The total number of Hours Watched on Twitch decreased by 4% in November, which happened partly due to the end of the Dota 2 tournament season, as well as a lesser amount of 2023 World Championship matches. When it comes to other categories, Fortnite and World of Warcraft showed the most progress last month, while Dota 2 had the biggest viewership drop among them.
Most watched Twitch games and categories in November 2023
Just Chatting retained its leadership in the rating of the most popular categories on Twitch. In November, broadcasts in this category accumulated 235.3 million Hours Watched, which is 4% fewer than a month earlier.
League of Legends took second place in the ranking: compared to October, its Hours Watched also decreased by 5%. Nevertheless, the category showed the best result by Peak Viewers, attracting 2.5 million people during the 2023 World Championship Grand Final.
Fortnite rounds out the Top 3 with 115.8 million Hours Watched. In October, the game had only 37.7 million HW and ranked tenth in the Top. This huge leap happened thanks to the start of the Fortnite OG season, where the developers brought back the original map.
Grand Theft Auto V went down one position. In the last month, the category accumulated 100.3 million Hours Watched: a significant number, but it is still fewer than it was in October.
World of Warcraft moved up from ninth to fifth place. Compared to October, the Hours Watched in this category increased from 39.3 million to 79.7 million, meaning it almost doubled. The reason for this progress is the Race To World First event, which was broadcast live. You can read more about RWF here.
The team-based shooter Valorant increased its Hours Watched on Twitch from 52 million to 63.3 million during the month, but the game still remained in sixth position in the ranking. Minecraft rose slightly from eighth to seventh place: the total Hours Watched of the sandbox increased by 15%.
Counter-Strike accumulated 43.2 million Hours Watched on Twitch in November, which is 28% fewer than in October. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is in ninth place, having an increase of almost 252% compared to the previous month. We should remind you that this game was released in mid-October, and November was the first full month for the shooter since its release. The Casino Jackpot category is in last place in the ranking with 33.3 million Hours Watched. It's a little more than Dota 2 category.
Most watched Twitch channels in November 2023
Most popular channels on Twitch - November 2023
Echo_Esports became the most-watched Twitch channel in November. During the month, it accumulated 9.3 million HW thanks to the broadcasts of Race To World First in World of Warcraft, where Echo guild was the first to defeat the final boss in the new raid of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.
Riot Games channel took second place with just over 8 million HW. The channel accumulated its viewership thanks to the broadcasts of the 2023 League of Legends World Championship. In October, when there were more matches, the channel ranked first with 13 million HW.
Brazilian streamer Gaules continues to demonstrate high audience reach on Twitch. In November, his channel accumulated 6.9 million HW, mainly thanks to round-the-clock broadcasts of Counter-Strike 2 tournaments.
Maximum, an American player and streamer for Team Liquid, who covered World of Warcraft's Race To World First on his channel, took fourth place. In November, one of the most popular streamers of the discipline accumulated 6.7 million HW.
Fifth place went to Spanish streamer ibai. Last month, he covered the 2023 World Championship games and even flew to the tournament in South Korea (from where he hosted several IRL streams). ibai also showed his team's matches at the Kingdom Cup tournament, the last event of the Kings League inaugural season.
Asmongold’s secondary channel — zackrawrrr — returned to the Top 10 with a result of 6.4 million HW. During the month, he covered BlizzCon 2023, actively streamed World of Warcraft, and also provided drops of the beta version of Zenless Zone Zero (a new game from Genshin Impact's creators).
American streamer Kai Cenat accumulated 6.2 million HW and moved to seventh place in the Twitch streamer ranking. It should be mentioned that in October, he had 12.5 million HW and third place in the Top.
Spanish streamer IlloJuan is in eighth place with 5.5 million HW. During November, he mainly streamed Just Chatting but also played Alan Wake II, CoD: MW III, DayZ, and other titles.
Papaplatte was actively streaming Fortnite, Minecraft, and Elden Ring in November. In addition, he also helped one of his viewers win £1 million in a charity game show. As a result, the German streamer racked up slightly more than 5.3 million HW over the month and took ninth place in the ranking.
Japanese streamer fantasista_jp rounded out the Top 10. His channel last month almost caught up with Papaplatte in terms of Hours Watched thanks to the Grand Theft Auto 5 broadcasts. Right now, the Japanese streamer is running a marathon on the GTA V RP server and has already made over 100 broadcasts.
Most watched Twitch streamers in November 2023
Most popular streamers on Twitch - November 2023
When it comes to the Top of streamers, it actually completely repeats the Top of channels (where the channels of organizations are included). Jynxzi, an American streamer, is in ninth place, accumulating about 4.4 million HW in November. This was thanks to his joint stream with Kai Cenat, where they played Rainbow Six Siege together. You can read more about that broadcast here.
British streamer Caedrel took tenth place in the ranking of Twitch streamers. It should be recalled that he was among the English-speaking community casters who covered the 2023 League of Legend World Championship. Thanks to the streaming of tournament matches, he accumulated 4.3 million HW.
Most watched female Twitch streamers in November 2023
Most popular female streamers on Twitch - November 2023
Emiru became the most popular female streamer on Twitch in November. Last month, her channel accumulated 1.7 million HW mainly thanks to her World of Warcraft broadcasts as well as streams from Wild West Ranch and OTK Valorant Invitational.
Second place goes to rivers_gg, the leader of the October ranking. In November, the Mexican female streamer racked up 1.4 million HW playing Minecraft, Fortnite and covering her team's games in Kings League.
Mira took third place with 1.2 million HW — that's about 20% more than she had in October. She mostly hosted broadcasts in the Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches.
Female VTubers akamikarubi, ironmouse, 2chamcham2, and lilpaaaaaaaa took fourth through seventh place. During the month, they mostly played a variety of different titles like Valorant, League of Legends, Lethal Company, and others. They racked up a very close number of HW.
Jinnytty is back in the Top 10 most popular female streamers with about 917K HW. She had a lot of IRL broadcasts in November, and she continues to share her travels with viewers. This time, she spent a few days in India and also visited Thailand.
Bagi and OLESYALIBERMAN rounded out the ranking of female streamers — they accumulated about 897K and 896K HW, respectively. The former mainly streamed Minecraft, while the latter had clearly explicit broadcasts in the Just Chatting section.
