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First of all, a belated happy new year to everyone.
May it be even more awesome than the last one.And since one year has passed, you will not just be treated to the usual top 50 streamers lists of last month, but also the top 100 streamers lists of 2013. Who's had the most average viewers in all of 2013? Who's been the most resourceful streamer last year with the highest viewers*hours streamed rating? Find out below!
Also, just like last time, there will be no WCS numbers due to lack of WCS events happening in December.
Table of contents
- Huh? What's this?
- Top 50 streamers in December 2013
- Top 100 streamers in 2013
- The big picture
- Proleague
- Older entries
Huh? What's this?
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) and not casters, 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.
The list
First, here's the top 50 lists of December.
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.
Also also, go and check out Fuzic! Stijn created the awesome looking website with all kinds of stream viewership data. It's much better suited for immediate numbers and analyzing numbers from singular events. Also, it's way prettier than anything I could've ever design. (Note that his project is completely independent from mine, so if you have any questions about it, please ask him and not me.
)Now, Without further ado, here's this month's rankings:
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202013%2012.png)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202013%2012x.png)
Stray observations and musings
- Scarlett is this month's most popular streamer, easily beating fellow Zergs Stephano and Jaedong by over 2000 and 4000 viewers, respectively. She's also the first streamer in quite some months to have a peak of over 10.000 viewers, which is quite the feat nowadays. In addition, all three players have streamed for less than a dozen hours in December.
- Destiny, on the other hand, streamed a ton, and even though he lost some viewers and streamed quite a bit less than the previous month, he's still sitting on a comfortable first place in the V*H category over Dragon.
- Ms.Spyte has gained a respectable number of viewers last month, giving her over 1500 viewers on average. Not bad at all.
- IdrA looks to have found his loyal viewership by now, barely having lost any viewers in December and staying at roughly 2000 viewers on average.
- Here's some information on some of the lesser known names in the lists:
- Notable absentees last month: Innovation (He did stream, but not enough to make it onto the list), DRG, Stork, Ret, HuK (also barely didn't stream enough).
- 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.
HuiThe top 100 streamers in 2013
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%20100%202013.png)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%20100%202013x.png)
Stray observations and musings
- Just in case it needs explanation, the bars in the the "Months active" column stand for one month each. Green means the player streamed during that month, red means he did not.
- I hope nobody's surprised to see the #1 spot for 2013 going to Stephano. He's always gotten huge numbers whenever he streamed, and he had the highest average viewer count for six months in a row back when streamers regularly had peaks of more than 10.000 viewers. So this is a well deserved victory in my books.
- Scarlett streamed only during three months last year, but each time she's gotten huge viewer numbers, allowing her to grab the second place of the year quite easily. Not bad.
- The next three spots go to Grubby, DeMusliM and IdrA. All three players have streamed all throughout the year, while maintaining a solid fanbase of viewers. They're not going anywhere anytime soon.
- Also, INnoVation has been sneaking himself into the top 10 of the year by only streaming less than 10 hours in the last two months.
- On to the other list, we have our beloved Dragon taking the number one spot in a very close race against IdrA. Congratulations!
- Unsurprisingly, the streamer with the most hours streamed in 2013 is PainUser, with over 4000 in the bank. Who will ever forget dear PainUser falling asleep live on stream? A close second is the 2v2 player ProTech, with close to 3950 hours. For comparison: A (non-leap) year has 8760 hours. Think about that one for a second.
- So there you have it, one year's worth of streaming numbers. Let's see what this year brings.
The big picture
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/Monthly%20viewers%202013%2012.png)
(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
Note that these are player streams only.
Player streams have recovered slowly but steadily, and are now almost up to the pre-WCS level. Of course, given that there was barely any WCS at all in the last two months, this shouldn't be too surprising. It shows that WCS really did have a very real impact on player stream numbers, and I'm very curious to see these numbers develop as WCS returns with its new format which, supposedly, will not suffocate other kinds of streams as much as it did in 2013.
Overall stream views
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/Monthly%20viewers%202013%2012 all.png)
(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
Everything's fine.
There simply weren't any big tournaments or events in December. No WCS, no premier tournaments (Yes, there was ASUS ROG NorthCon, but let's not talk about that one, shall we?), and so there wasn't anything the people could watch. Thus, the viewer numbers are far down. They'll be up again next month.
Proleague
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8028950/TL/Proleague%202013%2012.png)
Proleague just started at the end of December, so there's not a whole lot to see here for now. So far the numbers look pretty okay, though, hovering around the 10.000 viewers mark. Let's see how things develop, especially now that GSTL looks quite dead, with all the Korean teams (with the exception of StarTale. Poor StarTale..) in Proleague, there's pretty much no competition in that regard any longer.
So that's all for this month and the year 2013. As always, any kind of feedback is quite welcome!
Older entries
- Top 50 streamers in November 2013
- Top 50 streamers in October 2013 (+ WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in September 2013 (+ WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in August 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in July 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in June 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in May 2013 (plus WCS numbers)
- Top 50 streamers in April 2013 (+ WCS/GSTL/SPL!)
- Top 50 streamers in March 2013 (HotS numbers!)
- Top 50 streamers in February 2013 + Proleague/GSL
- Top 50 streamers in Jan.2013+Proleague/GSL viewers
- Top 50 streamers in Dec 2012 (plus Top 100 2012!*)
- Top 50 streamers in November 2012
- Top 50 streamers in October 2012
- Top 50 streamers in September 2012
- Top 50 streamers in August 2012
- Top 50 streamers in July 2012
- Top 50 streamers in June 2012
- Top 50 streamers in May 2012
- Who is the most popular streamer?(Numbers inside!) (March-April 2012)
