Twitch Growth, Statistics & Demographics in 2021

Last Updated on 01/06/2022 by Dean

This article will cover the growth, statistics, and demographics of Twitch in 2021.

Every year, the live streaming industry is growing in size, and Twitch, being the largest streaming platform, is benefitting from this growth.

In Q1 of 2014, Twitch had 606 million total watched hours.

7 years later (Q1 of 2021) Twitch reached 6.3 billion hours watched on Twitch. That’s a massive 939.6% increase!

Twitch has also seen a notable increase over the last year.

Just one year ago (Q1 of 2020) Twitch had 3.2 billion hours watched. One year later, those numbers have nearly doubled!

Twitch has also seen a 107.873% increase in concurrent live streamers and a 99.6517% in average concurrent viewers.

We used Twitch Tracker to come by this data.

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Twitch has 2,876,262 average concurrent viewers in 2021 according to Twitch Tracker.

In 2021 so far, 16.6 million total hours have been watched on Twitch.

On average, 2 million hours are watched every month.

Month (2021)	Average Hours
January	2,171 million hours
February	1,979 million hours
March	2,181 million hours
April	2,238 million hours
May	2,307 million hours
June	1,962 million hours
July	1,954 million hours
August	1,847 million hours

On average, 111k concurrent streamers are live on Twitch in 2021.

Month (2021)	Concurrent Live Streamers
January	119,271
February	122,623
March	116,994
April	115,681
May	110,367
June	101,721
July	101,644
August	101,096

On average, 9.1 million streamers go live every month on Twitch in 2021.

Month (2021)	Total Live Streamers
January	9,894,745
February	9,517,967
March	9,602,746
April	9,355,405
May	9,023,142
June	8,282,892
July	8,336,539
August	n/a

Currently, twitch has 2,106,389 affiliates.

Source: CommanderRoot

Time for Q2 2021 @Twitch stats:
Twitch currently has 2,106,389 affiliates and 58,702 partners, all while having 2,041 staff accounts.
There are currently more than 4,489,227 emotes on Twitch.

— CommanderRoot (@CommanderRoot) July 1, 2021

Currently, Twitch has 58,702 partners.

Source: CommanderRoot.

The Just Chatting category is the most popular category on Twitch with a total of 1,827,518,000 viewers so far in 2021.

On average, 261,074,031 viewers watch the Just Chatting category every month.

Month (2021)	Category	Hours Watched
January	Just Chatting	248,144,653
February	Just Chatting	240,445,690
March	Just Chatting	270,395,369
April	Just Chatting	289,547,911
May	Just Chatting	285,948,196
June	Just Chatting	252,985,317
July	Just Chatting	240,051,080
August	Just Chatting	N/A

The most-watched game on Twitch in 2021 is GTA 5 with a total of 1,202,343,000 hours watched.

Month (2021)	Most Popular Game	Hours Watched
January	Rust	190,468,488
February	League of Legends	150,221,076
March	GTA 5	184,577,838
April	GTA 5	239,438,984
May	GTA 5	253,419,456
June	GTA 5	170,602,312
July	GTA 5	142,539,300
August	N/A	N/A

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According to GlobalWebIndex, Twitch viewers are 65% male and 35% female.

According to GlobalWebIndex, 73% of viewers on Twitch are aged between 16 and 34.

Here are the age ratios in more detail:

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Just like its streamers, Twitch makes money through subscriptions, advertisements, and bit donations.

For the majority of Affiliates and Partners, Twitch will take a 50/50 cut meaning they keep $2.50 for each subscriber on Twitch.

Some top-tier streamers qualify for a 70/30 revenue split meaning they keep at least $3.50 per tier 1 subscriber.

Additionally, Twitch will take a cut from advertisements.

And while Twitch does not take a cut from donated bits, they do charge a premium when selling bits to viewers.

On top of the cut they take from streamers, Twitch also makes money from turbo subscriptions and their partnership with the NFL.

According to a SuperData report, Twitch made 1.54 billion in total revenue in 2019.

If we used those revenue numbers from 2019 ($1.54 billion), and compare their Q1 results (2.779 billion hours) to the Q1 results of 2021 (6.3 billion hours) we estimate that Twitch will make $3.49 billion in 2021.

Some revenue statistics:

According to a Needham Analyst Laura Martin, Twitch is currently worth $15 billion. That’s a 1446.39% increase from the 970 million Amazon bought it for in 2014.

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While YouTube and Facebook (and Facebook especially) are gaining traction in the streaming world, they still don’t come close to the size that Twitch has.

Here are the current numbers:

• Twitch has 71.8% of the market share
• YouTube Gaming has 15.6% of the market share
• Facebook Gaming has 12.6% of the market share

And here are the in-depth statistics for the 3 major streaming platforms.