Twitch: Interesting statistics and numbers about the streaming platform

For live streams, Twitch is probably the hottest platform these days. Reason enough to take a look at the numbers, data, and statistics to grasp the true significance of Twitch.

More than gaming: streamers on Twitch cover a wide range of topics.

Twitch is especially popular with fans of gaming streams, but by no means exclusively so. The rapidly growing content selection ensures an ever larger audience.

Twitch: These statistics explain the trend

The following facts and figures make it clear what scale Twitch has now reached:

• Increasing numbers: Due to the global pandemic, Twitch was still able to grow strongly since March 2020. In August 2020, the preliminary peak was reached with 985 million visits.
• Per day, Twitch welcomes around 15 million different visitors, including an average of 1.3 million people at the same time.
• The content comes from over three million streamers.
• The most successful stream of all time was set up by Superstar Ninja in March 2018: Over 600,000 viewers were live when Ninja played Fortnite with rapper Draker.
• The most successful German live stream goes to Knossi's fishing camp in July 2020 with about 312,000 viewers.

Twitch has thus long become a global phenomenon and continues to conquer new target groups. If you are not yet familiar with the platform, you can find it at the URL twitch.tv.