Ninja, the Twitch anamoly
I am guessing everyone knows who Ninja is by know. However, Ninja is not a new streamer, in fact He has been around for a while now. He has been streaming on Twitch for about 7 years. He was known in Twitch mostly as a Halo pro player and He also played quite a bit H1Z1.
Account creating date for Ninja is January 15, 2011 and his oldest subscriber is tripolar which has been a sub for 79 Months as of March, 2018. That comes to 6 years and 7 months of being sub to Ninja, one of oldest record We have.
Although, Ninja has been streaming on Twitch for a long time. He only recently became the center of all attention. Until few months ago, Ninja had very moderate channel on Twitch. Our record goes as old as 2015 so If we look at the Twitch Stats of Ninja from 2015 We can see that He has grown quite a bit. Here are few stats of Ninja year by year;
| Year | Average Viewers | Highest Viewers | Followers (end) | Total Views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 999 (805th) | 5,413 (714th) | 149,833 (287th) | 17,648,210 (178th) |
| 2016 | 1,319 (3459th) | 11,278 (767th) | 254,655 (278th) | 21,431,372 (212nd) |
| 2017 | 5,511 (305th) | 24,960 (362nd) | 867,332 (43rd) | 42,743,999 (122nd) |
All of this changed, very fast when a battle royal game Fortnite became playable on Twitch at the end of September 2017. Ninja started streaming Fortnite on October 3, 2017 and since than steadily increased his viewers and popularity. Here is a monthly average viewer numbers for Ninja while playing Fortnite;
| Oct, 2017 | Nov, 2017 | Dec, 2017 | Jan, 2018 | Feb, 2018 | March, 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,310 | 9,158 (45%  ) |
13,480 (47% ) |
26,284 (95% ) |
46,998 (78% ) |
87,998 (87% ) |
As it can be seen clearly. The growth of Ninja is most impressive. His real exposure happened with the start of 2018 and since than He has been growing exponentially. His average viewer numbers almost doubles each month compared to previous month. This kind of growth has never been seen on Twitch.
Ninja's increase is not only limited to his viewer count. Ninja not only had an incredible and unseen growth on Twitch but He also broke all records in a span of few months. Another feat that will be extremely difficult to topple. Let's take a look at the records Ninjas has broken so far...
Probably, the biggest and most sought after record Ninja broke was the subscriber count. Not only He broke the record for most subscriber count for a single streamer but He also broke all time record as well.
Prior to Ninja, shroud had 35k subscribers in September 2017 and that was the record, loltyler1 had reached 33k and drdisrespectlive had reached 52k in February 2018 (tho he was still below Ninja at the time). Geekandsundry, a special show channel, hold the record for all time subscriber count on Twitch with 105k subscribers on January 2018.
At the righting of this, Ninja has 188k subscribers and raising daily. Here is daily subscriber numbers for Ninja;
Another record Ninja broke and still increasing everyday is Followers count. Follower count has always been one of the most important stats on Twitch. Until recently the streamer with the most followers was Syndicate whom no longer streamed on Twitch regularly.
In 2017, Summit1g was able to overthrow him and took the title as the most followed streamer on Twitch which He was competing with riotgames for a while now. However, as popularity of Ninja skyrocketed, He surpassed them all and claimed the title for himself extremely fast.
Ninja, had only about 870k followers at the end of 2017 which is only 3 months ago and now He has over 3.5 million followers and growing everyday. He was also the first streamer ever to pass 3 million followers count which was expected to be broken by Summit1g. Below you can see the daily followers gain for Ninja in 2018...
Finally, We are going to look at the Highest Concurrent Viewers record Ninja has broken. This is a topic that was heavily debated last month when loltyler1 and drdisrespectlive had a battle of who had a bigger comeback and which one broke the record for highest viewers which was covered by another analysys that I wrote. The winner of that debate and ex-record holder was loltyler1 with 381,510 concurrent viewers and followed very closely by drdisrespectlive with 365,132.
However, Ninja had broken this record with ease and by a huge margin. Ninja had
However, all time Highest concurrent viewers for any Twitch channel was still out of reach for Ninja as the current record holder eleaguetv had 1,130,760 concurrent viewers in January 2018. Ninja's accomplisment is still a huge one and one that will not be broken easily soon.
Ninja and Drake duo stream viewership data...
I have called Ninja a Twitch anomaly because We have never seen anything like that ever before. Reaching heights most people did not think was possible. The growth Ninja shown is an anomaly, and most likely won't happen again until We encounter another anomaly. For now, All we have to do is sit back and enjoy the ride and see where this crazy hype train will go.All this also helps Twitch grow quite a bit. Twitch global average viewership has risen from 750k in 2017 to 950k in 2018 so far. Hope this was interesting to read.