Twitch is wrapping up 2024 with a new lineup of the best live streamers | StreamElements

StreamElements Today it released its State of Streaming: The Year in Review report for Twitch in 2024. The report reveals more details about hours watched on the streaming platform in 2024, and also provides more information about which streamers topped the charts this year. The chart shows that while Twitch itself appears to have made it through 2024 with roughly similar viewership numbers to 2023, the actual streamers who make up the top list have changed.

The report reveals that Twitch closed the January-November period with 18.5 billion hours watched, which is close to its number of 18.9 billion hours for 2023. Daily hours watched for most of the year remained steady in the 52-55 million hours range; The first quarter of the year had its highest viewership, from 61 million (January) to 57 million (March).

In addition to the hours watched statistics, StreamElements also published a list of the best streamers of 2024, which includes many new names. Jynxzi, Caedrel, caseoh_, and Papaplatte join the roster for the first time. Kai Cenat remains the most popular streamer of the year, just as he was in 2023, and has broken Twitch’s all-time subscription record.

“Twitch has cycled through many of the top streamers over the years. There was the Ninja era, then the xQc era, and now we’re in the KaiCenat era,” O Perry, CEO of StreamElements, said in a statement. “The motivation behind the changing of the guard is to diversify the platform.” Ninja started multi-streaming while xQc leveraged different platforms to deliver unique content, and both have remained successful and it’s only a matter of time before KaiCenat tests the waters because being present everywhere players are is the best way to go For growth, whether you use some platforms for exploration and others for community building We expect 2025 to be a big year for multicasting as tools evolve and become more accessible to the broader creator ecosystem.

Twitch’s own numbers carry a StreamElements report, as the company reported 2024 summary The Just Watching category grew by 9.3% over the year, and Kai Cenat was named one of the top streamers of the year.