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Best time to stream Sports

When do Sports viewers outnumber Sports 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

  1. #1Monday 12:00~10.1K viewers/channel
  2. #2Tuesday 13:00~9.9K viewers/channel
  3. #3Tuesday 12:00~9.6K viewers/channel

Times shown in UTC.

The strongest window for Sports is Monday at 12:00 UTC: about 10.1K viewers across 1 live channel, or 10.1K viewers per channel. That is 2.4 times the weekly average of 4.2K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.

The next best windows are Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (9.9K viewers per channel) and Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (9.6K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.

Weekly opportunity heatmap

The best opportunity window is Monday 12:00 (UTC) — ~10.1K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.

viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered

Monday 12:00–13:00~10.1K viewers/channel~10.1K viewers~1 live channels4 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details

How long do Sports streams take to peak?

Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Sports channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 7. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.

How to use these Sports 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 Sports channels are live at once.

Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual Sports 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 15 tracked Sports channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (407 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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