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Top 10 most watched and trending channels of the week

Top 10 most watched and trending channels of the week

InfluencerUpdate.biz has teamed up with esports and streaming analytics firm Stream Hatchet to bring you weekly charts of the most popular games and creators in the streaming space.

This chart documents the most-watched channels by hours across Twitch, YouTube Gaming, Mixer and Facebook.

Each week we'll be documenting the top ten most-watched channels across all the major streaming platforms, so you can see which creators are growing and which ones are in decline. The chart also shows what games they play the most. Check out our chart covering the top ten most-watched games of the week here.

This chart covers the week commencing September 9th.

Most-watched channels

Twitch streamer Asmongold is topping the most-watched channels chart this week. Even in spite of a 53.5 per cent dip in views, the Warcraft player has managed to take the top spot.

The OverwatchLeague Twitch channel moves in second place, continuing to rack up the views with almost constant broadcasting of ongoing and past matches from the OWL.

xQcOW takes third place, soaring all the way up from tenth. The Twitch streamer racked up over 1.4 million hours watched last week, just 6.5 per cent more than the week prior.

Riot Games on Twitch is in fourth for another week, but sees a decline of 16.8 per cent. Slots channel MontanaBlack88 moves up to fifth after a 0.4 per cent rise in hours watched. 

Counter-Strike player Gaules takes sixth place; the Twitch streamer amassed over 1.3 million hours watched in the last week. Sodapoppin on Twitch manages to stay in seventh despite a 64.6 per cent decrease in views - the largest drop on the board for last week.

Twitch's Fortnite machine Tfue keeps his place in eighth despite a 49.5 per cent decrease in views, but the streamer did recently announce that he was taking a break from content. 

NICKMERCS on Twitch moves back into the top 10 after a 50.7 per cent rise in views, and Apple's YouTube channel is an odd bur expected anomaly in tenth after livestreaming its annual September keynote.

Trending by views and followers

The chart below shows the top 10 channels and creators trending by the number of followers or views they have gained in the last week.

Editor

Danielle Partis is editor of PocketGamer.biz and former editor of InfluencerUpdate.biz. She was named Journalist of the Year at the MCV Women in Games Awards 2019, as well as in the MCV 30 under 30 2020. Prior to Steel Media, she wrote about music and games at Team Rock.