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Best time to stream World of Warcraft
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When do World of Warcraft viewers outnumber World of Warcraft streamers? The heatmap below compares hourly viewer demand with live-channel competition — the brighter a cell glows, the better your odds of getting discovered. Gold is prime time; dark violet means you'd be streaming into the void.
Top windows this month
- #1Saturday 20:00~24.2K viewers/channel
- #2Saturday 19:00~23K viewers/channel
- #3Saturday 22:00~19.6K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
The strongest window for World of Warcraft is Saturday at 20:00 UTC: about 78.8K viewers across 3.3 live channels, or 24.2K viewers per channel. That is 3.5 times the weekly average of 6.9K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.
The next best windows are Saturday at 19:00 UTC (23K viewers per channel) and Saturday at 22:00 UTC (19.6K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Saturday 20:00 (UTC) — ~78.8K viewers spread across ~3.3 live channels.
viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered
Saturday 20:00–21:00~23.9K viewers/channel~78.8K viewers~3.3 live channels4 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do World of Warcraft streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked World of Warcraft channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 9. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How to use these World of Warcraft numbers
Viewers per channel is a ratio, not a promise. An hour with a small audience and even fewer live channels can score well, so switch the heatmap to Viewers before you plan around a quiet hour: a high ratio built on a small audience still means a small audience. Competition shows the other side, the hours when the most World of Warcraft channels are live at once.
Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual World of Warcraft content in one of them for two or three weeks and compare your average viewers with your current slot. The numbers are rebuilt every night from the last 28 days, so the windows follow the audience as it shifts.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 21 tracked World of Warcraft channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (779 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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