Big names in streaming usually sign agreements with various brands or agencies to represent them on Twitch. In this article, Streams Charts will tell you which Twitch Teams were the most popular in May 2021.
Disclaimer. The rating is based on the sum of hours that viewers have spent on streamers’ broadcasts during the month. Esports communities like Luminosity, TSM and G2 Esports were not included. Read a separate article about top Twitch communities of esports teams in May.
G FUEL team has taken the first place in the ranking for several months, including May. Last month, 421 streamer broadcasted under the community name. Their total Hours Watched grew by almost 10% compared to April (52.8M). In May, community members attracted 1.5M new followers.
As in April, Loaded agency is in second place. Over the past month, the team's streamers generated over 46.5M Hours Watched, which is 13.5% less than the G FUEL partners. At the same time, Loaded has a total of 39 streamers, the most watched of which were shroud (13.1M Hours Watched), summit1g (9M) and LIRIK (4.1M).
Third place goes to minecrafters from DreamSMP. In May, viewers spent nearly 27.2M hours watching the team's streamers. The largest contribution was made by the American content maker RanbooLive (9.7M Hours Watched) — 36% of the community total number was generated by his viewers.
The fourth place was taken by streamers from the United Talent Agency (UTA), where the most popular representative is traditionally NICKMERCS (he contributed 35% to the team's Hours Watched in May).
5th and 6th places go to esports broadcasts of Riot Games. The company's communities reached 23.8M and 22.8M Hours Watched in May, streaming League of Legends, VALORANT and Teamfight Tactics competitions. LCS Twitch Team is up more than 500% since April, thanks to broadcasts of the Mid-Season Invitational 2021.
In May the team of Corsair gaming brand was only in 7th place, when in April it was in 5th position. Community Hours Watched fell by 23%, driven by a drop in the numbers of their main streamer, summit1g. In May, he reached nearly 9M Hours Watched, while in April he generated over 14.1M.
8th place goes to the Spanish content makers agency Vizz. Last month, one of the team's representatives — Ibai Llanos — set a new personal record for Peak Viewers, when 1.5M people watched his broadcast at the same time. This is the second highest peak in Twitch history, and first place is taken by another member of the Vizz team — TheGrefg. Read more about the record here.
The May rankings were closed by the teams of Tribo Gaules (community of the popular Brazilian content maker Gaules) and Chang Gang (streamers’ community from the crime syndicate on the NoPixel server in GTA V).
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