“It makes me more happy than I could ever explain, they’re the ones I started with,” Beaver said about his deal with Twitch. Over the last three months, Lazar has been the most viewed streamer, for hours watched, with 53.95 million, according to Esports Charts Pro. Since January, Twitch has seen its hours watched count grow 81% to just under 1.8 billion hours in April, according to Esports Charts Pro. A report from StreamElements and Arsenal.gg, which shows the total number of hours watched on Twitch at 1.65 billion, shows other platforms lagging far behind. “The thing I’m most excited about is that streaming has become a thing, a thing that is going to stay as well,” Beaver said.

Source: Washington Post May 26, 2020 16:56 UTC