❘   Published: 2022-12-05T06:38:43

  ❘   Updated: 2022-12-05T06:38:51

Twitch’s viewership is at its lowest point since September 2020, with the platform as a whole racking up less than 1.7 billion hours watched in November 2022. The 10% drop between October and now is the biggest since June 2021, but why’s that the case?

Twitch has seen rapid growth since the beginning of 2020. With people locked in their homes, more took to the Amazon-owned streaming platform to pass the time, either showcasing their own lives or joining the chat of someone else to get some much-needed socialization.

Across the last two years, the platform has experienced rapid growth. However it’s starting to plateau, with the latest stats in November highlighting a potential reversal. 

Twitch’s viewership stats for the last month are the lowest they’ve been since September 2020, with 1.69 billion hours of content watched in November. It’s still significantly higher than the 1 billion hours boasted in January and February 2020, but it’s part of a noted decline.

The 10% drop in viewership from October to November is the biggest since June 2021’s 15% fall. 

If you fear this is going to be the end of Twitch though, maybe hang off the conspiracy talk.

Twitch’s stats are at its lowest since mid-2020, but it’s not all doom and gloom.

It’s not the first time Twitch’s viewership has fluctuated like this at the end of the year. November 2021…