StreamElements: Twitch and YouTube show modest August growth

StreamElements‘ report for August shows that streaming services had a pretty boring month. That’s not unusual — the whole industry had a pretty slow month. But the two major game streaming sites showed a slight uptick in growth.

According to data from Rainmaker.gg, StreamElements’ analytics partner, both YouTube Gaming and Twitch have had three consecutive months of growth, with slightly more in August. Twitch showed 1.865 billion hours watched, while YouTube Gaming showed 305 million hours. Viewership had declined in 2022’s earlier months, especially when compared with 2020 and 2021, and StreamElements itself surmised this was in-line with a return to pre-pandemic numbers.