The Biggest Streamers on Twitch
Video games have always been popular, dating back to the original titles like Pong, but the rise of gaming as a profession, and streaming online for an audience, has taken off in the last ten years. With the creation of streaming platforms like Twitch, and other platforms like YouTube and Facebook providing opportunities for live streaming, professional gaming isn't going away any time soon.
Twitch plays host to more than 35 million unique viewers each month, all of whom are watching the 8 million streamers broadcast everything from video game play, to cooking, to watching professional sports together, to chatting and hanging out.
While that unique viewers number is incredibly high, most streamers on Twitch are only broadcasting to a handful of viewers at a time. The biggest streamers, however, have millions of followers and host tens of thousands of viewers at a time.
The 25 celebrity streamers on this list earn millions of dollars a year and are changing the face of video games and gaming with their popularity.