Some headlines from the recap;
Twitch had a great year in 2018 and was able to break a record with 4,015,590 concurrent viewers on August 25, 2018 which is a huge increase from a last year's record of 2,362,523 concurrent viewers. This was part thanks to gamescom 2018.
Twitch had a very interesting and unforgettable year. It was full of firsts for the whole platform. Records after records broken and unexpected new heights were reached.
E3 2018 was the highest watched game category in 2018 with 1,792,107 concurrent viewers which is a record for Twitch. Fortnite was close second with 1,503,240 viewers.
The most watched channel/streamer was eleaguetv with 1,130,760 concurrent viewers which is an increase from a last year's 1,025,493 viewers.
This year We had some crazy competiton and numbers for the most watched(highest peak concurrent viewers) single streamer. Before this year, the highest viewers count for a single streamer was Faker in 2017 with 213k viewers. However, this year We had so many streamers pass this easily.
The comeback of of the 2 most hyped streamers tyler and doc broke records back to back with 381k and 365k viewers respectively at the start of the year.
However streamer of the year Ninja destroyed these records by miles with 627,784 concurrent viewers when He duo streamed with musician Drake on March 15, 2018. This is a number that will be very hard to beat.
We have seen over 1,091,404 active Streamers on Twitch. These Streamers streamed total of 29,552 different games.
Twitch had an amazing growth in 2018. A lot of exposure increased viewership and streamer numbers. On Average Twitch had 1,070,285 viewers which is a 43% increase from a previous year's 746,462 viewers and average channels of 41,151 compared to last year's 24,691 channels.
Twitch also introduced a new partnership program called affiliate this year that helped smaller streamers to have subscribers. This helped streamer's and Twitch growth. In 2018, there were total of 27k partners and 250k affiliates.
Twitch also introduced another feature called sub gifting with huge succes and helped a lot of streamers, big or small with their sub count.
Most popular games of 2018; Fortnite, League of Legends, Dota 2 and IRL.
The games that gained most viewers are; Fortnite with 136k avg viewer gain, IRL(Just Chatting) with 40k, COD 4 with 32k.
The games that lost most viewers are; PUBG with 21k avg viewer loss, Hearthstone with 10k and H1Z1 with 9k. PUGB is an interesting one as it was the game with most viewer gained lastyear and it lost quite a bit of popularity mostly due Fortnite.
Streamer of the year is undoubtedly Ninja as He has broken every record on Twitch. He had the most incredible growth that has ever seen. He has reached unimaginable new numbers. Ninja had 78k average viewers in 2018 with 13 million followers and 353 million channel views.
Ninja's incredible growth was followed by another huge success in 2018, Shroud. Shroud had an average of 34k viewers in 2018 and 5 million followers and 171 million channel views. Third on the list is Sodapoppin who had his best year yet with 69 million channel views.
Ninja also had the most ever subscribers on Twitch with about 264k subscribers in March 2018. This was an unimaginable amount as in 2017 30k was the most ever seen. We also had a lot of streamers pass 20k mark and few reach over 40k thanks to twitch prime.
Newcomers of 2018;
Looks like gaules is the most successful newcomer of 2018. Not only he has had 29 million views in 2018, he also gained 400k new followers. Second on the list is loeya with 13 million channel views followed by ass_dave with 11 million views, fedmyster with 7 million views and berry0314 with 6 million views.
For a tournament and company channels. overwatchleague is the most watched channel in 2018 with 130 million views. Followed in second We have fextralife with 51 million views. Behind these lck_korea has 48 million views and nba2kleague has 25 million views.
Most popular tournament/company channels of 2018; shadbasemurdertv (297 mil views), riotgames (137 mil views), overwatchleague (130 mil views)
Most watched streamers in 2018, ninja (353 mil views), shroud (171 mil views), sodapoppin (69 mil views), tfu (67 mil views), summit1g (66 mil views), drdisrespect (64 mil views)
Streamers who gained the most followers in 2018; ninja (12 mil), tfu (4 mil), shroud (3 mil), dakotaz (2.8 mil), drlupo (2.7 mil), pokimane (1.9 mil)