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Best time to stream Overwatch
▲ Trending on Twitch this week
When do Overwatch viewers outnumber Overwatch 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
- #1Thursday 01:00~16.2K viewers/channel
- #2Thursday 00:00~15.9K viewers/channel
- #3Thursday 02:00~15.9K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Thursday 01:00 (UTC) — ~16.2K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.
viewers per live channel — brighter = better time to stream
Thursday 01:00–02:00~16.2K viewers/channel~16.2K viewers~1 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Overwatch streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Overwatch channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 12. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 9 tracked Overwatch channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (595 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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