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Best time to stream Games + Demos
When do Games + Demos viewers outnumber Games + Demos 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 04:00~63354.5 viewers/channel
- #2Monday 05:00~62150.5 viewers/channel
- #3Wednesday 05:00~58482.5 viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Monday 04:00 (UTC) — ~63355 viewers spread across ~1 live channel.
viewers per live channel — brighter = better time to stream
How long do Games + Demos streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Games + Demos channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 3. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 10 tracked Games + Demos channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (127 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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