Bounceyboy Stream Stats

Hi! I was going through my stats page on twitch and thought I'd write down some of the more interesting ones!

I started streaming June 12th of 2014.

2014 Stats:
837 hours streamed in 26 weeks
32.19 hours per week streamed on average
Ended year with 2,180 followers
83.85 followers per week on average (11.98 per day)
Started with 8 average concurrent viewers (in the first month), ended year with 48

notes:
- I earned $0 in this time
- This started with a summer where I was very active, so the hours per week are skewed upwards a lot


2015 Stats:
1,219 hours streamed
23.38 hours per week streamed on average
Ended year with 10,060 followers
151.13 followers per week on average (21.59 per day)
Started with 48 average concurrent viewers, ended year with 220

notes:
- I got partnered in March, with an average viewercount around 80 (but 150 doing Sunshine 120 shines, which I did the week I applied)
- I earned about $3.20 per hour this year
- I made a youtube this year
- I really upped my stream quality this year, got a 720p webcam, a blue yeti mic and a Avermedia LGP capture card
- I also built a PC in December of this year, costing me $1400 (I was using a laptop that regularly overheated before)
*I still use the blue yeti, LGP and PC. In 2016 I bought a logitech c920 webcam though*

I won't say my income beyond this point because it might make it easier to figure out my twitch earnings which would violate my contract I think. But I didn't make over $10/hour in a single week until January 2017 (excluding large donations, though even with those, never more than $10/hour for a month, and only greater than $10/hour for three of the weeks from 2014 through 2016). I also never broke 250 subscribers until December 2016 (I have 585 sub points from 532 individual subscribers at the moment).



2016 Stats:
Twitch:
948 hours streamed
18.18 hours per week streamed on average
Average subscriber count: ~150, peaking at 263 in December.
Ended year with 21,020 followers
210.20 followers per week on average (30.03 per day)
Started with 220 average concurrent viewers, ended year with 430 (sunshine only, ~220 otherwise)

notes:
- I had sunshine any% world record for a large portion of this year
- I developed bad hand pain that remained for this entire year, which regularly prevented me from streaming



2017 Stats (as of June 1st):
434 hours streamed
19.73 hours per week streamed on average
Average subscriber count: ~500, peaking at 770 in January, dipping to ~400 in April, currently at 585.
Currently at 29,748 followers
396.73 followers per week on average (56.68 per day)
Started year with 430 average concurrent viewers for sunshine, currently 468 average concurrent
Started year with 220 average concurrent viewers for non-sunshine, currently 375 average concurrent

notes:
- I stopped doing mostly WR attempts on stream, began seriously running SM64 and learned 3 other games so far
- I found a fix for my hand pain, but school got in the way of streaming instead
- I was given partner spotlight in the 3rd week of January and gained 4000 followers and 300 subscribers that week (though it's important to note that I did my first ever subathon, with no time cap, which added a lot to the sub increase)
- Really broadened my horizons. I stream a lot of different games now, so lower average viewer increase, but more viewer loyalty when changing games now
- I was able to quit my regular job and became single again in May, so hours are likely to increase greatly in the coming months




Overall Stats:
3438 hours streamed
22.57 hours per week streamed on average
195 followers per week on average (27.91 per day) - this is a useless stat because it grows exponentially lol
Approximately 1/3 of my income comes from twitch prime subs, a little more than that comes from regular paid subs
A bit less than 1/3 of my income comes from other sources (donations, bits, merch sales)

notes:
- My hours per week includes weeks I took off, though outside of GDQs I've only ever taken 3 full weeks off - it's just the hours divided by weeks since I started.
- I have never made even $1 off of my youtube, but I often hear that twitch viewers found me through youtube
- I currently have 4,000 youtube subscribers, ended 2015 with 280, and ended 2016 with 2,400



Other stats:
- Top chatter in my stream is Overthemonkey, followed by me and then samgodro
- Top used emote is bboyShrug with almost 150,000 lifetime uses
- I usually stream 4.5 hours at a time, and have done two streams greater than 24 hours, and 12 streams greater than 12 hours
- My discord has just under 1000 members at the moment, it's public so it has subs and nonsubs in it
- I have 5,270 twitter followers, having started 2017 with 3,980. On average I tweet (not counting replies) 2.3 times per day now, compared to 6.2 at the start of the year
- I have a bot that posts my twitter/youtube/discord in the chat every 15ish minutes and since adding that I've noticed a very large increase in the number of people using those ways to keep up with me
- In the past 12 months I've streamed more SM64 than SMS, SMG being my 3rd most streamed game and TWWHD being 4th
- I have never had a set stream schedule, and as a result regularly take days off. I've always streamed just when I feel like it, which is usually streaming in the american afternoon (european evening) ~5 days per week
- I have done 3 GDQ runs in the 5 GDQs I've gone to, one in 2015, 2016, and 2017. All were sunshine runs.
- Probably >90% of my stream content has been speedrunning, I VERY rarely play casual games, but plan to start doing them sometime in the future.
- I believe that I get a much smaller percentage of my income from donations/bits compared to other streamers, usually my income is driven by subs, but I believe that streamers as popular as, or more popular than, me get about 50% of their income from donations/bits, but this is just an educated guess.


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What do these stats mean? Nothing really, I just thought I'd share the stats about my stream. I believe that my weekly hours streamed show that you can grow pretty reliably streaming ~20 hours per week, which can be done relatively easily with school or a traditional job, if people enjoy your stream's content. Money-wise, streaming was a "waste of time" until late 2016 for me, though now it pays just enough for me to live on.

I was pretty surprised by my hours streamed per week, I expected them to be in the high 20s or low 30s in 2016/2017, but they aren't. I think that quality > quantity for streaming, as long as you stream above a certain amount (probably 15 hours per week). But that's just my opinion and it's definitely debatable.

I also would like to point out that I considered streaming (and treated it as) strictly a hobby until January of this year. Now I treat it as a (very fun) job, and as a result you should likely expect a large hours increase in the rest of 2017 (going to shoot for at least 35 hours per week on average for the rest of summer and hopefully ~25 once school starts again). I think that if my growth continues with the same pattern, there is about a 40% chance that I will go full-time when I graduate college in a year, and a 60% chance I get a traditional job and still stream for fun with my spare time.

To anyone looking to grow a stream, I feel like I owe it to you to say these results are definitely not typical, and likely are significantly more difficult to achieve on twitch now, especially with how many more streamers there are. But it's possible! I recommend to not quit your day job and to treat streaming as a hobby until you are at least to where my stats were this year. It's hard to make a living on twitch, and I would not recommend trying to do it full time before you've "made it" and have a consistent (large) audience. I consider having "made it" to be having enough consistent income to live day to day (after taking 20-25% out of every month's earnings for taxes).

It also will be very interesting to see how the twitch affiliate program affects stuff like this for the new generation of streamers.

Thanks for reading! If you have any questions or comments or ideas for other stats to add to this, feel free to reply to my tweet. I stream at twitch.tv/bounceyboy and plan to continue to do so for a very long time.