Twitch has maintained stable viewership in 2024, with 18.5 billion hours watched, compared to 18.9 billion hours in 2023, according to new reporting from StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg.

The platform’s daily viewership showed strong performance in Q1 and stabilization through early Q4. The slight decline in total watch hours coincides with creators increasingly adopting multistreaming practices and exploring presence on multiple platforms.

Source: StreamElements

Content creator Kai Cenat emerged as the platform’s dominant force, claiming the top monthly spot four times throughout the year. Rising star Jynxzi secured the position twice, while five other creators each topped the monthly charts once.

Several creators achieved their first-ever placement in the yearly top 10, including Jynxzi, Caudrel, caseoh_, and Papaplatte. StreamElements attributes the high-ranking performance to successful subathon events and large-scale collaborations featuring multiple popular streamers.

Source: StreamElements

“Twitch has shuffled through several top streamers over the years,” StreamElements CEO Or Perry stated in a blog post. “There was the Ninja era, then xQc’s reign, and now we are in the Kai Cenat age. The driver behind the changing of the guards is platform diversification.”

Perry anticipates increased adoption of multistreaming in 2025, citing “evolving tools and growing accessibility for creators.”

The platform’s top 10 games list remains largely unchanged for the fifth consecutive year. The only notable movement involves Call of Duty: Warzone and Apex Legends exchanging positions twice during this period. The current top games represent a mix of genres: two MOBAs, two tactical first-person shooters, three battle royale titles, one sandbox survival game, one MMORPG, and the Just Chatting category.

November data shows a significant growth in Just Chatting viewership, primarily driven by Kai Cenat’s subathon activities in the category.

Source: StreamElements

The stability in watch time and consistent game rankings comes as Twitch creators increasingly explore multi-platform strategies. Perry notes that successful creators like Ninja and xQc maintain their influence while leveraging different platforms for varied content distribution and community-building purposes.

Read the full report here.