StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: The Streaming Market in May 2024
Twitch has been declining since the beginning of the year; a single streamer boosted Elden Ring to the top 10.
In May 2024, Twitch accumulated 1.679 billion hours of watch time. Analysts from StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg compare this to May 2019, when Twitch had 940 million hours. A significant increase.
However, in May 2024, the number of hours watched per day dropped to 54 million. This is 1% less than the previous month, and overall, the trend of decline has been observed since the beginning of the year.
Streamer Kai Cenat decided to conduct a marathon on Elden Ring, which resulted in the game entering the top 10 in terms of hours watched (27 million). He played the game for 116 hours, with an average of 105,000 viewers watching his progress.
By the end of the month, KaiCenat became the most-watched gaming streamer, with over 20 million hours of watch time.