Twitch Streaming Hours Remain Steady at 18.9 Billion in 2024
“Anticipate 2025 to be a significant year for multistreaming as the tools develop and become more user-friendly”
Total watch time on Twitch has remained steady year-over-year, with 18.9 billion hours viewed in 2023 compared to 18.5 billion this year.
StreamElements’ State of the Stream 2024 annual report – compiled from data provided by Rainmaker.gg – suggests that the reasons for the “stagnation in growth may be due to creators moving to different platforms or simply dividing their time with the rising trend of multistreaming to enlarge their audience.”
Daily viewing hours in Q4 have also remained consistent throughout the year, with the Q2 dip in viewership extending through the rest of the year.
Interestingly, Twitch’s top 9 games have stayed exactly the same over the past five years, with Grand Theft Auto 5, League of Legends, and Valorant ranking as the first, second, and third most popular games, respectively. CSGO, Fortnite, Dota 2, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, and Call of Duty: Warzone complete the remainder of the top 10, although the platform’s leading category continues to be Just Chatting, with more than double the hours viewed compared to second-place GTA 5, likely due to KaiCenat’s subathon.
KaiCenat – referred to as a “force” on the monthly and yearly charts – amassed 184 million hours watched across the year, more than twice as much as second-place ibai, although StreamElements cautions that this should not “detract from the impressive figures achieved by other chart members,” with Jynxzi, Caudrel, caseoh_, and Papaplatte all entering the top 10 for the first time this year.