The list doesn’t include ninja, who spent half the year at mixer. He is unlikely to have been too worried about his income during this time. For every 100 bits-worth of cheers a content creator receives, they earn $1 , with twitch pocketing the difference.

Based on conversations I’ve had with dozens of streamers, taking that initial plunge when you’re not sure anyone is going to watch can feel like throwing a message in a bottle into the sea. We all gamble in our own ways when we reach out online, whether we’re swiping right on tinder or using a hashtag to look for people with similar interests. Maybe we end up feeling more alienated than ever before, or maybe we find people who make everything worth it.

As we can see above, stats for april and beyond are even more impressive. The early days of the coronavirus pandemic saw an influx of viewers to twitch followers, with average concurrent viewers increasing 12% year-on-year in march - the biggest year-on-year increase since august 2019. In absolute figures that’s 143 million twitch viewers, compared to 127 million in 2019. Even pre-coronavirus, many traditional television networks would love to report stats like those recorded by twitch.

Ninja is comfortably number one in terms of followers, with almost 17 million. He ended his exclusive partnership with twitch when he moved to mixer, but came back after the platform dissolved. Before fortnite came along and took over twitch in 2018, the streaming landscape looked a lot different.

Twitchcon 2018 hosted the finals of fortnite’s fall skirmish tournament, which saw a total of $10 million in prize money distributed among the winners. Over four million unique viewers tuned in to watch tournament content, which cumulatively weighed in at over 24 hours. This was vastly eclipsed by the 2017 lol tournament, which 106.2 million viewers tuned into to watch competitors compete for $4.9 million. He regained his top spot from tfue – a controversial figure, prone to using racial slurs in his streams. He claims 10 million followers for his fortnite-centric channel. In third place is michael grzesiek, better known as shroud, who like ninja is another double defecter returned from twitch.

“it was disheartening at times,” says burke, who nonetheless kept live streaming through it all. Use the twitch viewers bot to automatically increase the number of viewers watching your live stream and the chatbot to simulate users chatting in your stream. This will help you meet the twitch affilate requirements and rank higher than other streamers in the browse / game directories.