Twitch is a live streaming platform that was launched back🧔 in 2011. Although the content is varied, the platform predominantly attracts gamers. In recent years its popularity has rocketed, and Twitch currently has over 2.2 million broadcasters and 15 million daily active users.
As the platform has grown so has both the popularity and the fortune of streamers. These content creators can earn money from Twitch in a variety of ways. The first is through ad revenue for any adverts shown on their streams. The second is through subscriptions, where viewers can pay either a set♔ fee month to support streamers. In return, they gain ad-free viewing, access to emotes and sometimes other perks the channel owner sets. Finally, streamers can make money via donations when viewers can use Twitch’s bits currency or just straight up cash to donate directly to creators.
Since percentage pay-outs vary and Twitch encourages streamers to keep quiet about the exact figures involved it can be difficult to work out exactly how much many of these streaming stars now earn. Donations make up a hefty amount of revenue, alongside sponsorship deals so high follower numbers don’♐t always mean high earning figures as both the above are incredibly unpredictable. The length of time streamers have been active🦩 will also affect their net worth.
Despite this lack of concrete information on earnings and net worth f꧑igures for streamers, the int⛎ernet has done its best to give us some numbers based on what we know.
Here are 🌠20 of the most popular Twitch Streamers and their es🔜timated worth and earnings.
20 Ninja
Estimated Net Worth $6 million – Earns approximately $560,000 a month
Ninja’s real name is Richard Blevins and he has a background in pro gaming. He played Halo 3 professionally for several teams including Cloud9 and Team Liquid. He is currently affiliated with Luminosity Gaming, where he currently plays PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. He streams mostly Fortnite but also plays League of Legends, H1Z1, and Halo.
He began streaming back on Justin.tv in 2011 before moving to Twitch.
Earlier this month he gained the achievement of being the first ever Twitch streamer to amass over 10 million followers and has an average of 50,000 viewers per stream. Ninja also has a YouTube channel which boasts over 17 m💃illion subscribers.
19 Myth
Estimated Net Worth $1 million – Earns approximately $35k a month
Myth or TSM Myth as he is also known, currently streams Fortnite on Twitch. His real name iℱs Ali 𓂃Kabbani and he also plays games professionally for Team SoloMid.
He started streaming with the game Paragon back in 2016. In late 2017 he switched to Fortnite Battle Royale and his ch♋annel exploded in popularity. He currently has over 4 million fꦗollowers on Twitch and often streams with other popular creators including Pokimane and summit1g.
He also has a YouTube Channel which has over 3.6 million subscribers. Here he posts Fortnite videos and highlights from his streams.
18 Pokimane
Estimated Net Worth $300k – Earns approximately $50k a month
Imane Anys is a Twitch streamer and YouTuber known as Pokimane. She mostly plays League of Legends and Fortnite. She has been activꦚe on the platforms since 2013 but has had breaks over that time, most notably in 2016 when she posted just 2 videos.
She was recently selected as one of 15 Twitch ambassadors for Twitchcon and a partner for Twitch Creator Camp.
Currently, she has over 2 million Twitch followers and more than 2.6 millio🌠n YouTube subscribers. Pokimane is also a member of Offline TV, a collaborative YouTube channel.
17 Summit1g
Estimated Net Worth $2.5 million – Earns approximately $30k a month
Jaryd Lazar, commonly known as summit1g is a retired Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro player. He played for A51 and Team Mythic before retiring to concentrate on streaming, which he has done since 2012. He streams a variety of games for his 3.2 million followers including PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto V, and DayZ.
As with many streamers🧔 Summit1g also has a YouTube channel, but unlike many others, his is very new. He only started it around a month ago and it contains just 12 videos at the time of writing, yet a☂lready has over 500,000 subscribers.
16 DrDisRespectLive ꧒
Estimated Net Worth $1m – Earns approximately $100k a month
Guy Beahm is a Twitch streamer known as Dr Disrespect who was crowned streamer of the year in 2017. He mostly plays battle royale games, including Fortnite, H1Z1 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for his 2.6 million Twitch followers.
DrDisRespect is a character which originated from Beahm’s Halo 2 playing days.
He featured in many YouTube videos in 2010, some of them for gaming channel Machinima. In late 2011 he went silent on the platform and didn’t release any𒀰 content for 5 years.
From March 2011 he worked for Sledgehammer Games, where he was a community manager and later a level designer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare before he quit in 2015 to focus 𝓡on streaming wꦜhere he has a series of high-value sponsorship contracts.
15 💛 TimTheTatman
Estimated Net Worth $1.5m – Earns approximately $10-$12k a month
Timothy Betar is better known as Twitch superstar TimTheTatman. He beg♏an playing games on Twitch in 2014 and his skills boosted his profile pretty quickly. He is k𒆙nown for not just his gaming but also his comedy content.
He plays a variety of games including Overwatch, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and World of Warcraft. His channel is more famiꦦly-friendly than some which has both advantages and disadvantages. He also has a YouTube Channel which has over 676k followers while his Twitch has over 2.6 million. His sponsorship deals with the likes of Cyberpower PC and Razer also help his ever-ꦬincreasing fortune.
14 Shroud
Estimated Net Worth $1 million – Earns approximately $36k a month
Shroud’s real name is Michael Grzesiek and he’s a former eSports player and a current Twitch streamer. He used to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professionally for Cloud9 but stepped down ꩵin A🌄pril of this year.
Since then he has been streaming PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) and H1Z1 fulltime.
His Twitch channel has over 4 million followers and his channel views are currently almost 200 million. He also has over 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube where he also posts PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Tom Clancey’s Rainbow Siege videos.
13 Imaqtpie
Estimated Net Worth $3m – Earns approximately $28k a month
Michael 🌳Santana started out his gaming career as a pro gamer. He built up his reputation and popularity and has p💖layed for Rock Solid and Dignitas.
In 2013 he started out on Twitch an⛄d left pro gaming the following year to concentrate on this new platform, where he is known as Imaqtpie. His nickname comes from his mother’s description of him.
He mostly streams League of Legends and has over 2.3 million followers on Twitch and almost 1.7 million on YouTube. Last year he stepped back into pro gaming joining Dඣelta Fox to play in the 2017 NACS Summer where the team came sixth.
12 Dakotaz
Estimated Net Worth $650k – Earns approximately $8k a month
Dakota, known online as Dakotaz or Dark is a Streamer and YouTuber who plays Fortnite professionally. He started off playing a number of different games including War-Z, Clearview PVP and Infestation. From here he moved into H1Z1 and The Forest.
He stumbled upon PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and those videos started to increase his fame, although he was still standing at around 100,000 subs when Fortnite was released. H🥀e swapped over and the game propelled him to his current heights.
He now has over 2.3 million YouTube subscribers and just over that iꦉn Twi🍨tch followers, which currently stand at 2.4 million.
11 Lirik
Estimated Net Worth $1.5m – Earns approximately $83k a month
Saqid Zahid is more commonly known as Lyrik. He has been a Twitch streamer since 2011 and also has a YouTube channel. He started his streaming career by playing World of Warcraft before switching to DayZ. He continued this pattern until 2017 when he began playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
Lirik didn’t get on with PUBG however and often complained about the game.
He currently streams a variety of games including Fortnite and has over 2.1 million Twitch followers and almost 260k on 🔯YouTube.