Summary
YouTubestar Minato Aqua was the most popular female streamer in Q3 2024, based on peak viewer figures. That’s according to a recently emerged report that suggests the majority of the most-watched female streamers during this period were active onYouTuberather than Twitch.
This data comes from Streams Charts, a third-party tracker that regularlyreports on streaming industry trends. In recent years, the analytics company’s insights suggested that VTuber personas have been taking over female streaming.
This trend is seemingly showing no signs of slowing down, according to Streams Charts' latest report, which states thatVirtual YouTubersaccounted for over half of the top 10 most popular female streamers in Q3 2024, based on peak concurrent viewer figures. The company’s newest list is topped by Minato Aqua, a “virtual maid” whose Aqua Ch. channel peaked at 735,000 viewers at one point during the observed period, which is more than the next five streamers combined.
735,000
158h
170,000
239h 25m
151,000
164h 40m
140,000
35h 10m
121,000
1,221h 15m
113,000
283h 5m
110,000
217h 15m
108,000
54h 25m
94,000
274h 45m
80,000
223h 40m
Only two content creators from the newly shared list defy this trend. One is the Puerto Rican streamer Alondrissa, who registered 151,000 peak concurrent viewers and consequently placed third in the rankings. The other isTwitch star Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, whose 121,000 viewer peak had her ranked fifth in the third quarter of 2024. Amouranth is also the most prolific among Streams Charts' top 10 content creators, on account of being live for over 1,221 hours during the observed period. That’s nearly 51 days of airtime in a span of just three months. The rest of the top 10 spent 1,650 hours streaming combined in Q3.
Not only is the newly shared chart dominated by virtual personas, but all of them ranked in the top 10 happen to beHololive VTubers. This serves as yet another testament to how far the Tokyo-based talent agency has gotten since its 2016 beginnings, and suggests that its content creation efforts are currently at their absolute peak. Hololive’s Japanese branch is still the most successful of the lot, although the Q3 2024 top 10 list does include one of its English channels, Koseki Bijou, which placed 10th with a concurrent viewer peak of 80,000.
Looking at the bigger picture, Hololive’s Usada Pekora is still leading the rankings for 2024’s most-watched female streamer. Her YouTube channel has so far amassed over 26 million hours of watch time since the turn of the year and seems likely to keep growing in the near term.
