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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 the games they've played most that week. Check out our chart covering the top ten most-watched games of the week here.

This chart covers the week commencing November 4th.

Most-watched channels

The top channel this week is a new entry, and it belongs to YouTube. Free Fire - Brasil is a Brazilian channel focusing on Garena Free Fire. It racked up over 4.1 million hours watched last week covering Free Fire esports.

Riot Games' Twitch channel is knocked into second place, and it sees a 14.3 per cent decrease in hours watched. It's closely followed by LoL Esports on YouTube, which saw a 10.5 per cent dropoff in views. Both channels cover the League of Legends esports scene.

PUBG Mobile Esports is also a new entry in fourth for last week. The YouTube channel racked up around 1.9 million hours covering PUBG Mobile's pro scene, as its name suggests.

xQcOW is the first individual creator on the list at number five, and his views were up by 207 per cent last week. The streamer racked up around 1.6 million hours last week delving into Death Stranding.

nl_Kripp is also a new entry in sixth with a huge 502.6 per cent rise in views. The Twitch streamer also racked up around 1.6 million hours, but with professional Hearthstone. 

Garena Lien Quan Mobile moves back into the chart in seventh after racking up 1.5 million hours watched. It's followed closely by EASPORTSFIFA on Twitch, an EA channel covering FIFA 20.

Twitch's ESL_CSGO keeps up the esports trend with 1.3 million hours of CS:GO content, and VEGETA777 on Twitch closes last week's chart with 1.2 million hours of Minecraft.

 

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.