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Best time to stream Special Events
When do Special Events viewers outnumber Special Events streamers? The heatmap below compares hourly viewer demand with live-channel competition — the brightest cells are the windows where a new stream has the best chance of being found.
Top windows this month
- #1Sunday 18:00~24.5K viewers/channel
- #2Sunday 20:00~24.2K viewers/channel
- #3Sunday 19:00~23.6K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Sunday 18:00 (UTC) — ~36.7K viewers spread across ~1.5 live channel.
viewers per live channel — brighter = better time to stream
Sunday 18:00–19:00~24.5K viewers/channel~36.7K viewers~1.5 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Special Events streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Special Events channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 5. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 11 tracked Special Events channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (193 samples). Cells observed on fewer than 2 distinct days show as “no data” — a sampling gap is not the same as an empty timeslot. Numbers describe the channels we track, not all of Twitch, and skew toward established streamers.
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