether or not you’re utilizing some platforms for discovery and others for neighborhood constructing. Anticipate 2025 to be an enormous 12 months for multistreaming because the instruments evolve and turn into extra accessible to the broader creator ecosystem.”
Twitch’s personal numbers bear out the StreamElements report, with the corporate reporting its 2024 Recap that the Simply Watching class grew by 9.3% over the 12 months, and named Kai Cenat as one of many prime streamers of the 12 months.
