The much-anticipated Diablo 4 from Blizzard shook up the rankings on Twitch over the weekend. In Germany’s Twitch, the specialist for Diablo 4, jessirocks, leaps from 59th place to number 1. In English-speaking Twitch, a channel stands out for its very specific methods of accumulating viewership on Twitch. The favorites Asmongold and Quin69 are being left behind.
Where does jessirocks usually lie?
- The Austrian jessirocks ranks 59th among the most-watched German-speaking Twitch streamers with 2.8 million watched hours over the year.
- Although he has relatively high average viewership, he was only on the air for 1,070 hours – others in his field streamed around 1,700 hours on Twitch in the last 365 days.
- The Austrian specializes in Diablo 3. However, like many of his “Diablo 3” colleagues, he also shows games related to a new season such as UNDECEMBER, Path of Exile, Diablo Immortal, or Last Epoch.
This is how he is doing now: In the last 3 days, jessirocks has shot past everyone and landed in 1st place on German Twitch. Even ahead of Papaplatte, Gronkh, and Elias97:
- He was on air for 72 hours, keeping the stream running – If he isn’t streaming himself, others take over his channel. If no one is there, the stream just runs – even then, ten thousand people still watch.
- As a result, his average viewership is relatively low at night.
- But at peak, 22,198 viewers were watching. Because he streamed for the full 72 hours, he lands in 1st place on German Twitch. With 860,000 watched hours, he is far ahead of Papaplatte (612,000 hours) and GRONKH (373,000).
The GameStar conducted a major interview with Jessirocks and his assessment of Diablo 4.
Is anyone else benefiting from Diablo 4 in Germany? Yes, among the channels that are increasingly showcasing Diablo 4 on Twitch are:
- Bonjwa,
- Gronkh
- “Don’t make me aggressive”-ELoTRix
- the “I usually only play LoL” streamer NoWay4U
- and Maurice Weber.
How’s it going on English-speaking Twitch USA? The equivalent of jessirocks would actually be the hard-boiled New Zealander Quin69 in English-speaking Twitch. He is known for his passion for hack and slays, but also for a quirky style that repeatedly earns him bans like “That wasn’t misogynist, that was funny”.
However, Quin69 ranks only 3rd in Diablo 4 over the past 3 days, although he was on air for 45 out of 72 hours.
Even more successful than him is Shroud – the shooter expert with a secret passion for MMORPGs has spent 46 hours on Diablo 4 and even has more viewers than Quin69.
Although Asmongold has the most average viewers by far at 48,569 and also the most peak viewers for Diablo 4, he is only in 7th place because he has only streamed for 7 hours. Perhaps he was indeed upset with the Twitch boss for making fun of his hair.
Who is in 1st place? 1st place is held by the channel “Fextralife” – this has been critically discussed before.
Fextralife operates dedicated wiki pages for games with guides and integrates their Twitch channel everywhere: So if someone searches for English guides for Diablo 4, they often “unintentionally” watch Fextralife’s channel too.
This skews the numbers, but puts them in 1st place. The channel was also online for the full 72 hours.
Thanks to Lost Ark and Elden Ring, Twitch has a new biggest channel – But is that okay?
Update 6.6., 11:23 AM: A reader pointed out to us that the Twitch stream from jessirocks is embedded on German guide pages for Diablo 4 and is running continuously – similar to fextralife.
