#Twitch games series#

Beyond that, sporadic games started appearing in the back half of the top 10 just to fall out the next month creating a jumbled mess of various video games. Here they are along with the number representing the game’s average ranking over the 10 months of posts in parentheses.Ĭall of Duty Black Ops 2 finished in sixth place.

By averaging out the rankings on each of these posts, it’s possible to get a fairly accurate sampling of the top five games on Twitch in 2013. Starting in 2013, Twitch posted another 10 of these monthly blog posts. Data on the top games from the rest of 2012 or 2011 isn’t publicly accessible, at least to my knowledge. That was just one month’s ranking though. For others, the game’s time among the top 10 of Twitch was a brief moment in the sun. Some of those games proved bulletproof for the next decade. Here are the top 10 games from that blog post: The best source of game-specific data starts with monthly posts on the Twitch Blog beginning in December of 2012. When trying to get the data from individual games or channels around this time, that becomes harder to find. In 2011, Twitch’s 3.2 million visitors were fantastic, but now the platform has nearly three times that many people going live to broadcast, not just to visit. Now, in 2021, Twitch sees an average of about 3 million viewers at any time on the platform according to TwitchTracker. There is data on total users - at the time of Twitch’s launch the platform saw 3.2 million unique visitors each month. 2012ĭata from the early years of Twitch is hard to find. Here’s a look back on the top games on the site over the past decade.

#Twitch games series#

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the launch of Twitch, Nerd Street Gamers is doing a series of articles throughout June looking at the games, moments and streamers who have helped shape Twitch. Now, 10 years after Twitch was first launched, the site has found itself at the center of cultural moments, a crucial component of esports at large and certainly had its share of controversy as well. So when Twitch launched, it was basically a beacon out to the gamers of the world who hadn’t had a home, who hadn’t had the status of being cool or culturally relevant.” No one was making money playing video games. “It’s really easy to forget that, back in 2011, being a gamer was not a cool thing,” said Ben Goldhaber, one of the founding employees of Twitch who has since founded Juked.gg.

By 2014, Twitch had completely overtaken so the company rebranded to Twitch Interactive and shut down the website to focus on Twitch. By 2011, had created the largest competitive video gaming broadcast network in the world, a product that demanded its own branding, so created TwitchTV.Īt the time, was launching a new facet of the site's business. Originally founded in 2006, was the live broadcast answer to YouTube’s video-on-demand service.