In the era of the coronavirus, Twitch has become even more in demand. And streamers use it. Since February, 89% more videos containing messages from sponsors have appeared on the site.

More than 16% of Russians like to watch game streams. Twitch turned out to be the most popular platform for viewing them.

On August 27, CD Projekt Red for the first time unveiled the gameplay of the future role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077. The developers demonstrated about an hour of gameplay on the Twitch stream service. At the peak of activity, 459 thousand viewers watched the broadcast at the same time, which set a daily record and made the Cyberpunk 2077 stream one of the most popular shows on Twitch this month.

Spanish streamer Rubén Gundersen and 99 other video bloggers played the “battle Royale” Fortnite Battle Royale. The broadcast of their match on YouTube Live was simultaneously watched by over 1 million viewers. This is a record audience for a video game stream to date.

The analytical service Newzoo has compiled a rating of the most popular streams of the Twitch platform for February 2017. Viewers spent the most hours on broadcasts of League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Hearthstone games.