sorry for asking to be spoonfed, but as someone who doesn't watch twitch or other livestreams, is fishtank getting high viewership, or would those average viewership numbers be considered normal/midtier?
They peaked at 57k simultaneous viewers, which would be a very popular stream on Twitch. It's about how many viewers used to watch Trump press conferences, SpaceX launch streams on YouTube, or developer streams for AAA game developers. The top daily streamers on Twitch get about 80k-100k, and specific events like tournaments can go up to 400-600k.
Figured I'd pull some numbers for comparison. Right now, 1:30 PM EST, is hardly peak viewership time, but I'm not going for perfect analytics here. Also there's some big multi-game tournament going on, so numbers are skewed.
Top viewed streams on Twitch right now:
113k - League of Legends tournament
85.7k - CS:GO tournament
45.3k - Valorant tournament
22.3k - Fortnite tournament
56.6k - top Minecraft stream (xQc, one of the top variety streamers)
37.5k - top Dead Island 2 stream (another variety streamer)
20.3k - top "Just Chatting" stream
19.4k - top Dota 2 stream
16.7k - top LoL stream (non-tournament)
13.4k - top GTA5 stream
YouTube numbers would have similar proportions with overall lower viewership, but it's too convoluted to get numbers easily.
Right now, Fishtank is on a single-camera, temporary feed on a clip channel on YouTube, pulling in
5.2k viewers. Peak viewership was
57k viewers, I think last night, and again that's on his own website without any platform boost, algorithm, or real advertising.
So Fishtank would rate as a top non-tournament stream on any major platform, and if he was on one from the start I think he could actually rival the big tournaments for viewership.