StreamElements today released its State of the Stream: Year in Review report for Twitch in 2024. The report reveals more details about hours watched on the streaming platform in 2024, and also gives more information about the streamers who topped the charts this year. The chart shows that, while Twitch itself seems to have made it through 2024 with roughly similar view counts to 2023, the actual streamers who make up the top list have shuffled around.
The report reveals that Twitch closes the January-November period with 18.5 billion hours watched, close to its 18.9 billion figure for 2023. Daily watch hours for most of the year remained consistently within the 52-55 million hours range; the first quarter of the year had the highest views, from 61 million (January) through 57 million (March).
In addition to the hours watched stats, StreamElements also published the list of 2024’s top streamers, which features several new names. Jynxzi, Caedrel, caseoh_ and Papaplatte all joined the list for the first time. Kai Cenat remained the most popular streamer of the year, just as he was in 2023, and he broke Twitch’s all-time subscription record.
Or Perry, StreamElements CEO, said in a statement, “Twitch has shuffled through several top streamers over the years. There was the Ninja era, then xQc’s reign, and now we are in the KaiCenat age. The driver behind the changing of the guards is platform diversification. Ninja began multistreaming while xQc is leveraging different platforms for unique content, both of which have remained successful. It’s only a matter of time before KaiCenat tests the water. This is because being everywhere that gamers are is the best way to grow, whether you are using some platforms for discovery and others for community building. Expect 2025 to be a big year for multistreaming as the tools evolve and become more accessible to the broader creator ecosystem.”
Twitch’s own numbers bear out the StreamElements report, with the company reporting its 2024 Recap that the Just Watching category grew by 9.3% over the year, and named Kai Cenat as one of the top streamers of the year.
