December 2022 saw many interesting events that were actively covered on Twitch: The Game Awards and Coscu Army Awards, the Race to World First in World of Warcraft, the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and other events. At the same time, esports had a drop in audience reach — CS:GO fell out of the Top most watched disciplines, and Gaules was not included in the Top 10 most watched streamers on the platform for the first time in a long time. On the other hand, Call of Duty League has returned to Twitch! These and other monthly totals are in the Streams Charts article.
Most Watched Categories in December 2022
Just Chatting became the most watched category on Twitch by a wide margin. It accumulated 260.6 million Hours Watched in December, 4% more than the month before. In addition, the Peak Viewers number grew from 800K to slightly over 1 million.
GTA V retains its second place in the ranking, accumulating 98.2 million Hours Watched (-4.5%) in the last month of the year. The Peak Viewers number decreased by 31.5%.
World of Warcraft moved up from ninth to third place. In December, the iconic MMORPG accumulated 74.9 million HW and drew 314K PV. In comparison with November, the PV number fell by more than half, but thanks to the broadcasts of Race to World First the number of Hours Watched increased by 30 million.
There was an off-season lull in the League of Legends professional scene in December. In a month, the game's Twitch category racked up 70.8 million HW (-26%) and drew 226K PV.
Valorant retains fifth place without a significant drop in metrics with 65 million HW (-6%) and 243K PV (-15%). The tactical shooter Call of Duty: Warzone accumulated 51.9 million HW in December (the same number it had at the end of November). At the same time, the PV number of the category decreased from 619K (at the time of the Warzone 2.0 release) to 171K viewers.
Fortnite returned to the Top 10 of the ranking after a brief absence. In December, the Battle Royale category on Twitch accumulated 48.4 million HW and attracted 1.1 million PV. This online was achieved thanks to the in-game event Fracture, which started the fourth chapter in Fortnite. At that time, an updated map was shown, as well as cameos of the witcher Geralt, the Hulk and the blogger MrBeast.
Overwatch 2 dropped from seventh to eighth place in the ranking. In the last month of 2022, the game racked up 43.4 million HW and drew 223K PV.
Escape From Tarkov is in ninth place with 40.2 million HW and 538K PV. This audience reach was achieved thanks to the pre-New Year event from the developers, during which Twitch viewers could get drops of weapons, equipment and other in-game items in Escape From Tarkov for watching the game streams. The event itself started on December 29 and will run until January 7.
The last place in the Top is taken by Apex Legends — 34 million HW and 295K PV. It should be noted that CS:GO, Minecraft and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II were not included in the December ranking compared to November.
Most Watched Channels in December 2022
xQc became the most watched streamer on Twitch in December — the Canadian content creator accumulated 12.3 million HW over the month, 14% fewer from November. The Brazilian streamer casimito moved up to number two from number four, although his channel had 18% fewer HW in the last month.
The Australian streamer Pestily takes third place in the Top thanks to his Escape From Tarkov broadcasts. In December, his channel got almost 8 million HW thanks to Twitch Drops, as well as numerous giveaways among the channel's viewers.
KaiCenat dropped out of the Top 3. In the last month of 2022, its channel had 7.5 million HW, while in November, the number was 12.9 million. Summit1g rounds out the Top 5 with 6.9 million HW. It should be recalled that at the end of November he had 6.1 million HW and was only ninth in the Top.
Ibai had 80 hours of Airtime in December (the smallest result in the Top 10) but in that time he reached more than 6.8 million HW (+10%). HasanAbi is in seventh place with 6.6 million HW (-6%).
The Korean streamer handongsuk unexpectedly broke into the Top 10 thanks to Project Zomboid and League of Legends broadcasts. Last month, his channel accumulated 5.8 million HW.
It should be noted that the updated ranking does not include the Brazilian streamer Gaules, which ranked first in November. He didn't host many CS:GO tournaments broadcasts in December, instead he entertained his audience with let's-plays on various games, such as Ark: Survival Evolved, FIFA 23, Night of the Dead, Sea of Thieves and other titles.
If we had taken into account the overall results of the channels of organizations and tournament operators, Echo_Esports would have taken fourth place with 7.7 million HW thanks to the Race to World First in World of Warcraft broadcasts.
The official English-language channel Call of Duty, which in December hosted the first Major of the new CDL season, is in sixth place with 7.1 million HW. The speedrunners event RTA in Japan Winter 2022 with 6.8 million HW is also in the Top 10.
Most Watched Female Streamers in December 2022
Amouranth, the queen of the Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches category, retains her lead as the most watched streamer of the month. Her channel had 2.1 million HW in December, 18% fewer from November.
39daph moved up from fourth place to second with 1.5 million HW (+50%) in the last month of 2022. Her RimWorld and Genshin Impact streams helped her increase her audience reach.
The Korean female streamer saddummy is in third place with 1.25 million HW, 20% more than she had in November. The broadcasts of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and World of Warcraft, as well as broadcasts in the Just Chatting category helped her to build and keep her audience.
Ironmouse and rivers_gg are also in the Top 5 of the December ranking, lagging slightly behind saddummy with 1.25 million and 1.23 million HW, respectively, in December, mostly because of the interaction with viewers in the Just Chatting category.
The rest of the places in the Top by Hours Watched are taken by viichan6 (1.09 million HW), Jinnytty (1.05 million HW), Kyedae (1.03 million HW), Nadia (937K HW) and Faith (884K HW). However, viichan6 and Jinnytty usually streamed in Just Chatting, Kaedae played Valorant, and Nadia played Call of Duty: Warzone. As for Faith, the female streamer mostly had ASMR broadcasts.
Most Popular Broadcasts in December 2022
The Game Awards 2022 broadcast, where the eponymous game awards were given and the new games of the coming years were announced, became the leader by Peak Viewers on Twitch in December 2022. Its official English-language channel was watched by more than 573K PV.
ibai's New Year's Eve broadcast, hosted right on the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, is second in the ranking. The Spanish streamer summed up the results of the year, talked to the invited guests and congratulated the visiting fans on the New Year holidays. In total, his evening broadcast on December 31 attracted 448K PV.
The Brazilian streamer casimito's broadcast of the match between Brazil and Croatia at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar is in third place. This broadcast was watched by 353.9K PV.
The Argentine football player Sergio Agüero, who ended his sports career in 2021 because of heart problems and shifted to streaming, takes fourth place in the Top. He reached more than 247.5K PV on his channel SLAKUN10 on December 7, all of whom came to watch his interview with Lionel Messi.
Broadcasts by Pestily and LVNDMARK made it into the Top 10 thanks to a giveaway of drops in Escape From Tarkov — they drew 224.5K and 163K PV, respectively. The French streamer aminematue takes sixth place in the ranking — his live show on December 21 was watched by 212K PV.
The Argentinean streamer coscu ranked seventh with 203.5K PV. The broadcast of Coscu Army Awards 2022, an annual event to celebrate the achievements of Argentinean content creators over the year, helped him gather this audience: they determine the best streamers in various categories, the most popular clips or moments of broadcasts, etc.
AdinRoss takes eighth place in the ranking with 181.9K PV — the audience he managed to collect thanks to the broadcast with the scandalous former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate.
The official broadcast of the new Call of Duty League tournament season gathered 164.4K PV. This result allowed it to consolidate itself in ninth place of the ranking.
Most Viewed Clip in December 2022
The moment from the official broadcast channel Echo_Esports, where the guild of the same name participated in the Race to World First in World of Warcraft, became the most popular clip of December 2022. It received almost 500K views.
The clip went viral after it captured the moment when commentator Richard Campbell found out about the allegations of sexual harassment against him. After that, he left the studio.
