Twitch users spent 241 billion minutes watching games in 2015

Twitch had an insane 241 billion minutes viewed in 2015.

@anthony256

Published Feb 13, 2016 1:25 PM CST
Updated Nov 3, 2020 1:01 PM CST

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We all know just how big Twitch is, but how many minutes did people spend watching gamers play games in 2015? Oh, just a casual 241.1 billion minutes - or if you like zeroes, that would be 241,100,000,000. Yeah, a lot.

Twitch users spent 241 billion minutes watching games in 2015 | TweakTown.com

Twitch had an average of 1.7 million broadcasters streaming every month, with the average concurrent viewers for 2015 reaching 550,000 with peak concurrent users reaching its milestone of 2.09 million on August 23 for the ESL One: Cologne 2015 and the League of Legends NA LCS Finals on the same weekend. As for the top ten games streamed, here's the list:

League of Legends
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
Hearthstone
Minecraft
H1Z1
Destiny
World of Tanks
World of Warcraft
FIFA 15

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Anthony Garreffa

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.