Recently, Streams Charts named the most popular streamer communities on Twitch in August 2021, and now it's time to take stock of the entire summer on the platform. We tell you which categories were in the greatest demand on the site in the last three months and which of the content makers demonstrated the best viewer activity.
Twitch Totals in Summer 2021
Compared to the spring, Twitch's indicators fell in the summer period. In total, the platform generated almost 5.9 billion Hours Watched during June, July and August. In the summer, the average number of viewers of the service also decreased by 12% (to 2.67M people).
Top Twitch Categories in Summer 2021
The most popular category on Twitch in the summer of 2021 was Just Chatting. In three months, Just Chatting got 740M Hours Watched. Over the summer, the average number of viewers in the category was 336.2K, and the average number of channels was 4.4K.
Just Chatting has dominated Twitch for more than a year. The last time the category yielded in terms of Hours Watched was in April 2020, when it collected 141.6M hours, and the Valorant that provoked the furor — 344.4M.
The most popular game category for the summer 2021 was GTA V — 456M HW. Despite the second place in the overall ranking, the game from Rockstar Games is inferior to Just Chatting by almost 40% in terms of Hours Watched over the summer. The average number of viewers of the category on Twitch was 207.3K, and the average number of channels — 3K. At the peak, 607.4K people watched the broadcasts of the game.
Such popularity of the title, which was released back in 2013, is due to the high interest of gamers in RP servers, where streamers actively create content.
The third and fourth places were taken by two games from Riot Games — League of Legends and Valorant. In the summer, MOBA collected 418.8M Hours Watched with an average of 190.3K viewers, and shooter — 238M HW (43.2% less) with 108.3K viewers on average.
Read: League of Legends Summer Split Viewers Statistics 2021
Fortnite is also in the top 5 popular categories with 217.5M Hours Watched. Despite the absence of major tournaments, Battle Royale got the highest Peak Viewers on its broadcasts (1M) in the ranking. Battle Royale from Epic Games also became the most popular game category by Peak Viewers over the summer.
Fastest Growing Categories on Twitch in Summer 2021
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online stood out among the categories that increased Hours Watched the most. In the spring, the game scored only 10.9M Hours Watched, but in the summer this figure increased almost fivefold to 51M Hours Watched.
The popularity of FINAL FANTASY XIV Online was largely influenced by the popular American streamer Asmongold, whose channel currently has more than 2.3M followers. A month before his first broadcast, held on July 3, the game's HW on Twitch was 5.2M, but thanks to the content maker, the figure increased to 24.7M in four weeks.
Read: How Final Fantasy XIV Online became one of Twitch’s most popular titles thanks to Asmongold
The second place went to New World, which reached 38.6M HW and showed a huge increase compared to the spring, when the game generated only 48.9K HW (789 times less).
The third place went to the Special Events category — a special section for large events. In the summer, it included broadcasts of E3, Gamescom and Summer Game Fest. In June, July and August, the category gained a total of 44.1M HW, and in the spring — 17.8M (59.6% less).
The fourth place was taken by Pokémon Unite, which showed the greatest growth in the ranking compared to the spring. That time it generated only 7.3K HW, and in the summer —24.9M (3410 times more).
In fifth place is World of Warcraft, which scored the highest Hours Watched in the ranking — 119.7M HW in the summer against 97M in the spring (19% less). The growth is driven by the release of a major The Burning Crusade Classic update for the game on June 1.
Top Twitch Streamers in Summer 2021
XQcOW became the leader among the most popular streamers of the summer on Twitch with 54.9M Hours Watched and 64.6K viewers on average. For three months, he spent 850 hours on the air, and most often broadcast GTA V and Just Chatting.
The second position in the ranking was taken by the Brazilian esports commentator Gaules. In June, he became the first streamer to receive official rights to broadcast NBA matches on Twitch.
Gaules was on the air for 2,175 hours (1,325 hours longer than xQcOW), but got 36.6M Hours Watched (33.3% less than xQcOW). He is followed by loud_coringa, who generated 31.5M Hours Watched in 447 hours on broadcasts in the summer.
The top 5 most viewed streamers of the summer also included Asmongold and auronplay with 29.8M and 26.3M Hours Watched. Among the top five, these streamers have the highest number of viewers on average — 66.5K and 94K people.
Top Twitch Female Streamers in Summer 2021
Talking about the girls, Amouranth became the undisputed leader with 11.8M Hours Watched and an average of 12.1K viewers online. In June Caitlin received a ban on Twitch, which lasted three days, but it had almost no effect on her viewer statistics.
Most HW Amouranth received in ASMR. This category brought her 7.2M hours. Pools, Hot Tubes, and Beaches and Just Chatting are in second and third places with 2.3M and 1.7M Hours Watched.
The second place went to the Korean Saddummy with 5.75M HW. The top 5 also includes pokimane, Jinnytty and RevedTV, who scored 3.9M, 3.9M and 3.7M Hours Watched , respectively. Despite almost identical results, it took pokimane only 189 hours to gain such an indicator, and the rest of the streamers — 673 and 508 hours.
Top 5 Twitch Streamers in Summer 2021 by Followers Gain
XQcOW became the leader in terms of the number of new followers gained in the summer of 2021. In June, July and August, the streamer reached 3.4M followers — almost a third of all his Twitch total followers (9.2M people).
The remaining places in the top 5 were taken by ibai, ElMariana, Indiefoxx and Amouranth. In the summer, streamers gained almost the same number of new followers — 1.4M, 1.3M, 1.25M and 1.2M followers, respectively.
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