The second quarter of the year witnessed some live streams with higher peak viewership numbers than the first one, led by the conduct of some prominent events. This list included video game and tech showcases and hybrid football matches that found large audiences in different parts of the world, especially on YouTube.
Most Popular Streams Q2 2024
Leading the charge in the overall list is the official Brawl Stars YouTube channel, which broadcasted the latest episode of its Brawl Talk show. There was a lot for fans and viewers to tune into during this April 20 live stream, including a host of updates coming to the game and in-depth looks at the New Hypercharges, Mutation modifier, and new brawlers being added.
Interestingly, this channel also topped the Q1 YouTube list thanks to the year's first Brawl Talk show. As with the second quarter episode, this one also saw the game's developers talk about upcoming updates and changes, which always creates a sense of occasion among fans and content creators.
There was also the showcase from Nintendo, whose Direct show held in June 2024, ended as the Japanese giant's most popular presentation by average viewership. It also reached over 2.96M Peak Viewers, marking it as the second most-watched Nintendo presentation of all time by this metric.
Among the exciting updates followers got was the company's game directors presenting details on 27 titles, encompassing new projects, remasters, spin-offs, and ports of popular games. One highlight was the unveiling of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which came a lengthy seven years after its initial announcement, as the developers finally showcased gameplay footage featuring the protagonist battling space monsters. The game is scheduled for release in 2025.
Third on this list, and the number one Twitch live broadcast by peak viewership was the channel record one from Kai Cenat. Also involving Druski and Kevin Hart, both comedians and actors, it managed to hit 721.7K PV, making the American youngster the most popular US-based Twitch content creator on the purple platform as it beat the previous record held by Ninja from his Ninja: Vegas 2018 event.
Labeled 'Sleepover,' this stream saw the guests and Kai dancing and amusingly recreating scenes from the Kingdom Hearts series, among other things. It also allowed the 22-year-old to almost double his previous personal record and hit the 11th-highest peak viewership of all time on Twitch.
Making it two mobile esports spots in the top five is the official MPL Indonesia channel's live broadcast of the MPL Indonesia Season 13's Grand Final between Fnatic ONIC and EVOS Glory which did 694.5K PV. It was the former's fourth straight win and fifth crown in six seasons, kicking off the Fnatic era in the best way.
Despite the troubles of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang's most popular side, RRQ Hoshi, it was only the second competition in the series to pass 100M HW after the previous split. Moreover, the 13th split was the fourth most popular tournament in this regional league, reflecting the mobile esports game's growing fame among the global audience.
Saudi Arabia's sxb tops the Kick leaderboard with 690.7K PV from covering the Kings World Cup 2024. He had a team taking part in this international football competition, with the June 2 broadcast involving his side, SXB FC, taking on Olimpo United, owned by Mexican legend Javier Hernández, in the Last-chance round.
Unfortunately, the side lost 0:3 to be knocked out of the maiden edition of this hybrid football tournament. Interestingly, with sides from Europe and the Americas dominating the Knockout stage participants list, only one Asian language was in the top five for cumulative hours watched contribution, with Arabic coming in fifth as the last entrant to pass the 2M Hours Watched mark.
Readers must remember that someone like sxb would have had many more entries on this top ten leaderboard if not for our system of selecting these top streams by limiting them to their most popular broadcast only. Some channels, like the Brazilian superstar, achieved multiple streams in the top five but by limiting channels to one slot each, we can provide a wider and more comprehensive view of popular content on these selected live-streaming platforms.
The rest of the top ten had an amalgamation of creators and content to keep fans of different genres happy. It includes more football matches, two instances of League of Legends matches attracting millions, and a couple of video game showcases, reiterating the diversity found on streaming services today for fans across the globe.
Twitch Most Popular Streams Q2 2024
We have already talked about the top Twitch broadcast, so let's move to the next two entries, which come from the successful inaugural edition of the Kings World Cup that was held in Mexico in May and June. This international football championship that featured both professional players and popular content creators included teams from the media football leagues — Kings League Spain and Kings League Americas — and invited teams from countries like France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Japan, and Ukraine.
The first live broadcast from this tournament was from French superstar aminematue, who was watching his team, Foot2Rue, take on Peluche Caligari — owned by Escorpión Dorado and Werevertumorro — on May 29. The Mexican side won 3:2 on penalties after regular time ended in a high-scoring 5:5 draw.
The other stream involved Tumblurr's side, Stallions, battling Porcinos FC — owned by ibai — on June 5. The Italian side lost 3:5 in the Round of 16 of the Knockout Stage, with the Spanish team going on to win the entire competition after beating Gaules' G3X FC 5:3 in the final.
With such luminaries covering the Kings World Cup 2024, it ended as the second-most popular event in the history of the Kings League series, with only the inaugural season in early 2023 ahead. It also became the most-watched non-esports event of the year so far while surpassing competitive gaming tournaments like the VCT 2024: Masters Madrid, LEC Winter 2024, and DreamLeague Season 22 in viewership.
The final two names in this top-five list involve League of Legends competitions, with the first coming from the Mid-Season Invitational 2024. Caedrel's coverage of the Lower Bracket Semifinal between heavyweights T1 faced G2 Esports attracted 212K PV as the world champion beat the LEC winner for the second time at the first international tournament of the 2024 season. It helped this iteration create several new viewership records and reaffirm the growing importance of community casting.
Also making an appearance here is the official LCK channel that live-streamed the LCK Spring 2024 Grand Final between Gen.G vs T1. With the two Korean giants meeting for the fifth straight summit clash, making it seven consecutive splits where one of these sides has made the decider, this competition became the most popular iteration of the regional circuit ever, reaching 2.66M PV during the final.
YouTube Gaming Most Popular Streams Q2 2024
Having already discussed the top three entries in the overall list, let's move to the next few names. Fourth was, again, the official LCK channel that was covering the regional league's Grand Final between T1 and Gen.G. This match was not only the most popular one in series history but also the most popular LoL game to take place outside the Worlds events.
In last place was the official Xbox channel that live broadcast the Xbox Games Showcase & Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Direct 2024 on June 9. The much-awaited COD: Black Ops 6 kicked things off with a gameplay trailer, followed by Doom: The Dark Ages officially being revealed by id Software. There were lots of other exciting updates for followers that helped this show record 627.7K PV.
Kick Most Popular Streams Q2 2024
Another channel covering the Kings World Cup 2024 found itself in the second spot in this top five leaderboard, as Colombia's westcol had the second most popular stream by Kick streamers during Q2 this year. His side, West Santos FC, was taking on the Iker Casillas-owned 1K FC in the Losers' Bracket on May 30.
The Spanish team edged a high-scoring game 6:5 to send the South American nation's last representative crashing out of the championship. Nevertheless, westcol finished as one of the five most popular streamers from this event, contributing heavily to the Spanish language's domination of the total watch time charts.
Elraenn's June 6 live stream came in third and made it a podium clean sweep of Kings World Cup 2024-related entries. His side, Limon FC, was Turkey's only representative at this event, and it made the nation proud by going all the way to the Knockout Stage, where it was beaten in a closely fought Quarter-finals 3:4 by Porcinos FC.
Thanks to the efforts of the team and its president, Turkish finished as the seventh-most watched language at this competition. It also finished as the sixth-most popular language, ahead of Japanese and English, with elraenn ending as the seventh-best channel overall when looking at the peak concurrent viewership.
The last two positions in this top five list are taken up by platform originals in the form of Adin Ross and trainwreckstv. The former, regularly one of the most watched online personalities on the green streaming service, saw his May 14 upload touch 169.1K PV as he discussed various topics with his viewers apart from playing the geography-based educational game, GeoGuessr.
The final name is that of one of the co-founders of the Stake-backed website, with trainwreckstv's broadcast from June 29 hitting 159.8K PV. It invovled him indulging in a bit of gambling via the Slots & Casino genre while also hosting a giveaway for viewers.
It ended up becoming his most popular live stream ever and the first one to cross 100K PV, with the American not coming online since. He made quite a few controversial statements when on air, including claiming that 99% of streamers were view-botting their broadcasts on different platforms, even calling out FaZe Clan for indulging in this practice, which is why this upload did so well and went viral on social media.
