The shortest month of 2022 has come to an end, which means it's time to summarize its results. In the new article, Streams Charts provides the overview of the most popular categories, channels, and streams of February on Twitch, as well as highlights the most viewed clip of the month.
Most popular categories in February 2022
Twitch's most popular category, Just Chatting, decreased by 13% in Hours Watched compared to January. This is partly because February has only 28 days rather than 31; this very factor also affected the performance of other categories of the platform, causing Just Chatting to once again take the lead by a wide margin.
Holding the second spot with a result of 137.72M Hours Watched is Lost Ark. The English-language version of this MMOARPG was released on February 8, and for several days it was in the Twitch top both in terms of Hours Watched and Peak Viewers. Learn more about the impressive performance of Lost Ark in our article.
Yet another new title of February was the Elden Ring, released on February 25. In just a few days, this RPG managed to collect more than 59.4M Hours Watched on Twitch and took the eighth spot in the top. And this is given that in February, the game’s time to shine was limited to a few days: otherwise, the result could have been much more impressive given that Elden Ring attracted the attention of almost every popular streamer.
Valorant and Apex Legends retained their fifth and seventh spots in the top. At the same time, the Riot Games’ shooter increased its Hours Watched by 1% thanks to the popular streamers and broadcasts of esports tournaments, while the similar indicator of the EA’s battle royale dropped by 3%.
CS:GO climbed to the sixth spot with a 63% increase in Hours Watched over the month. The reason for this was the full-fledged start of the esports season. It should be noted that IEM Katowice 2022, which was held in February, became the most popular non-major event in the history of the discipline.
Call of Duty: Warzone Hours Watched dropped by 20%, but other categories suffered even larger drops, allowing the battle royale to rank tenth.
Leaving the top 10 categories on Twitch in February were FIFA 22 and Escape From Tarkov, the latter losing its audience after the end of the New Year's events. Also dropping from the top 10 were Rust and Minecraft, which were popular in January thanks to the streams on RP servers.
Most popular channels of February 2022
The most popular Twitch streamer in February (even including organizational channels) was once again xQc. Viewers spent 20.45M hours on his broadcasts, which is 15% less than in January. The streamer spent most of his time playing on GTA Online RP servers.
The Fextralife gaming community turned out to be the most popular among the organizational ones and the second in the overall standings, having collected 20.15M Hours Watched during the month due to broadcasts of Lost Ark. Compared to January, the growth of this indicator amounted to more than 560%. One of the prominent reasons for this ludicrous audience growth was due to Twitch Drops in Lost Ark. Also the Fextralife channel broke its own Peak Viewers record by gathering 255K Peak Viewers on the broadcast in February.
It is curious that for the first time in a long while, a girl (albeit a virtual one) entered the top 10 non-organizational Twitch channels. In February, a VTube streamer ironmouse collected 7.15M Hours Watched and took the eighth spot in the ranking. The identity of the user behind the girl's 2D avatar remains unknown at the time of publication.
One of the Spanish-speaking Twitch stars Elxokas, who was holding the second spot in January, lost 52% of the total Hours Watched over the past month and fell to the tenth spot in the ranking of non-organizational channels.
In February, Asmongold returned to streaming on his main channel and dedicated most of his time to streaming Lost Ark. This allowed him to get into the top 2 non-organizational channels as well as take the third spot in the overall standings with a result of 18.28M Hours Watched.
Trainwreckstv, the most popular streamer when it comes to gambling, retained his fourth spot in the ranking without organizational channels and took the sixth spot in the overall standings.
The political streamer HasanAbi climbed two spots in the ranking (taking the sixth spot) and collected 8.62M Hours Watched by discussing the tragic events in Ukraine.
In February, another gambling streamer, known as ROSHTEIN, broke into the top 10. Viewers spent just over 8M hours on its broadcasts, which is 141% more than in January.
Most popular female streamers of February 2022
Amouranth held the title of the most-watched streamer on Twitch for many months, but in February, she was surpassed by ironmouse in terms of Hours Watched by as much as 175%.
Pokimane and dda_ju (the closest pursuers of Amouranth in January) dropped by two positions each, moving to the 4th and 5th spots, respectively. In turn, their previous spots were taken by fuslie and Beryl, who improved their performance by 40% and 462%, respectively.
Most popular broadcasts of February 2022
The ranking includes a single most successful broadcast per channel
The broadcast of the IEM Katowice 2022 Grand Final between FaZe Clan and G2 Esports on the ESL_CSGO channel collected 583.79K Peak Viewers. It is worth noting that entering the top 10 by Peak Viewers were three channels broadcasting this tournament at once. Meanwhile, the League of Legends esports discipline is represented only by the LCK_Korea channel, which gathered more than 220K Peak Viewers.
Holding the second spot in terms of Peak Viewers in February was the announcement of the second boxing tournament “Evening of the Year” from ibai, which will take place on the evening of June 26. It should be reminded that the first event was held in May 2021 and gathered more than 1.5M Peak Viewers, making Ibay Llanos the second-ranked streamer in terms of this indicator in the history of Twitch.
The third most popular broadcast in February was that of Asmongold on the day of the official release of the English version of Lost Ark. On February 11, his channel gathered more than 430K Peak Viewers.
Most viewed clip in February 2022
The most popular video in February, gathering 320K views, was the moment from the broadcast of ekatze007, the girlfriend of buster who is one of the most famous Russian-speaking streamers. In this clip, several girls wearing tight pants are doing physical exercises. The name of the video "TOP 1 OPERATOR 'BEST JOB'" speaks for itself.
