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Best time to stream Special Events

When do Special Events viewers outnumber Special Events 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. #1Sunday 12:00~50.5K viewers/channel
  2. #2Sunday 01:00~43K viewers/channel
  3. #3Sunday 11:00~25.6K viewers/channel

Times shown in UTC.

The strongest window for Special Events is Sunday at 12:00 UTC: about 50.5K viewers across 1 live channel, or 50.5K viewers per channel. That is 9.1 times the weekly average of 5.5K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.

The next best windows are Sunday at 01:00 UTC (43K viewers per channel) and Sunday at 11:00 UTC (25.6K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.

Weekly opportunity heatmap

The best opportunity window is Sunday 12:00 (UTC) — ~50.5K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.

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

Sunday 12:00–13:00~50.5K viewers/channel~50.5K viewers~1 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details

How long do Special Events streams take to peak?

Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Special Events channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 4. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.

How to use these Special Events 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 Special Events channels are live at once.

Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual Special Events 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 65 tracked Special Events channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (555 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.

Most followed Special Events streamers

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