Some headlines from the recap;
Twitch had its best year yet. Doubling the amount of average viewers from previous year of 2022 with 1,256,057 average viewers to 2,119,908 average viewers in 2020. This is a huge 69% increase. Average online Streamer numbers were also increased from 49,438 in 2019 to 87,695 in 2020, which is a 77% percent increase. Mixer shutting down should have a slight impact on streamer numbers.
Twitch also had its concurrent highest viewers number record broken on June 11, 2020 with 6,054,168 viewers, compared to previous record of 3,492,264 that happened in 2019, a 73% increase. Sony PS5 unveiling was a big contributor. Twitch also had 234,126 channels streaming concurrently on December 1st, 2020, also a record from previous year of 125,850.
Special Events was the highest watched game category in 2020 with 3,051,770 concurrent viewers on June 11th, which is a new record for Twitch. Fortnite was close second with 2,275,727 viewers on January 18th, which is also a record for Fornite and second most for Twitch. League of Legends was third on the list with 2,044,803 concurrent viewers, also a record for League of Legends and third most for Twitch all times.
The most watched channel/streamer was Playstation with 993,630 concurrent viewers with PS5 unveiling. Second was Riotgames with 669,912. Another year without eleaguetv major.
This year's peak concurrent viewership for single streamers was Thegrefg with 538,444 concurrent viewers, followed by Ibai with 533,239 and shroud comeback with 487,727 concurrent viewers. A good honorable mention is NASA SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with 392,939 people watching.
We have seen over 718,695 active Streamers on Twitch in 2020. These Streamers streamed total of 30,483 different games.
Recap of Games;
This year We had a first on Twitch. A category that is not a game has the top spot for the first time on Twitch's history. Unstoppable rise of Just Chatting has finally reached the top point and is the 'game' of the year of 2020. Just Chatting was the most watched game on Twitch in 2020 with 227,427 Average Viewers which is an astonishing increase of 162% from previous year of 86,759. Twitch actually know what they are doing.
Second most watched game was the old king League of Legends with 176,977 Average Viewers, a 39% increase from 127,570 average viewers in 2019. Third place is Fortnite which had Average Viewers of 121,526 which is almost same as last year's 120,294.
Valorant had a great launch and took the forth spot immediately with 118,072 average viewers in 2020. Most successful new game of the year. GTA V had a 42% increase to its average viewers from 66,132 of 2019 to 93,804 in 2020. CS:GO also had a 55% increase from last year's 52,317 to 81,296 average viewers. Lastly, Minecraft had a 58,177 average viewers in 2020 a 187% increase from 2019's 20,282 average viewers.
The game that lost the most viewers is Pokemon Sword/Shield with 20k drop in average viewers, a 80% drop. Second game is Teamfight Tactics that dropped from 37k to 19k average viewers, almost 50% drop.
Overwatch continues to lose blood. It lost 13k average viewers and had a 19k average viewers in 2020, a 40% drop from 2019's 32k average viewers. Another game that continues to drop is PUBG. PUBG lost 10k average viewers and had 18k average viewers in 2020 compared to previous year's 28k.
COD:BO4 had a dramatic drop from 11k to 1.8k average viewers. Apex Legends also had a drop of 7k average viewers and had 36k average viewers in 2020.
Let's take a look at the streamers.
Rubius was the best streamer in 2020. He had an average viewers of 57,021 and gained 4.7mil new followers with 88mil channel views.
Second streamer on the list was Asmongold with 43k average viewers, third one Ibai with 43k average viewers and forth is Xqcow with 41k average viewers.
fextralife gained the most channel views this year with 723mil channel views which made fextralife the second channel ever to pass over 1 billion all time total channel views after riotgames. In total fextralife has over 1.2 billion channel views which is extremely close to the riotgames and might pass them this year.
Other popular tournament/company channels of 2020; esl_csgo (128 mil views), insomniac_events (115 mil views), saddota2tv (114 mil views)
Most watched streamers in 2020, hgmony (155 mil views), shroud (110 mil views), gaules (137mil views), xqcow (134mil views), ibai(116mil views), summit1g (95 mil views)
Streamers who gained the most followers in 2019; xqcow (5.4 mil), auronplay (5.1 mil), rubius (4.7 mil), ricegum (4.4 mil), thegrefg (4.2 mil), ibai (4.1 mil) and sodapoppin (3.3 mil)
Newcomers of 2020;
Biggest newcomer of 2020 is slakun10. He started streaming in April 2020 and was able to reach 2,840,234 followers and 11,076,732 channel views with about 20k average viewers. Second on this list dreamwastaken with 6,096,553 channel views and 2,187,892 followers. Third is georgenotfound with 1,931,819 followers and 7,478,661 channel views.
Best streamers of 2020;
| Streamer | Average Viewers |
| rubis | 57,021 |
| asmongold | 43,307 |
| ibai | 42,801 |
| xqcow | 40,552 |
| theralknossi | 40,368 |
| thegrefg | 38,396 |
| montanablack88 | 36,555 |
| nickmercs | 34,659 |
In 2020, gaules was the channel with most clips created. Gaules had 59k clips created, xqcow had 41k clips created, esl_csgo had 29k clips created, summit1g had 23k clips created and loltyler1 had 22k clips created.
From the game categories, Fortnite had the most clip created with 1.3mil clips created. Second game is Valorant with 1.1mil clips created and third is GTA V with 1.1mil clips created, forth is LoL with 1.1mil clips created.
Twitch users who created the most clips are, jack_the_ripper is at the top with 20k clips created, followed by cshighlights with 13k clips created and dragonnavy with 3k clips created.