The Streamable Streaming Report, October 2026

The short answer

On Streamable (streamable.run), in the 30 days to October 18, 2026, Twitch received 41.7% of streams and Kick 38.3%. Median stream length was 2.5 to 3.3 hours depending on platform, 21.2% of broadcasts went to two or more platforms at once, and 4 to 8 p.m. Pacific was the busiest start block.

These are numbers from our own service, not the whole streaming market. Read them as a picture of people who stream from the cloud, not of all streamers.

How we measured this

• Source: Streamable's own stream records, the cloud-OBS streams that went out through Streamable.
• Window: the 30 days to October 18, 2026 (all Pacific Daylight Time).
• What counts: streams that had ended and ran between 2 minutes and 72 hours, excluding ones that failed to start. Accounts belonging to our own staff are excluded.
• Desktop and IRL are both included. The data cannot tell them apart, so this report does not describe IRL streams alone.
• No raw totals. We publish shares and medians only.
• A note on platforms. One broadcast sent to Twitch and Kick counts once for each platform, so the first table is the share of streams sent to each platform, not the share of streamers.

Twitch and Kick are close to level on Streamable. We have no data on why, and this report does not compare against other services.

A median is the middle stream: half ran longer, half shorter. A few multi-hour marathons do not move it. The YouTube sample is more concentrated than the others, so we do not draw conclusions from it.

How many streams go to more than one platform

21.2% of broadcasts went to two or more platforms at the same time. About one broadcast in five was a multistream.

A broadcast here means destination streams from the same cloud OBS server whose times overlap. If you want to try it, the setup is covered in how to multistream with cloud OBS.

Starts build through the day and peak between 4 and 8 p.m. Pacific, with about a quarter of all broadcasts beginning in that block. The busiest single hour is 4 to 5 p.m. at 6.9%. We use Pacific time because it is our reporting clock, not a claim about where streamers live.

What to take from it

• If you stream to one platform and your audience is split, the data shows you are not unusual: roughly one in five broadcasts already goes to more than one.
• Streams of around three hours are normal here. If you test a setup, test it for that long; how to rehearse a stream before you go live covers a dry run.
• A crowded evening block does not mean you should copy it. Check your own analytics for when your viewers show up.

What this report does not show

It does not show how many people stream, how much, or how much they earn, and it says nothing about viewers. It cannot separate IRL from desktop streams. It reflects Streamable's users in one 30-day window and may differ from the wider market.

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