Twitch: most followed channels 2024

As of June 2024, ninja (real name: Richard Tyler Blevins) was the most followed live streamer on Twitch with over 19.05 million followers. Ninja saw a meteoric rise to fame when he was one of the first top-ranked players to stream the then newly-release Fortnite Battle Royale at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018. Second-ranked auronplay (real name: Raúl Álvarez Genes) was ranked second with 16.37 million followers on Twitch.

The top games on Twitch

Despite being released way back in 2013, GTA V is still among the most popular games on Twitch. The action adventure classic accounted for 5.5 percent of total hours watched on the platform in December 2023. In contrast, the most popular game on Twitch in terms of average number of channels was Fortnite - the battle royale title had 5,373 channels streaming the game in October 2023. Other top ranked games include Valorant, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

Twitch - how it all began

Founded in 2011, Twitch was initially launched as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv. The site primarily focuses on video gaming, including play through of video games, broadcasts of e-sports competitions, and more recently, creative content. Twitch Creative, the outlet for creative content, was launched on October 28, 2015. The launch included a marathon of Bob Ross ' "The Joy of Painting". Some of the most popular channels on Twitch are owned by YouTube gaming personalities who are taking advantage of the website’s live streaming capabilities in order to interact more with their audiences. Users are able to participate in a live chat during video broadcast, with broadcasters frequently reacting to and replying to comments and questions from the chat in real time. In August 2014, Twitch was acquired by Amazon for 970 million U.S. dollars. It was the company’s fifth most expensive acquisition of all time.