New Twitch co-streaming feature a game-changer for esports

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 14/10/2025

Twitch are apparently adding a new feature which will make co-streaming an even more popular feature on the platform.

Over the last few years, esports have been revolutionised by co-streaming as popular content creators broadcast their live reactions to tournaments.

This has led to record-breaking viewership, including last year’s League of Legends World Championships with help from Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont.

Now, according to content creation reporter Zach Bassey, Twitch will soon introduce a brand-new co-streaming feature built into the platform.

Bussey claims that Twitch will soon have a built-in co-streaming option, which will combine viewership of multiple channels to the main broadcaster.

This means the original broadcaster’s stream will show the full, combined viewership on their channel.

For events like esports tournaments and award shows, this could be crucial in attracting sponsorships with concrete numbers easily accessible.

This also allows esports tournament organisers and other hosts to receive the full analytical data of all their streams.

Again, co-streaming has become a critical piece of esports broadcasting. It’s why Riot released a long list of co-streamers for LoL Worlds 2025.

It also combines communities, as Mark ‘ohnePixel’ Zimmerman’s co-streams led to outpouring support from the CS2 and Valorant communities for Jake ‘Boaster’ Howlett.

Though this feature could potentially convince Riot and others to open their co-streams up to all content creators, with no mention of whether this feature limits who can co-stream.

However, Bussey believes this Twitch will only allow this new feature to be used sparingly:

“It does sound like you cannot use this day-to-day, and it will ONLY be allowed for ‘Special Events’.

“So, unless you’re planning something significant, you likely will not be able to use this regularly.”

Will co-streaming be enough to bring esports viewers back to Twitch from YouTube?

Co-streaming has become a crucial feature for Twitch too, as it is exclusive to the platform.

While a lot of esports fans move over to YouTube for its smoother video player, ability to rewind, and ability to block ads on the site with Premium.

Today, the LoL World Championships 2025 started with T1 defeating Invictus Gaming in the Worlds Play-Ins.

This series smashed Worlds Play-Ins viewership records, with 2.4 million viewers in a near-75% increase on last year’s record.

That isn’t surprising considering the Play-Ins used to feature smaller teams, and reigning World champions T1 have a huge following.

And it isn’t surprising that of those viewership numbers, YouTube and Twitch were the most popular platforms.

However, at its peak, YouTube nearly doubled Twitch’s viewership for that series.

Esports have always been a crucial part of Twitch’s strategy, and it appears the streaming platform may need to continue adapting.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introuduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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