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Stray observations and musings

Predictably, Stephano is still the most popular streamer, getting the most average viewers and a peak viewership of over 10000, a first for a player stream this year.



is still the most popular streamer, getting the most average viewers and a peak viewership of over 10000, a first for a player stream this year. Not at all predictably, the number one spot in the viewers*hours category for April goes to Winter , who was virtually unknown just a few months ago. Last month was also the month he's become a featured streamer here on teamliquid, incidentally. Congrats!



, who was virtually unknown just a few months ago. Last month was also the month he's become a featured streamer here on teamliquid, incidentally. Congrats! Here's some information on some of the lesser known names in the lists: Hui:Hui is a Taiwanese player who is mostly playing in the TeSL. His fanbase seems to be found mostly outside of teamliquid and in the Taiwanese community, unsurprisingly.

KingCobra: He's a Russian streamer and commentator, mostly playing daily and weekly cups.

Balloon is a Korean random player who has found a bit of a fanbase over at reddit, among other things thanks to the achievement of being the top of the Korean ladder while playing random, which sure is quite an impressive feat.

LUISG and aGiLe: I have no idea who they are, but they made it into the V*H category, so they must be awesome. If you know anything about these fine streamers, do let me know!



Notable absentees last month: Bomber, Byun, Hyun, Snute, Supernova.



If you find any mistakes or errors in the lists, please do let me know, especially concerning team changes or players that you are absolutely sure should be on the lists, but are not.



The big picture



(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)

Overall stream views



(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)

WCS/GSL

Proleague & ATC

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Welcome this month's edition of the top 50 streamers list.For those of you who don't already know what this is about: I'm gathering various data (viewers, game, events, etc.) from all the streams that are presented on teamliquid.net (those that you can in the sidebar to your right) and use that data to produce the pretty tables and graphs you see below. The tables only contain SC2 players (that is, streams of people playing games of Starcraft 2) andcasters, teams or other streams. The tables also only contain Starcraft 2 related activities. So, for instance when CatZ is streaming Dota2, it will not be taken into account.The data I gather is then turned into the tables you see below. One is sorted by the average viewers, the other is sorted by the average viewers times the hours streamed. The latter table favors those that stream a lot, while the former table favors popular streamers regardless of how much they stream. Either ranking has its advantages and disadvantages, and thus I present both.For either table, I have a minimum required stream time of 5 hours to be included in the list.Due to space limitations, I have to shorten the headers and leave some data out of the tables presented here. You can get the full tables from the links below.The headers aren't as clear as I'd like them to be thanks to this, so here's a quick explanation, just in case: "Viewers" denotes the average viewers in the given month. "Hours" are the hours played. "Place diff" and "Viewer diff" are the place and viewer differences compared to last month.Also, the HTML version linked beneath the images has some more information that I had to leave out due to space limitation, most notably the featured status of the players.Now, Without further ado, here's this month's tables:Note that these arestreams only.Just like last month, the downward trend continues for player stream viewership. Not an ideal time to make money from streaming Starcraft 2.First of all, note that this graph does not include the ShoutCraft Clan Wars live viewer numbers and any other event that is being streamed on MLG's platform, since it does not offer live viewership numbers.Here, too, we see a downward trend, despite the WCS/GSL finals that took place in April, not to mention Dreamhack.The WCS finals haven't been spectacular in terms of viewership, neither WCS EU nor WCS AM coming close to reaching even 50.000 viewers on average, which is quite the pity. It probably did not help that the finals were aired back to back on the same weekend, but given that ESL took over WCS AM at the last minute mid-season, there were probably no other options. Let's see how things work out when there's more time to prepare both finals.Proleague is still doing well, easily reaching >10000 viewers on average for the second match of the day. ATC is struggling a bit more, and unlike with Proleague, there's no noticeable increase in viewership numbers when there are two team matches streamed back to back on a given day.That's all for this month. Hope you guys enjoyed, as always. Any kind of feedback is always welcome!