Share of live channels in each viewer band, across the categories we sample.
Where most channels actually sit
At this size you are in the far right band of that bar, where about one live channel in nine sits. Differences between large channels show up in viewer counts far more than in percentages.
Questions
- Is 500 average viewers good on Twitch?
- It puts you ahead of more than 90% of live channels in the categories we sample. The middle live channel has 2 viewers.
- How many viewers does the typical Twitch channel have?
- The middle live channel in our sample has 2 viewers at a given moment.
How we got this number
We sample the most-watched Twitch categories four times a day and record how many viewers every live channel in them has. These figures use the latest sample for each of 1,536 categories, covering about 68,100 live channels, from 19 September to 19 October 2026.
Three limits worth knowing. We sample the top categories by viewers, so this is not every channel on Twitch. We compare your average against live counts at a single moment, which is close but not identical. And the very largest categories drop out whenever our sample of them hits its page limit.
The full data is in the Twitch Category Saturation Report, with a downloadable dataset each month.