Twitch reaches 3MN video streams per month
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Michelle Clancy
| 19 December 2018

Live game-streaming platform Twitch now averages three million streamers per month — up from two million in 2017 — with nearly half a million creators going live every single day.

The network made the announcement during its Twitch Holiday Spectacular, which highlighted what the platform’s streamers accomplished this year. It also said that more than one million people are on Twitch at any given moment, while 434 billion minutes of content have been consumed this year.

The top new games of 2018 based on minutes watched were Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, followed by Monster Hunter World, Sea of Thieves, FIFA 19, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Realm Royale, Dragon Ball Fighterz, Far Cry 5 and Detroit: Become Human.

There was also an 86% growth in the number of official Twitch Partners and Affiliates joining the network — who are able to make use of revenue-earning capabilities .

Twitch’s top partner this year was Ninja, who streamed the equivalent of 95 40-hour workweeks. In March, his Fortnite event Ninja Vegas 18 drew 667,000 concurrent viewers and set the record for most concurrent viewers on an individual stream; and a week earlier, his Fortnite stream with rapper Drake brought 628,000 watchers.

That record was shattered during the E3 gaming expo in June, which saw 2.9 million concurrent viewers tuning in on a single stream.