
Yesterday at about 5:51 PM BST, Bussey indicated that there were also "about 5000 fewer streamers live" and approximately "500,000 fewer viewers", compared to the previous week. These were the average Twitch user stats from January 2021 according to SullyGnome: 2,925,698 average viewers. Twitch streamer, Zach Bussey, tracked the efficacy of the protest in near real-time. This suggested that hundreds of thousands of Twitch users refrained from using the platform over the duration of the campaign. This translates to a decrease of nearly 1 million active users on the platform or a 23% difference between the two periods. Over 37.3 million hours have been broadcast so far this year with a peak of 15.6 thousand streamers. Peak concurrent viewership on Twitch during #ADayOffTwitch campaign versus previous period. Apex Legends has been watched for over 581.8 million hours with an average of 80,166 viewers and a peak of 404,843 so far this year. According to Twitch Tracker, peak concurrent viewers dropped from 4.45 million active viewers of the previous period to just 3.53 million active viewers during the protest on September 1st.

Recently Twitch released an update to their stats. While it's arguable whether any irreparable damage was done to the Amazon-owned streaming service, the #ADayOffTwitch protest was an apparent success. Twitch AnalyticsIf you are trying to grow on Twitch you need to understand how your channel analytics work. Twitch viewership stats tank during #ADayOffTwitch boycott
