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Best time to stream Warcraft III
When do Warcraft III viewers outnumber Warcraft III 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
- #1Tuesday 17:00~1.4K viewers/channel
- #2Thursday 02:00~350 viewers/channel
- #3Thursday 03:00~332 viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
The strongest window for Warcraft III is Tuesday at 17:00 UTC: about 1.4K viewers across 1 live channel, or 1.4K viewers per channel. That is 3.9 times the weekly average of 359 viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.
The next best windows are Thursday at 02:00 UTC (350 viewers per channel) and Thursday at 03:00 UTC (332 viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Tuesday 17:00 (UTC) — ~1.4K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.
viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered
Tuesday 17:00–18:00~1.4K viewers/channel~1.4K viewers~1 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Warcraft III streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Warcraft III channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 5. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How to use these Warcraft III 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 Warcraft III channels are live at once.
Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual Warcraft III 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 5 tracked Warcraft III channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (104 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 Warcraft III streamers
- MOONMOON · 1.2M followers
- TSM_TheOddOne · 805.8K followers
- Grubby · 762.1K followers
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