Twitch.tv Gaming Statistics

Streaming has blown up over the past couple of years thanks to services like offering gamers the equivalent of cable TV for video games. The most-viewed clip of all time according to Twitch Strike is a clip from JesseDStreams which simply features the eponymous Jessie D waking up after having fallen asleep while watching TV. As you might imagine from a channel that normally features content of this ilk, Jesse D's channel normally garners only a small number of viewers.
The only real downside to Twitch is that it can be a challenge to be seen as a new streamer, with so many constantly popping up. With so many small broadcasters competing to break out and get noticed - you'll need to work harder to build a sizeable following.



Many of the core characteristics underlying electronic music — percussive rhythms, repetitive hooks, vocal-free instrumentals and high-tech gear setups — make the genre particularly conducive to collaborations with gamers and game developers, and Twitch has frequently served as ground zero for these collaborations in the modern era.
The early days of the coronavirus pandemic (the time of writing) saw an influx of viewers to Twitch, with average concurrent viewers increasing 12% year-on-year in March (as of midway through the month)- the biggest year-on-year increase since August 2019.

Initially, the authors of the Twitch project believed that users would arrange a reality show from their own everyday life, but the games demand was (and remains) so high that all other ideas were abandoned because they would only distract attention from the main task of such a successful live streaming resource.
In December 2016, Twitch expanded to allow non-gaming streams — mostly vlogs — on Twitch And while the roll-out and subsequent support had its fair share of misteps and controversies , live, non-gaming content has helped Twitch give it a leg up against its live-content rival Google's YouTube ( $NASDAQ:GOOG ).

The company's official music guidelines now seem stricter as well — explicitly laying out that streamers are only allowed to play music in the background that they own, or that they licensed directly from rights holders, with no mention of the Twitch Music Library as an alternative resource.
Beyond the above, Warcraft-spinoff Hearthstone (31,496 viewers, 238 channels - 131 average), tournament favourite Dota 2 (57,677 viewers, 687 channels - 83 average), and the modern update of schoolyard favourite Magic: The Gathering (7,532 viewers, 105 channels - 72 average) deliver strong viewer to channel ratios.

Yes, you are streaming the popular strategy game League of Legends, but depending on the time of day and what is happening in Twitch, hundreds or thousands of others are streaming it. And if any of the eSports teams are streaming these games, either in competition or just for fun, audiences will flock to those streams without question.