Twitch ends 2024 with a new group of top streamers | StreamElements

StreamElements today released its State of the Stream: Year in Review report for Twitch in 2024. The report reveals more details about the hours watched on the streaming platform in 2024 and also provides more information about the streamers that topped the charts this year. The graphic shows that while Twitch itself appears to have made it through 2024 with roughly similar view counts to 2023, the actual streamers that make up the top list have shifted.

The report shows that Twitch ended the January-November period with 18.5 billion hours viewed, close to the 2023 figure of 18.9 billion. Daily watch hours remained consistently in the 52 to 55 million hour range for most of the year; The first quarter of the year saw the highest views, from 61 million (January) to 57 million (March).

In addition to the hours watched stats, StreamElements also released the list of top streamers of 2024, which includes several new names. Jynxzi, Caedrel, caseoh_ and Papaplatte are all on the list for the first time. As in 2023, Kai Cenat remained the most popular streamer of the year and broke Twitch’s subscription record.

Or Perry, CEO of StreamElements, said in a statement: “Twitch has selected several top streamers over the years. There was the Ninja Era, then the reign of xQc and now we are in the KaiCenat Era. The driver for the changing of the guard is the diversification of platforms. Ninja started with multi-streaming, while xQc leverages different platforms for unique content, both of which continue to be successful. It’s only a matter of time before KaiCenat puts things to the test. Because being everywhere gamers are is the best way to grow, regardless of whether you use some platforms for discovery and others for community building. We expect 2025 to be a big year for multistreaming as tools continue to evolve and become more accessible to the broader creator ecosystem.”

Twitch’s own numbers confirm the StreamElements report, with the company reporting this Summary 2024 that the Just Watching category grew 9.3% over the year, naming Kai Cenat one of the top streamers of the year.