Is there a way to see the number of watchers for a category?

Thank you @merefield that got me 90% of what I needed and I was able to update your SQL statement to my needs like so:

SELECT c.name as NAME, 
COUNT(cu.id) as subscribers
FROM category_users cu
JOIN categories c ON cu.category_id = c.id
WHERE 
    c.name LIKE '%Announcements%'
    AND
    (cu.notification_level = 2 
    OR 
    cu.notification_level = 3 
    OR 
    cu.notification_level = 4)
GROUP BY c.id, c.name
ORDER BY subscribers DESC, c.name