List: The most popular streamers on Twitch

The live streaming market, be it games, variety or the so-called “real life”, is a multibillion-dollar market and everyone wants a slice of it. And on Twitch, the largest live streaming platform today, some streamers manage to capture a large chunk of this industry, being the most popular on the platform.

With more than 17 million active channels, standing out on Twitch can be a difficult but not impossible task, and small and medium streamers can take a lot of inspiration from the strategies of the big names on the Amazon’s live streaming platform.

How to measure popularity on Twitch

As a video channel platform, it’s obvious that the number of followers is one of the key metrics in determining a streamer’s success. But Twitch isn’t just about that.

After all, it’s not enough to be followed by many, you have to be watched by many. The streamer may not be as followed, but achieve large viewership numbers, whether on average or at the channel’s peak number of viewers.

And, as we already know, it’s not enough to have good content on Twitch, you have to work with all the other social networks available to grow your live streaming channel.

The biggest streamers on Twitch

With all this in mind, it is easy to see who the biggest streamers on Twitch are, whether in terms of number of followers or the peak audience of their channels. And in this, English and Spanish channels dominate.

According to data from the website StreamsCharts, the biggest Twitch streamers in terms of number of followers are:

Ninja Streamer — Ninja is Twitch’s most followed streamer.

Ninja – 18.595.015
Auronplay – 15.647.659
Ibai – 15.131.454
Rubius – 14.536.554
xQc – 11.928.653
TheGrefg – 11.571.639
Tfue – 11.413.521
Juansguarnizo – 11.060.367
Shroud – 10.678.819
Pokimane – 9.363.093

Like every social network, the mantra of Twitch users is also: followers do not always convert into viewers. And therefore, the Top 10 of the biggest streamers on the platform changes a little when we talk about Peak Viewers.

Here’s the ranking: