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In Q3, YouTube Gaming Live had 8,200 concurrent streamers and 281,200 concurrent viewers to Twitch's 25,000 concurrent streamers and 736,700 concurrent viewers.
In fact, this represents a 12percentt decline in average concurrent streamers' and viewers' growth on YouTube, Streamlabs found.
It also saw a 33percentt increase in average concurrent streamers in Q1, going from 27K to 36K.
But YouTube Gaming dropped by 13percentt on this metric, going from 8.7K average concurrent streamers in Q4 2017 to 6.1K in Q1.
Twitch's streaming service saw some 27,000 concurrent streamers (the number streaming at the same time) in Q4 2017, while YouTube Gaming saw just 7,000.
According to a study by Streamlabs released this summer, Twitch today has a larger number of average concurrent streamers and stream viewers than YouTube.
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Though Twitch and YouTube are leading in terms of concurrent viewers and streamers, the services that saw the most growth in the fourth quarter of 2017 were Facebook and Microsoft Mixer, with 62percent and 588 percent growth in active streamers, respectively.
That said, overall, YouTube Gaming grew more quickly than Twitch in Q3, with a 56percentt increase in monthly active streamers (not concurrents) on Streamlabs' platform compared to Twitch's 16percentt growth.
The Twitch extension comes amidst more announcements at today's TwitchCon event, including the reveal of Squad Streaming and a karaoke Twitch Sings game for the service's average of 1 million concurrent viewers and half-million daily streamers.
However, the growth in streamers using Twitch hasn't yet paid off in terms of concurrent viewers, the report also found.
Super-popular streamer Ninja's live stream with Drake had more than 600,000 concurrent viewers, setting a record.
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