"Concurrent viewers" refers to the number of people who are currently watching or viewing something at the same time.
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Known to many as the world's biggest company when it comes to anything eSports, ESL has broken many a record, including one for the «highest number
of concurrent viewers on a single channel.»
The gaming phenomenon shows no signs of losing its momentum after smashing YouTube records for the largest number of
concurrent viewers on a single live game stream, and for the most monthly uploads related to a single game.
The service saw an increase in
concurrent viewers in Q4, but not concurrent streamers — so it's not clear how well this measure has worked to bring in new streamers.
Over 34 million unique viewers tuned in to the IEM World Championship broadcasts matched by over two million estimated
peak concurrent viewers across multiple viewing platforms.
That said, a recent report from Streamlabs found that Twitter's Periscope saw an 80 percent jump in
concurrent viewers during Q3 2017, which could indicate the platform is beginning to pick up steam.
Canadian rapper Drake and streamer Ninja have absolutely destroyed the record
for concurrent viewers on Twitch.
On March 14, Drake joined Ninja for a «Fortnite» stream late at night, and the two broke Twitch's record for the
most concurrent viewers of all time, partly thanks to Drake's advertising the marathon to his 36.9 million Twitter followers.
But the show achieved another milestone as well — due to the popularity of HBO's streaming apps HBO GO and HBO NOW, the premiere also saw the highest ever number of
concurrent viewers across HBO's streaming services, too.
This year also saw a record 321,000 peak
concurrent viewers tune into the 2018 Six Invitational, Rainbow Six Siege's largest Major Esports championship to date, with more than 6.2 million hours watched across all channels throughout the event.
Prior to Dr. DisRespect's return, gambling sites were taking wagers on which notorious steamer would have the bigger audience for their first streams back; Tyler1 managed to garner more than 400,000
concurrent viewers at the height of his stream.
The International 2017, a Dota 2 tournament hosted at the Key Arena in Seattle Center, reached a peak of 5 million
concurrent viewers online.
Now any U.S. publisher with 2,000 or more followers that has also «reached 300 or
more concurrent viewers in a recent live video» will be eligible to insert video ads into their livestreams.
The raid, called «Leviathan,» went live for players on Sept. 13 and immediately shot to the # 1 position on Twitch based on
total concurrent viewers.
Awkward also has streaming technology which let's up to 500,000
concurrent viewers join in, on Mixer, Youtube and Twitch.
Twitch requires creators to have a high number of
concurrent viewers over a period of time in order to enter these exclusive ranks; it's not an easy goal to reach.
Tyler «Ninja» Blevins is one of the most successful stars of Twitch right now, having broken records for
concurrent viewers when he streamed Fortnite with Drake.
Despite all the hype and media attention surrounding Melee \'s competition at Evo 2013, the largest annual fighting game tournament in the world, nobody expected the almost twelve year old game to reach a peak of ~ 134,000
concurrent viewers as Mango and Wobbles squared off for one last time in Grand Final.
IPL 4, the event preceding the most recent, sorted 346,000
concurrent viewers who consumed a small in comparison 6 million hours of content.
In his first stream, Faker was able to amass a peak of 245,100 viewers, shattering the record for
most concurrent viewers on a stream by an individual.
He didn't tell Fortune how many subscribers the company has now (a company spokesperson said numbers will be released later this month), but Gandler estimates that
concurrent viewers could reach the low six figures during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Last year's World Championship averaged 4.2 million
concurrent viewers on TV and online.
At its peak, the Overwatch League had 437,000
concurrent viewers, averaging 408,000 on its opening day, according to Overwatch creators Blizzard Entertainment.
Well, three months ago I was lucky to have 6
concurrent viewers, 2 months ago 20, last month I watched as the average number of concurrent viewers jumped up to over 40.
Either you're one of the 1 % who, through a combination of skill, hard work, entertainment and lucky timing jumped in early enough and stuck with it to build a gigantic audience or you're the 99 % who fill the rest of the search result list with less than 100
concurrent viewers, and most likely between 1 and 5.
Most recently I've had a few streams now with over 100
concurrent viewers and the number of followers in my channel has doubled in the last 4 weeks from around 800 to over 1,700.
At the peak moment, 1.3 million
concurrent viewers were measured, so there's certainly a lot of interest in another edition of the event.
Twitch is a huge and growing Platform for streamers with nearly 1.5 million
concurrent viewers in the last 6 months and $ 100 million in Streamlabs» tips projected for 2017.
And recently, H1Z1 has been doubling its initial averages at over 30k viewers per hour and hit a new peak in February with 89k
concurrent viewers.
Runner - up ViCi Gaming commiserated themselves with $ 1.46 m. Valve boasted 20 million unique viewers throughout the tournament, with a peak of two million
concurrent viewers.
Over the course of two days, there was a total of 180,000 views during the livestream, with 7,000
concurrent viewers during the final and (to date), 32,000 on - demand views.
In total the stream generated over 4 million unique viewers and 250,000
concurrent viewers.
The pair began playing Fortnite, the super popular Battle Royale game, at around midnight ET (4 am GMT) and within two hours, the stream had more than 600,000
concurrent viewers, while the game dominated four of the top trending topics on Twitter worldwide.
That stream attracted over 600k
concurrent viewers and peaked at around 630k.
In 2015, Twitch peaked at just over 2 million
concurrent viewers.
Though Twitch and YouTube are leading in terms of
concurrent viewers and streamers, the services that saw the most growth in the fourth quarter of 2017 were Facebook and Microsoft Mixer, with 62 percent and 58 percent growth in active streamers, respectively.
YouTube was a distance second with 308,000
concurrent viewers, followed by Periscope's 80,000, Facebook's 27,500 and Microsoft Mixer's 5,000.
Twitch also dropped a bunch of numbers, for those keeping track: Twitch had an average of 622,347
concurrent viewers in 2016, peaking at 2,061,718 viewers at once in April.
The all - time Twitch record is held by Eleague Major: Boston 2018 with over 1.1 million
concurrent viewers.