Twitch & Kick statistics 2026: the viewer data hub
Numbers on Twitch and Kick's size and growth are scattered across a dozen trackers and year-end recaps. This page pulls the sourced, dated ones into one place — no guessing, no rounding to make a nicer headline.
Twitch by the numbers
| Metric | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly active users | ~240 million | StreamElements-sourced, cited across 2026 Twitch stats roundups |
| Daily active users | ~35 million | StreamElements-sourced, same roundups |
| Distinct channels going live per month | ~7.4 million | StreamElements-sourced, same roundups |
| Hours watched, 2025 | 19.2 billion | StreamElements / Streams Charts |
| Average concurrent viewers, 2026 | ~2.05–2.29 million (2.05M in Jan 2026) | TwitchTracker / StreamElements monthly data |
Kick by the numbers
| Metric | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Users reached | 100 million, April 2026 (~3 years after launch) | Streams Charts, "Kick Sets New Viewership Records" |
| Hours watched, 2025 | 4.5 billion (+131% year-over-year) | Streams Charts, 2026 Kick recap reports |
| Share of global livestreaming hours | ~17% (vs. Twitch's 19.2B hours — still 4x+ Kick's total) | Streams Charts, 2026 Kick recap reports |
| August 2026 record | 669.14M hours watched, avg viewers exceeding 900K for the first time, 2.36M peak | Streams Charts, "Kick August 2026 Recap" |
| Creator revenue split | 95/5 (vs. Twitch's standard 50/50) | Cited across 2026 Kick statistics roundups (e.g. VoxBooster) |
The stat that explains why most streamers struggle to be seen
93.3% of Twitch streamers pull in five viewers or fewer, even though the platform-wide average stream sits around 7.4 concurrent viewers — analysis by Zach Bussey, reported via Dexerto ("New Twitch stats reveal how few viewers are needed to be a top streamer"). That gap between the platform average and what most individual streamers actually see is the whole discovery problem in one number: a handful of large channels pull the average up, while the median channel is streaming to almost nobody.
It's also why how Twitch's directory sorts channels matters so much — category pages rank by concurrent viewers, so the streamers already above that 5-viewer line are the ones who keep getting found, and the ones below it rarely break through on content alone.
Kick vs. Twitch, at a glance
Kick is growing fast off a smaller base — 131% year-over-year hours watched growth is a rate Twitch, at its size, can't realistically match — but it's still a fraction of Twitch's total volume (4.5B vs 19.2B hours watched in 2025). The revenue split is the clearest differentiator for creators deciding where to build: Kick's 95/5 versus Twitch's 50/50 is a real, structural difference, not marketing. We go deeper on the practical trade-offs in Twitch vs Kick: where should you stream? and how Kick actually pays.