January was one of the strongest months for Twitch’s viewership in a long time, and February is continuing the trend, although with slightly less successful metrics. A combination of coverage of esports events and special streaming-related events boosted the purple platform’s viewership. In total, the platform generated 1.769B Hours Watched for the month, marking an 8% decrease compared to January.
Although an 8% drop in watch time sounds disastrous, the fewer days available in February for the platform to generate viewership do directly affect these metrics. In terms of general viewership, Twitch recorded 2.59M Average Viewers throughout the entire month, only a 2% decrease compared to the previous month.
Despite the many decreasing dynamics across metrics, Twitch was still successful in February. Excluding the previous month, 2.59M AV marks the highest average viewership Twitch has seen in two years. The 8% drop in Active Channels and the 5% drop in Peak Channels are both warped by the fact that these figures grew enormously throughout December of 2023 and January of 2024.
Compared to the majority of 2023, Twitch did record an increased amount of Active and Peak Channels. Historically, January and February are particularly powerful months for Twitch’s viewership, so these high figures are not unexpected.
Most Watched Games and Categories on Twitch, February 2024
Just Chatting and Grand Theft Auto V remained the most popular categories on Twitch, accumulating 248.6M Hours Watched and 151.5M Hours Watched, respectively. Just Chatting recorded the highest average viewership metric of any category for the month with 364K Average Viewers, however, both Just Chatting and GTA V saw a slight drop in viewership for February.
League of Legends recorded 126.6M Hours Watched throughout the month and recorded the highest peak viewership of all categories on Twitch. The esports season for League of Legends has already kicked off, and the viewership for the regional leagues around the globe is boosting the game’s viewership on Twitch. The Korean LCK league is the most popular of these regional events, and it contributed heavily to the category’s overall viewership.
The two five-a-side shooters Valorant and Counter-Strike secured fourth and fifth positions in this ranking. Valorant earned 89.1M Hours Watched, largely thanks to the Kickoff esports events in the Pacific region, EMEA, and the Americas. Valorant recorded a 60% higher Average Viewers figure and a 178% increase in Peak Viewers.
Counter-Strike enjoyed similar success thanks to IEM Katowice 2024 and the qualifier RMR events for the upcoming PGL Copenhagen Major. Although Counter-Strike’s dynamics across Hours Watched, Peak Viewers, and Average Viewers were not as high as Valorant’s, the classic shooter managed this with far fewer channels broadcasting the game. On average, Counter-Strike recorded triple the Viewers per Channel that Valorant could manage throughout February.
Fortnite fell towards the latter half of the ranking, but the game enjoyed a boost in viewership thanks to the return of the Fortnite Champion Series. February saw the first of three Majors take place for the esports side of Fortnite, which helped make up for the fewer channels broadcasting the game. Fortnite recorded 67.8M Hours Watched throughout February, marking a 1% increase in viewership, although the game also saw a 11% drop in Average Channels.
Dota 2 continued the trend of esports being a saving grace for viewership of Twitch categories. Similar to Fortnite, Dota 2 experienced a drop in channels broadcasting the game on Twitch but managed to record an 8% increase in watch time. In total, the MOBA title recorded 44.7M Hours Watched.
Call of Duty: Warzone recently released a Season 2 update patch which has helped the shooter to retain some viewership. Despite this, watch time and average viewership are both declining for the title. Warzone generated 35.6M Hours Watched, just slightly more than the last remaining Battle Royale game on this ranking.
Apex Legends experienced a 49% increase in watch time thanks to two factors: the beginning of the ALGS esports events and the release of Season 20. Esports events have clearly boosted the game’s viewership, but the new seasonal update caused a 105% increase in Peak Channels for the month. Due to a large influx of streamers returning to the title, Viewers per Channel fell by 42%. Throughout February, Apex Legends garnered 32.4M Hours Watched.
Minecraft ranked 10th in February’s rankings, dropping from 9th position in last month’s statistics. The block game generated only 26.7M Hours Watched, a significant drop from the 45.5M HW it generated in January. Minecraft remains as popular and ubiquitous in online culture as ever, however, the game experienced negative dynamics in watch time, peak viewership, and average viewership.
Most Watched Twitch Channels, February 2024
Most popular Twitch channels by watch time and peak viewership, February 2024
Turning towards the most watched channels of the month, Jynxzi reigned supreme with 10.15M Hours Watched generated in total for February. The Rainbow Six Siege streamer continues to dominate Twitch viewership, which he built on thanks to collaborations with famous creators such as KaiCenat, Caseoh, and Shroud. He also enjoyed a nice boost in viewership thanks to his Twitch Drops later in the month. Jynxzi reached 228K Peak Viewers thanks to his collaborative IRL stream with Caseoh.
Gaules, the face of Brazilian Counter-Strike coverage, took home second place not far behind Jynxzi. As long as Counter-Strike esports events are ongoing, gaules will continue to amass significant amounts of watch time thanks to Brazilian fans of the esports discipline. The first Brazilian of our top 10 ranking here generated 8.87M Hours Watched.
Ibai fell just outside the podium spots with 6.85M Hours Watched amassed. The Spaniard is one of the most well-known streamers around the globe, but his most-watched content of February pertained more to his esports pursuits. Ibai established an esports organisation named KOI with Gerard Piqué, and he often covers their games on his channel. Ibai was also the second-most popular streamer of February, having reached 322K Peak Viewers for his coverage of the LEC Winter 2024 grand final match, which featured the Mad Lions KOI roster.
Variety streamer fps_shaka garnered 7M Hours Watched, finishing just ahead of ibai and Baiano. While fps_shaka’s most popular content was his variety streamers of an assortment of games, Baiano exclusively covered League of Legends esports and generated 6.48M Hours Watched. Naturally, as a Brazilian streamer, Baiano’s most-watched content featured matches from the CBLOL, Brazil’s regional LoL league.
加藤純一です (kato_junichi0817) is a popular Japanese streamer, and throughout February he received 5.63M Hours Watched. Although a variety of his content is popular, his coverage of Valorant esports events was by far the most-watched. Japan has quickly developed into the Pacific’s largest audience for Valorant, and he received 137K Peak Viewers for his coverage of Valorant Challengers Japan 2024: enough to rank him as the 10th most popular streamer of the month.
The official ESLCS coverage channel was one of the most-watched and most popular channels of the month thanks to IEM Katowice 2024. The Counter-Strike coverage channel received 5.36M Hours Watched and 226K Peak Viewers for the event’s grand final between Team Spirit and FaZe Clan, the former of which shocked the international stage with a champion performance at their first S-tier international LAN event.
Auronplay and caseoh_ finished our rankings by watch time. The former has been on a GTA V role-playing marathon recently, enjoying a slight increase in his watch time for the month, which finally settled on 5.8M Hours Watched. Caseoh_, on the other hand, has continued his usual variety content throughout the month and did not record any significant dynamics compared to January. In total, the American streamer collected 5.54M Hours Watched.
In terms of the most popular channels of the month by peak concurrent viewers, this was largely dominated by Special Events. TheGrefg received 408K Peak Viewers for his third edition of the Premios Esland streamer awards, and QTCinderella received 295K Peak Viewers for her own Streamer Awards show.
Caedral garnered 167K Peak Viewers thanks to his coverage of the LEC grand finals, the same match ibai covered. French streamers Squeezie and Gotaga received 160K and 157K Peak Viewers, respectively, for their coverage of esports matches featuring the French fan-favourite esports team Gentle Mates. Squeezie covered their Valorant game against Vitality, and Gotaga covered their finals match in the RLCS against Karmine Corp, another famous French organisation.
Finally, IRL Brazilian streamer JonVlogs received 152K Peak Viewers for a special stream where he planned to give away a car.
Most Watched Twitch Streamers, February 2024
Most popular Twitch streamers by watch time and peak viewership, February 2024
These rankings are filtered results to only include personal accounts of streamers, rather than organizational channels such as ESLCS. Two streamers jumped into the top 10 once the Counter-Strike broadcaster made way; Papaplatte garnered 5.13M Hours Watched and Kamet0 135K Peak Viewers.
Papaplatte is one of the most well-known content creators to emerge from the DACH region, and throughout February Papaplatte hosted some of the most-watched Elden Ring streams of the month. Kamet0 is the co-owner and co-founder of the esports organisation Karmine Corp, and the streamer supported his organisation as they battled against compatriots Gentle Mates in the European Open Qualifier for the upcoming RLCS Major.
Most Watched Female Twitch Streamers, February 2024
Most popular Female Twitch streamers by watch time and peak viewership, February 2024
Among female streamers, QTCinderella dominated both rankings by watch time and peak concurrent viewership. Her singular Streamer Awards broadcast earned her 1.77M Hours Watched, more than 91% of her monthly total.
Emiru was the second-most-watched female streamer of February and the third-most popular. She streamed a wide variety of content to garner 1.29M Hours Watched, including cosplays, gym-related content, and gaming. She reached 59K Peak Viewers for her Lunar New Year celebration stream, which she collaborated with ExtraEmily for.
ExtraEmily tied for the fourth-most-watched female streamer alongside Kyedae at 1.17M Hours Watched. Emily also ranked within the top 10 most popular streamers of the month. Her most popular stream of the month was her gym content at Mizkif’s new gym. Both Emily and Emiru received a significant boost to their average viewership in February, partially thanks to this popular gym content.
Kyedae has been grinding Valorant consistently throughout the month, but her most-watched content of February was her coverage of Valorant esports matches, specifically those Sentinels played in. TenZ, an esports professional playing for Sentinels, is her fiancé, and her support and coverage of his matches were one of the most popular ways for fans to watch his matches.
Mira received 1.27M Hours Watched, thanks to her constant streams throughout the month. She was live for almost 650 hours throughout the month and featured the lowest average viewership of all streamers in this ranking. Her dedication to constant streams and up-time on her Twitch channel was enough to rank her highly within this top 10.
Rivers_gg, the most popular female Latin American streamer, ranked middle of the top 10 in both watch time and peak viewership. She received 1.05M Hours Watched and reached a peak of 33K concurrent viewers for her coverage of the Queens League, a football league which she is heavily involved with.
The remaining 4 streamers of the top 10 by watch time were all VTubers. ShyLily of Germany received 1.04M Hours Watched for her various variety gaming streams, and she was followed closely by fellow English-speaking VTuber ironmouse. Ironmouse was the most-watched VTuber of the month by average viewership, but her fewer hours live ranked her behind ShyLily with 993K Hours Watched total generated.
Zentreya of the United States generated 994K Hours Watched. She streamed various games throughout the month, but her most-watched stream was her debut of a new 3D model on Valentine’s Day. 橘ひなの (hinanotachiba7) received 985K Hours Watched and was the most-watched female Japanese streamer of the month. She is entirely focused on League of Legends, which made up the vast majority of her content for the month.
RevedTV, one of Germany’s most popular female streamers, received 124K Peak Viewers for her stream covering the Stream Awards. Not to be confused with QTCinderella’s awards, this show celebrated the best streamers of the DACH community. 2023 was a hugely successful year for Reved’s Stream Awards, and the full recap of the event and its viewership statistics can be found in our relevant article: “Papaplatte and LetsHugoTV win big at Stream Awards 2023”.
xChocoBars, Chica, and LuluLuvely all advertised the same event to reach their peak viewership: the TurboTax Expert Invitational. xChocobars was the most successful with 42K Peak Viewers, but Chica was not far behind with 35K Peak Viewers recorded. LuluLuvely even set a new personal record when she reached 33K PV, breaking her previous record by more than 5K concurrent viewers. Although they all reached their peak viewership advertising the same event in their title, none of them reached this peak on the same day.
Morphe_ya reached 28K Peak Viewers during an IRL cooking stream, also setting a personal record for her channel, Loupiote3 followed suit with a personal record of 24K Peak Viewers. Loupiote3 is a professional French Valorant player for a Game Changers team and reached her peak viewership hosting a watch party for the Game Changers EMEA Stage 1. She streamed the game between Karmine Corp GC and GiantX GC; although Karmine Corp is hugely popular, their team did not experience much success. Ultimately, Karmine Corp GC ended the group stage 0-4, and GiantX GC ended it 4-0.
