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Best time to stream IRL
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When do IRL viewers outnumber IRL 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
- #1Monday 22:00~74K viewers/channel
- #2Thursday 03:00~39.3K viewers/channel
- #3Monday 21:00~34.4K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Monday 22:00 (UTC) — ~111K viewers spread across ~1.5 live channel.
viewers per live channel — brighter = better time to stream
Monday 22:00–23:00~74K viewers/channel~111K viewers~1.5 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do IRL streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked IRL channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 11. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 48 tracked IRL channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (975 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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