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Best time to stream Dead by Daylight
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When do Dead by Daylight viewers outnumber Dead by Daylight 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
- #1Thursday 04:00~8.6K viewers/channel
- #2Monday 04:00~8K viewers/channel
- #3Thursday 05:00~7.8K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
The strongest window for Dead by Daylight is Thursday at 04:00 UTC: about 13K viewers across 1.5 live channels, or 8.6K viewers per channel. That is 2.9 times the weekly average of 3K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.
The next best windows are Monday at 04:00 UTC (8K viewers per channel) and Thursday at 05:00 UTC (7.8K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Thursday 04:00 (UTC) — ~13K viewers spread across ~1.5 live channel.
viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered
Thursday 04:00–05:00~8.6K viewers/channel~13K viewers~1.5 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Dead by Daylight streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Dead by Daylight channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 5. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How to use these Dead by Daylight 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 Dead by Daylight channels are live at once.
Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual Dead by Daylight 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 14 tracked Dead by Daylight channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (180 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 Dead by Daylight streamers
- dakotaz · 4.6M followers
- T2x2 · 2.3M followers
- MenosTrece · 1.3M followers
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