Celebrating 10 years of events, TwitchCon returned to San Diego, California, for 2025. The event was held from October 17 to 19 at the usual San Diego Convention Center. Many streamers attended the event, streamed their in-person experiences of the convention, or even participated in events like Twitch Rivals. Streams Charts calculated the total viewership statistics of TwitchCon San Diego 2025, including viewership across all platforms.
The latest news from TwitchCon San Diego 2025, Twitch is continuing their moves into the mobile market, with dual format streaming for mobile coming into Beta testing. The purple platform is also bringing new updates to their Clips function and updating monetization options for streamers. There is also a co-streaming feature in the works, which will allow streamers to official tag themselves as co-streaming a broadcast.
For streams across livestreaming, but indeed largely taking place on Twitch, TwitchCon San Diego 2025 received over 7.2M Hours Watched. This marks an increase of almost 1M total hours watch time over last year, and many streamers and events at this year’s iteration were also highly popular, contributing to an overall success.
Most of TwitchCon San Diego’s viewership came from English-language broadcasts, naturally reflecting the large proportion of North American creators in attendance. Some international streamers did indeed attend the event, but the vast majority of content covering the North American convention was English-language.
Saturday, October 18, generated the most watch time for the TwitchCon weekend, with events such as various esports events taking place, community events, workshops, and more. Many streamers covered their view of the event and its activities from the exhibition grounds, attracting significant international attention for TwitchCon.
Peak viewership of TwitchCon San Diego 2025 esports events
The MC Championship at TwitchCon San Diego 2025 was the most popular event taking place at the 10th-anniversary weekend; the Minecraft championship tournament was watched by over 58,000 concurrent viewers at peak. The event far outperformed all other TwitchCon San Diego 2025 events, thanks to the eclectic collection of popular Minecraft streamers involved with the tournament — English content creator Grian was the most popular streamer involved with the event.
The next-most popular event was The Milk Cup 2025: Finals, a women’s Fortnite event with a $210K prize pool up for grabs. The ultimate winning duo, Nina "ilyynina" Fernandez and Vader, took home $78K, and with 36.9K Peak Viewers, it landed at the bottom ranks of the top 10 most popular female esports tournaments of 2025. These two tournaments were markedly popular than the other events of the weekend — Marvel Rivals at TwitchCon San Diego 2025, Sajam Slam at TwitchCon San Diego 2025, and Operation: Map Breakers ft. GeoGuessr at TwitchCon San Diego 2025.
In terms of the top streamers for TwitchCon San Diego 2025, Jason “jasontheween” Nguyen was the top creator in both total watch time and peak concurrent viewership. Jason earned over 595K Hours Watched for his TwitchCon San Diego streams, and reached over 74K Peak Viewers in a special event where he skydived to TwitchCon.
Jason and other FaZe streamers dominated the top of the rankings here. FaZe filled out the top three places with YourRageGaming and Rani “StableRonaldo” Netz, and Jerry “Silky” Woo and Nick “Lacy” Fosco also made appearances with strong results.
Most popular and most watched TwitchCon San Diego 2025 streamers
In unfortunate news, Emily “Emiru” Schunk received 44.9K Peak Viewers while discussing a public assault which occured at a TwitchCon meet and greet. Emiru was assaulted by a man who tried to forcibly kiss her, and later elaborated on stream how she was unhappy with Twitch’s security for the event and the lack of support offered by those alerted to the situation. The story made headlines across the world and sparked discussions of the feasibility of this kind of events in the future.
TwitchCon San Diego 2025 was watched for millions of hours watch time across a weekend of countless in-person events and activities. Coverage for the convention remained strong, even increasing over last year, although security concerns from streamers could influence the future of the event unless something changes.
