May 2021 results on Twitch: the most popular streamers, categories and broadcasts

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When it comes to Twitch streaming, May has been quite fruitful: an all-time record set by Ibai, a separate pool category, and the sudden rise of GTA V, which is almost catching up with “Chatting” in terms of hours watched. In our new article, Streams Charts will tell you about the platform's results in May 2021.

The most popular categories in May 2021

Compared to April, Just Chatting lost 4M hours watched. In May, the category was filled with hot tub- and pool-based streams. The situation became controversial and started spiraling out of control – so, at the end of the month, Twitch created the separate Pools, Hot Tubs & Beaches category for this kind of content.

Grand Theft Auto V continued to show growth on the platform. In May, its indicator was improved by 6%, which is equal to a whole 14M hours watched. During one of the weeks of May, the game even managed to overtake Just Chatting. This category may be the one to break the “Chatting’s” streak soon.

Valorant, the shooter from Riot Games, has climbed two spots thanks to the Valorant Champions Tour 2021. You can find more details about the results of this esports competition in the following article.

Dota 2 was pushed out of the top 10 by the Resident Evil Village. Earlier we talked about the new part of the "Resident Evil" series in our blog.

The most popular streamers in May 2021

Among the channels of organizations, Riot Games became the leader in May. Last month, they aired the Mid-Season Invitational 2021 on League of Legends and the Dawnbringer Cup on Teamfight Tactics, with their channel reaching 15M hours watched in May. For the same reason, the fourth spot in the ranking was taken by the LCK_Korea channel. The Flashpoint channel, which hosted the matches of the European RMR tournament in CS:GO, was yet another channel to enter the top.

In the men's top, xQc remained in the first spot. His airtime in May was only 18 hours longer, but his hours watched grew by 9M. Gaules climbed to the second spot with 15M hours watched. Compared to April, the monthly rankings featured such new faces as Auronplay and Ibai.

Kaitylin “Amouranth” Siragusa became the leading female streamer in May. She was the most-watched hot tub streamer, with a total of 4.4M Hours Watched in May, accumulated over a total of 368 hours of airtime. Read more about Hot Tub streamers in our report.

IamCristinini continued holding the second spot. Just like in April, Cristina devoted the whole month to the Grand Theft Auto V broadcasts – specifically to the Grand Theft Auto V. Pokimane mostly streamed Valorant, but in May she also had a hot tub stream with the OfflineTV content makers.

Top May broadcasts by Peak Viewers

Ibai Llanos set a personal best in May by gathering 1.5M Peak Viewers during the broadcast dedicated to boxing. As a result, he became the second most-watched streamer by the peak viewers indicator in Twitch history. More details can be found in this article.

Quackity made it to the top thanks to Minecraft, and the rest of the list is filled with League of Legends esports streams, namely MSI 2021 and EU Masters. Note that Shroud partnered with Valorant and broadcast VCT 2021.

The most popular Twitch clip in May (18+):

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