This year’s Esports Awards is swiftly approaching. The yearly awards ceremony celebrates key figures in the esports and gaming, including livestreamers and esports personalities. Recognising not only the achievements of the players and organizers of the esports industry, the awards show also covers content creators, and even coverage platforms such as Esports Charts. This year, streamers are up for the Streamer of the Year and Esports Personality of the Year awards at the Esports Awards 2024. We have collected data for all nominees, so we can compare the viewership statistics of these creators.
Streamer of the Year celebrates the forefront creators of livestreaming culture. The Esports Awards doesn’t only celebrate those for English-speaking audiences, but covers creators across the globe. Some, but not all, of these creators do have a direct esports connection, such as ibai or Gaules, who are well-known for their esports casting.
Streamer of the Year Nominees
Esports Personality of the Year instead focuses more on creators directly related to the esports community in their content. There is some overlap between this category and the other, but generally, these creators are entrenched in the esports scene.
Esports Personality of the Year Nominees
Kai Cenat was the most watched livestreamer of the year nominated for an award this year, with over 86.45M Hours Watched. The North American streamer remains one of the world’s most popular creators, and this would be his first and likely not last award for his streaming activities. Ibai from Spain was also highly popular. The Spaniard received 72.43M Hours Watched for the year so far, boosted by viewership for his esports co-casting & spectacular live boxing event series, La Veleda del Año.
Gaules, a true icon of the South American esports scene, was another highly popular streamer, with the vast majority of his 69.05M Hours Watched coming from his coverage of Counter-Strike events for Portuguese-speaking audiences. He was followed by a series of North American content creators, with Jynxzi and xQc leading the way. Jynxzi’s loyal audience on Twitch was the source of his 60.71M Hours Watched, whereas xQc received his viewership across multiple platforms. Most of the Canadian streamer’s 55.93M Hours Watched came from his Kick channel, where he has also mostly broadcasted from this year.
Caseoh_ and Caedrel were also particularly well-watched, with the two achieving 47.52M HW and 41.82M HW, respectively. While the former of these two is largely a variety gaming streamer, Caedrel has been laser-focused on his League of Legends esports coverage. Similar to tarik, who received 40.4M Hours Watched from dedicated Valorant streaming, Caedrel achieved most of his watch time from one game.
Finishing off our rankings, loud_coringa of Brazil and IShowSpeed of North America came in the final two places. Coringa received 27.68M Hours Watched from the variety of his gaming content, whereas IShowSpeed preferred the great outdoors, livestreaming various IRL content fromaround the globe this Summer. The North American creator recorded his 21.78M Hours Watched with only 377 hours of broadcasting time recorded, the lowest of any creator on this ranking.
In terms of peak concurrent viewership, ibai stands far above the rest, seeing as how he broke multiple Twitch viewership records this year. The Spaniard held his yearly boxing event, and the fourth edition of the event received 3.85M Peak Viewers on ibai’s personal Twitch channel. No one can argue with ibai’s supremacy when it comes to these large-scale live events.
Kai Cenat was also holding special events, but from inside his home. The North American has been collaborating with various celebrities and personalities over the past few years, but earlier this year he had one of his biggest guests ever on stream: Kevin Hart. The American comedian and actor joined Kai on stream for some antics, and Kai’s channel reached 722K concurrent viewers.
Tarik, Caedrel, and Gaules, all received their peak viewership for coverage of their respective esports. Tarik received 313K PV for his coverage of Valorant’s Masters Madrid, Caedrel received 212K PV covering League of Legends’ Mid-Season Invitational, and Gaules’ received 208K PV for covering the PGL Counter-Strike Copenhagen 2024 Major. On the other hand, creators like Jynxzi and Caseoh_ recorded their peak viewerships while collaborating with other streamers, rather than simply covering esports.
IShowSpeed reached 309K Peak Viewers for his real-life stream based out of Poland earlier this Summer, and loud_coringa reached 129K Peak Viewers for a special week-long marathon broadcast, which he hosted on his Twitch channel. All of these creators have contributed heavily to both the esports industry and the livestreaming community, and they deserve to be celebrated at this year’s Esports Awards. Follow the wards to see who will win on the ultimate day, and vote Esports Charts for Esports Content & Coverage Platform of the Year.
