[Experiment] Research Tab & "Time to Stream" Analytics
We're introducing a new tab called Research to Analytics in your Creator Dashboard. With it, streamers can view a panel that provides daily and hourly insight for the best times to stream, based on a particular category, in order to grow their audience.
We'd love to hear feedback on what other information you might find valuable in the Research tab, or how design could be improved to help you better understand whatever it may be that can help you make more informed choices as a streamer.

Hi all,
We're letting you know that Time to Stream should now be available to all users. Based on feedback & engagement, we've decided to implement the bar chart view to keep things easier to understand. Additionally, numbers for Channels and Viewers can be seen along with average viewers per channel. If you have any other feedback for the Research page, please feel free to share it here. Thank you!
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Lazarus_007 commented
I would like to search by a specific time. I can change the categories I stream in easily, but my IRL schedule cannot change.
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jpauloport commented
minha transmissão tinhA 12 ESPECTADORES na live toda mas so aparecia 2 me assistindo . por qual motivo nao e computado meus espectadores
jpauloport nick
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Medjay12345 commented
It would be good if Twitch suggested after 2 weeks of streaming something like this:
- We suggest games you should stream since you played these following games.
- We suggest games you should stream at these times
- We suggest checking out similar streamers in your categories -
hackdemixbox commented
Boa tarde eu gostaria ser vcs deichace colocase uma opisoes pra sai os áudio das pessoas que está com vcs no discord pelo Xbox fasso live pelo Xbox mais não sai os áudio das pessoas que está comigo no discord ser vcs colocase seria uma opisão boa e mais uma coisa aumenta o valor dos dinheiro dos anucio porque até agora eu só tou com 6 dólares e não posso saca porque só pode saca com 50 dólares alimenta os valores dos anucio e paga mais um pouco por por bit ajente tá cangando muito pouco com os bit
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mrzeroup1 commented
Adcionem espectadores por jogo específico.
Por exemplo: Que horas os espectadores mais veem lives de cs, gta, fifa, lol e etc. ..
E também adcionem comentários nessas pesquisas para que cada um streamer se conecte e compartilhem suas ideias e experiências.
Assim podemos criar uma comunidade conectada e em expansão uma vez que os views poderão desfrutar de novas experiências com streamers diferentes transmitindo os jogos que estão no cenário e que ainda há muito a contribuir com a plataforma não só incentivando a jogar como também criando competições e premiações engajando a comunidade. -
whiskey___zero commented
This is cool and I like it.
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AceOverKILL commented
It would be nice if there were a button that was in plain sight to change between the Bar graph and timetable schedule to see the best times to stream.
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HumblyMumbly commented
Having a larger ratio of channels to viewers does not properly predict the discovery of a given category. Other people having viewers does not help you. Search and Browse metrics alongside dodging bigger streamers helps your channel have the best chance at seeing click-through. Please fix this.
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Supersonic540 commented
The only thing i can think to add is a little note that tells us what timezone we are looking at. i am not sure if what i am seeing is my time or twitch HQ time
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kidmentalMUSIC commented
I love these analytics, strange that when I change to specific regions on Music it has konflicting data; the "any" option is a pretty full list but when you try to sort individually the data is inconclusive.
I would love to see a data range filter for our followers, whereas it shows the time frames in which they are most active?
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yuuki_nakamizo commented
I would like to save games that I want to look at frequently rather than just the games I stream when looking at the research tab. As well as a way to look at multiple games at once by category and taking out games you aren't interested in.
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kingdoriath commented
your feedback is very good and educational thank you Twitch <3
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losinggeneration commented
I got the full week/hour list with average users for the category in the grid. I find this view to be really easy to find good times. A friend got the bar chart, and they sent some screen shots, and I'm glad I didn't get that view. The bar charts made it a lot harder to reason about which times make the most sense. I also tend to prefer raw numbers over the graph. If there was a way to switch between them, that would be OK, but I definitely prefer the grid version.
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celsario commented
Es una muy buena idea la de los horarios y que incluyan las audiencias promedio.
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CanalOCaraDoTI commented
Adding a "calendar" for the creator of digital content to adapt the schedule to their audience to broadcast, is a good tool. The payment could be improved again, because for countries like Brazil, 70/30 is very unequal and this takes away the incentive of small producers to make lives on the platform, could, for example, be 90/10 or 80/20 in subs and ads, and the other forms of "rewards" (bits and related) be the totality of the Streamer. Tools that could come back: Multistream for affiliates (for partners there could be some restriction or request); the return of VODs RERUNS through the platform, this mode greatly facilitated the lives of small content producers.
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joao_lucas000 commented
I liked this time recommendation, but my reach is low, so it doesn't change anything if I do it at the right time or not
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ataraxia927 commented
It would also be helpful to not just search by game category but be able to choose timeframes when you are able to stream and see within that timeframe which games are most popular. as well as how many people typically are streaming in game categories at certain times. It is helpful to have the toggle to include or exclude large streamers in data
i also agree with @foxyprojct on this point - "It would be awesome if you could include what my personal average viewership was compared to the overall average viewership for the same category. Also, a way to see if viewership for that category is increasing or decreasing over a certain filterable time period." -
Mike_it_Happen commented
this turns out to be very useful for me. I'm just starting out and this feature will help me a ton. thank you!
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spshKyros commented
For the time to stream analysis, I would like it if you had an "all languages" option, or the ability to select multiple languages. For instance, people who'se primary languages are german or dutch very likely also speak english, so I would like to be able to include them in my analysis of audience sizes - a fairly large portion of my community crosses over from the german side of twitch in fact, but I Can't see the combined english/german/dutch segment easily. Nice idea though! :)
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e_w0lf_mex commented
Estaría bueno que pudieras poner un Filtro de Zona horaria para ver a que hora aparte del día hay mas espectadores de X categoría en cada Región para hacer comparaciones con otras Región que hablan el mismo idioma
It would be nice if you could put a Time Zone Filter to see what time apart from the day there are more viewers of X category in each Region to make comparisons with other Regions that speak the same language