Twitch broke 100 million unique monthly viewers last year

[Shawn Knight]

Twitch – the video game streaming site recently acquired by Amazon – was pulling in 100 million viewers a month by the end of last year. That’s impressive in its own right but even more so when you consider it’s more than double the number of views it attracted just a year earlier.

One of the reasons viewership is up is because more people are streaming to the site. The company said they now have an average of 1.5 million broadcasters each month from around the globe. A year ago, that number stood at 900,000.

Asia and South America have shown the strongest growth in recent times.

It should come as little surprise that certain games are more popular in certain regions than others. Dota 2, for example, is most popular in the Philippines as 83 percent of local viewers tune in. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is the most popular title in South Korea while gamers in Ireland prefer Minecraft.

All of this highlights the fact that Twitch is one of the fastest growing and largest sources traffic on the Internet. In the US, for example, Twitch is the fourth largest site in terms of traffic behind Netflix, Google and Apple according to network researcher DeepField Inc.

Just as Twitch is taking off, so too is the world of competitive gaming, or eSports. The two are really complementing each other in terms of support and growth. Last March, for example, some 643,000 people tuned in to Twitch to watch the Intel Extreme Masters championship play out.

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[Skidmarksdeluxe]

It's amazing. Playing video games is fun but I can't imagine anything more dreary than watching someone else play them.

 

[Puiu]

It's amazing. Playing video games is fun but I can't imagine anything more dreary than watching someone else play them.

it depends. most good streamers interact with their viewers which kinda makes it like watching an interactive TV gaming show. I usually like to find streamers that have amazing radio voices and just talk with them

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

it depends. most good streamers interact with their viewers which kinda makes it like watching an interactive TV gaming show. I usually like to find streamers that have amazing radio voices and just talk with them

Alright then. I'll look into this Twitch thing soon then, it can't hurt. It took me a very long time to warm up to YouTube, now there are a few channels I subscribe to because I enjoy them very much (y)

 

[Puiu]

Alright then. I'll look into this Twitch thing soon then, it can't hurt. It took me a very long time to warm up to YouTube, now there are a few channels I subscribe to because I enjoy them very much (y)

Many youtubers actually stream live. Isn't it fun to be able to interact with your favorite youtube star?
Also the biggest reason twitch is so popular is because all major esports have their on it. I think the LCS world final had multiple streams up in multiple languages (every language had their own casters, backstage crew, reporters, analysts, etc).
Here's a link showing you how popular it was (stream name is riotgames - try watching the EU or NA LCS at least once thursday->sunday):
http://www.riotgames.com/articles/20141201/1628/worlds-2014-numbers

~During the final showdown between Samsung White and Royal Club, the peak concurrent viewers (the highest number of fans watching at once) was 11.2 million~ - this includes all stream websites (with twitch being the largest one) and TV .

As for more normal streams, here are some nice streamers that I'm sure you might like (at least one of them - I tried to give you a pretty wide range of personalities):
MANvsGAME, Ducksauce, ExcessiveProfanity, Ezekiel_III, Rushlock

Here's some advice: think of twitch not as stream website, but as a website that hosts IRC rooms and every room includes a live video. It's the social interaction that makes twitch fun for many. (kinda like MMO games)

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

Many youtubers actually stream live. Isn't it fun to be able to interact with your favorite youtube star?
Also the biggest reason twitch is so popular is because all major esports have their on it. I think the LCS world final had multiple streams up in multiple languages (every language had their own casters, backstage crew, reporters, analysts, etc).
Here's a link showing you how popular it was (stream name is riotgames - try watching the EU or NA LCS at least once thursday->sunday):
http://www.riotgames.com/articles/20141201/1628/worlds-2014-numbers

~During the final showdown between Samsung White and Royal Club, the peak concurrent viewers (the highest number of fans watching at once) was 11.2 million~ - this includes all stream websites (with twitch being the largest one) and TV .

As for more normal streams, here are some nice streamers that I'm sure you might like (at least one of them - I tried to give you a pretty wide range of personalities):
MANvsGAME, Ducksauce, ExcessiveProfanity, Ezekiel_III, Rushlock

Here's some advice: think of twitch not as stream website, but as a website that hosts IRC rooms and every room includes a live video. It's the social interaction that makes twitch fun for many. (kinda like MMO games)

Thanks for the heads up (y)