StreamElements: Twitch viewership is up as streamers play with one-armed bandits

StreamElements released its monthly report for May, revealing the state of streaming for last month. According to the reports, both Twitch and Facebook Gaming showed a slight upturn in viewership numbers. New streamers and stream categories are also disrupting the year’s trends.

The report gets its data from Rainmaker.gg, StreamElements’ analytics partner. While both Twitch and Facebook Gaming have seen declines in viewership numbers since the beginning of the year, this month they saw slight increase. Twitch went from 1.782 billion hours watched in April to 1.808 billion hours watched, and Facebook Gaming went from 335 million to 350 million hours.