To get a deeper insight into the preferences of the biggest language groups on Twitch, Streams Charts continues to provide the quarterly analysis of each group’s respective viewership results. In Q3 2021, Portuguese ranked as the third most prevalent language group on Twitch by Hours Watched, following English and Spanish.
This article analyses the viewership results of the Top 100 Portuguese-speaking Twitch streamers during the third quarter of 2021 (July-September). Studio and gaming community channels were excluded from these statistics.
Just like in the case of English and Spanish-speaking streamers, Portuguese-speaking content creators too saw a decline in viewership in recent months. During Q3 2021, the Top 100 Portuguese-speaking Twitch streamers generated 211.6M Hours Watched, which makes 3.67% of total HW (5.75BN) accumulated on the platform and 48.65% of total HW (434.9M) generated by all Portuguese-speaking Twitch streamers in Q3 2021.
That said, the drop in their Hours Watched during Q3 2021 was the lowest out of said three language groups, with only a 14.7% decline in HW compared to the previous quarter. The total Air Time of the Top 100 in Q3 2021 accounted for 63.6K hours, showing an 8.58% decrease in Air Time. Note that this is the highest Air Time contribution out of the top three language groups.
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The distribution of countries shows Brazil as the most represented country among the Spanish-speaking streamers, with 95 out of 100 creators being from Brazil, 4 from Portugal and one from Paraguay.
Accordingly, the Brazilians made the largest contribution of 61.6K hours of Air Time (96.8% of Total Top-100 AT), generating over 207.8M Hours Watched (98.2% of Total Top-100 HW). Portugal creators generated a total of 2.9M Hours Watched (1.4%) during 1.7K hours of Air Time (2.7%) and the Paraguayan streamer alone accumulated 760K HW (0.4%) over 304.7 hours (0.5%) of broadcast.
The analysed group consisted of 90 male and 10 female streamers, which manifested in the Hours Watched ratio — 204.1M HW (96.5% of Total Top-100 HW) as opposed to 7.4M HW (3.5%). That’s a 14.91% decrease in male streamers’ HW and an 8.42% decrease in female streamers’ HW.
Furthermore, boys contributed 57.8K hours of Air Time in Q3 2021 (12.8 % decline in AT compared to Q2 2021), while girls notably increased the time they spent broadcasting and marked a total of 5.8K hours of Air Time (76.75% AT growth).
The predominance of male streamers within the Top 100 is characteristic for all of the mentioned language groups, but both Portuguese and Spanish-speaking groups saw an increase in the number of female creators within the Top 100 in Q3 2021, signalling the rising popularity of female streamers among Portuguese and Spanish-speaking audiences.
As for partner distribution, 86 out of the Top 100 Portuguese-speaking Twitch streamers in Q3 2021 were Twitch Partners, 12 held the status of Twitch Affiliates and 2 were not a part of any of the official Twitch programs.
In terms of the Hours Watched indicator, Twitch Partners generated 198.4M HW (93.8% of Total Top-100 HW), Twitch Affiliates generated 11.1M HW (5.3%) and the two creators without a Twitch program garnered 2M HW (1%).
While Twitch Partners spent in total 57K hours streaming (89.6% of the Total Top-100 AT), Twitch Affiliates contributed 6K hours of Air Time (9.5%) and the creators without a Twitch program contributed 562 hours of Air Time (0.9%).
The most popular Portuguese-speaking streamers on Twitch in Q3 2021
There have been barely any changes in the Top 10 Portuguese-speaking Twitch streamers since Q2 2021, with most of the names persisting in the chart with only slight changes in their positions. All of the streamers in the Top 10 are Brazilian males.
The leader of the Portuguese-speaking segment of Twitch remains Alexandre “Gaules” Borba, who’s been occupying the first spot during the whole year. In Q3 2021, his viewers spent 36.4M hours watching his streams, which is 17.22% of the total Hours Watched generated by the Top 100. Compared to Q2, Gaules’s Hours Watched count went down by 21.6%, while his Air Time remained practically unchanged (0.42% growth).
The second place was taken by a representative of the organization LOUD — loud_coringa. In the third quarter of 2021, the Brazilian generated 33M Hours Watched (15.63% of the Total Top-100 WH), which is 38.65% more than in Q2. Coringa also reached the highest viewership peak among the Top 10 — 159.9K concurrent viewers, hit during his broadcast of the Grand Theft Auto V in July. Casimito closes the Top 3 with 8.35M Hours Watched (3.95% of the Total Top-100 WH).
The rest of the streamers who earned a spot in the Top 10 of most-watched Portuguese-speaking Twitch creators are alanzoka, YoDa, mount, NOBRU, Cellbit, Baiano and blxckoutz.
As for the top female Spanish-speaking streamers, the current leader is Gabi, who in Q3 2021 generated over 1.15M Hours Watched (0.55% of Total Top-100 HW). That’s a 20.75% decrease in viewership compared to Gabi’s results from Q2 2021, yet it was enough for her to advance from being the second most popular Portuguese-speaking streamer.
The second is shayvictorioo with a 1M Hours Watched mark (0.48% of Total Top-100 HW) — the shayvictorioo’s first time placing in the Top 100. paulanobre is third with 889K Hours Watched (0.42%), followed by EaiMaka, yayahuz, Doutora, loud_babi, Sabsdenada, nahzinhaa and TrizPariz.
The streamers with the highest Air Time count in Q3 2021 were JohnPitterTV (2.19K h), blxckoutz (2.18K h), Gaules (2.17K h), Doutora (2.166K h) and c9judite (2.165K h).
Most popular categories
The most popular category among the audiences of the Top 100 Portuguese-speaking Twitch creators in Q3 2021 was Grand Theft Auto V. Broadcasted by 36 streamers from the analysed group, the game accumulated 51M Hours Watched (24.14% of Total HW by the Top-100). The second most-watched title was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with 40.3M Hours Watched (19.07%), broadcasted by 41 streamers.
Just Chatting was streamed by the highest number of creators — 87 people from the Top 100 streamed in this category at least once between July and September. As the third most-watched category, it generated over 17.4M Hours Watched (19.26% of Total Top-100 HW). The Top 5 categories also included League of Legends (16M HW) and VALORANT (9.3M HW).
Looking at the gender split of categories by Hours Watched, the preferences of each group’s audiences slightly varied, with viewers of male streamers preferring League of Legends and Fortnite, while audiences of the female streamers had an extra preference for VALORANT and Garena Free Fire.
Sorted by Air Time — CS:GO (11.8K h), Fortnite (6.19K h) and GTA V (6K h) were the most-streamed categories by male streamers, while female creators preferred to broadcast mostly CS:GO (2.35K h), GTA V (987.9 h) and Just Chatting (740.4 h).
The audience overlap analysis — or what portion of Gaules’s audience also watched other streamers in the Top 10 of Portuguese-speaking Twitch streamers — shows the highest overlap with casimito (51.39%), Baiano (49.99%), YoDa (45.74%), alanzoka (37.15%) and Cellbit (36.16%).
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