Report March Twitch 2b Wildegeekwire Was Twitch’s Biggest Month to Date, With 2b+ Hours Watched, Helped by “sleep Streaming,” Where Popular Streamers Film Themselves While Sleeping

Report March Twitch 2b Wildegeekwire was Twitch’s biggest month in history to date, with 2b+ hours watched over the course of the month. Hours watched were up 20% on average, with “sleep streaming” being one of the main drivers of this growth. This is a continuation of February’s record-breaking month, which was 328% bigger than January’s and 454% greater than December 2018.

The average viewer watched during the month was watching for 58 minutes every day, with that number also growing. Twitch’s audience is growing, as in each of the last several months, but minus a slight dip in June 2017.

During March, on average, there were five million viewers watching 1b+ hours every day. That’s over 2x times more views than YouTube Gaming and almost 4x times more hours watched than YouTube Gaming.

Twitch remains the most popular platform for gamers and gaming content, with over half of viewers coming from the Twitch platform, compared to 27% on YouTube Gaming. Over the last year, Twitch has continued to be the largest source of streams on the site (with over 40%), even as esports continues to grow on YouTube Gaming.

The site saw record breaking numbers for both streamers and community members, with Sony Interactive Entertainment’s “The Playroom for Twitch” seeing 1.7M hours watched in March. “The Playroom” was the most watched channel on Twitch, but it was its community that drove this growth. The base of “The Playroom” streamers averages 682k viewers, with a median of 1.8M viewers each week. This marks a significant growth in viewership as well as engagement from the “The Playroom” community in just one month, and could potentially be the start of a new way streaming gamers can interact with their audience like traditional gaming platforms offer.

On the streamer front, DrDisrespect held his spot as the most popular Twitch streamer. DrDisrespect has consistently remained atop this list since breaking into the top ten in August 2017 and remains relevant, with his audience growing during March to just over 1.4M average viewers. The “DrDisRespect” channel also saw a significant growth in both hours watched and average views per minute. His channel also boasts a strong community of over 1.4M average viewers a day, with over 8M hours watched per day. His audience is also growing in age and gender diversity. Consequently, his subscription base has grown by over 20% in the past two months.

His growth can be attributed to how he’s extending his brand outside of Twitch and into other platforms, including YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. DrDisRespect’s YouTube channel had the most growth of any channel in the gaming vertical on YouTube during March, with engagement up 30% week-over-week. This can also be attributed to his recent influx of sponsored content for products such as “Dell,” “Honey Badger Don’t Care,” and “Monster Energy.”

DrDisRespect is one of Twitch’s most active personalities, averaging 110 hours streamed a week. He’s also one of the first to leverage sleep streaming as a strategy, which has been in part responsible for driving his growth in the past two months. Viewers love to watch DrDisRespect, often referring to him as a comedic genius and not just a gamer.

The top ten most streamed games all averaged over 1M hours watched per day, with large esports titles making up the bulk of that list.