HighlightPilot Twitch Engagement Report — Week 40, 2026

Key findings

• Five Hearts Under One Roof 2 led chat velocity at 7.75 msg/s average across 3 monitored channels.
• Among Us led average concurrent viewers at 34,199 across 12 channels.
• Highest average audience: kaicenat (564,500 avg viewers, peak 690,631).
• Radar-monitored channels averaged 6,638 concurrent viewers (P95 20,944; max sample 690,631).
• Largest named spike: strogo (Counter-Strike) peaked at 44.9× baseline for 51m 6s. Peak viewers 15,714.
• Hottest chat hour was 18:00 UTC (1.44 msg/s avg).
• Peak average viewership hour was 19:00 UTC (10,394 avg viewers).
• Quietest sampled hour was 07:00 UTC (0.52 msg/s avg).
• Sun was the most active weekday for chat velocity (1.07 msg/s avg).
• 5,287 named engagement spikes were recorded; average closed-spike length was 13m 32s.

Methodology

HighlightPilot Radar samples live Twitch channels on the public Radar map roughly every 600 seconds. Each sample records concurrent viewers plus chat velocity (messages/sec vs each channel's baseline). Engagement spikes open when velocity multiplier reaches 2.5× (with at least 1 msg/s of chat over a baseline of at least 0.3 msg/s) and close below 1.6× or when the channel leaves Radar. Spike durations above 6 hours are excluded from duration statistics. Viewer metrics are concurrent viewers observed on Radar-monitored live channels at sample time — not Twitch-wide totals. Opted-out creators ar…

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