Reaching a wide audience is important for streamers, but even more important is maintaining it. Being able to keep viewers entertained and engaged in the broadcast is key. It helps streamers to grow their channel, and to create a loyal fan base. It can also indicate what type of content the audience prefers.
We at Streams Charts collected all the necessary data to present you with the ten most popular Twitch streamers by Average View Duration in October. Only one stream per channel was included.
PENTA is a North American streamer that has been streaming on Twitch for years. He gained a massive following because of his GTA V RP gameplay, which is basically the only game he streams. Viewers love how PENTA makes his character seem real, and also the great storylines he is able to create. Randy Wrangler and Mike Block are two of his most famous characters, but the streamer has many others that are able to put a smile on his viewers' faces.
PENTA made a subathon while playing GTA V RP, with the streaming being live for 45 hours, and having an astonishing Average View Duration of 5 hours. He was the most popular streamer by the metric in October by a significant margin.
In second place we have a man that is a staple of the Twitch streaming community. DansGaming has been streaming for a long time and created a big and loyal fan base. The variety streamer is very respected in the streaming world by viewers and content creators. He entertains thousands of viewers from around the globe daily, and his community is very respectful, and friendly for new users. DansGaming did a horror month event, where he played different thematical games from the genre for 46 hours. Viewers watched his stream on average for almost 5 hours.
ChilledChaos closed the podium, with his 24 hours Kingdom Hearts III stream, which lasted 25 hours, and had an Average View Duration of 4 hours.
If we included all the streams instead of one stream per channel, the top ten would only consist of PENTA and DansGaming broadcasts. This indicates that both streamers are capable of capturing the interest of viewers for a long period of time, in multiple broadcasts, which is truly remarkable.
Two of the content creators on this list stream exclusively World of Tanks, and are among the most popular streamers of the genre on Twitch. These streamers are QuickyBaby from the United Kingdom, and skill4ltu from Lithuania, and both of them had an Average View Duration of 3 hours. Both streams had drops enabled which captured the attention of viewers and helped them reach a higher results by the metric. You can watch them on a daily basis playing the game and giving some tips to their viewers on how to improve.
It’s also worth noting that Gaules is the only channel that broadcasted esports content that made it into the list. The Brazilian megastar streamed the entire IEM Rio Major 2022 and its Road to Rio events. In the day when there was a do-or-die game between Imperial and Complexity in American qualifiers, Gaules broadcast lasted almost 38 hours, and the Average View Duration was 3 hours. It became Gaules ninth most popular broadcast until this day.
Most of the streams that are able to maintain their audience for a long period of time are usually marathons, subathons, or broadcasts where viewers can get drops or other types of gifts for watching them. Of all the streams from the top 10, only two didn’t last more than 24 hours, but both of them had drops enabled.
The streamers in the list did a great job at maintaining viewers' interest in their very long streams, some of them which lasted almost two days. It's already incredible to have a loyal fan base, and thousands of viewers who tune into your stream on regular basis, but maintaining them for such a long period of time is truly amazing. This shows that viewers really love the content these streamers bring them.
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