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The sandbox game, Minecraft has been viewed approximately....

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times over the social media platform, YouTube.

On the social media content platform, YouTube the most watched game by 2020 was Minecraft – a sandbox game developed by Mojang that has been viewed approximately 201 billion times.

Statista, 2021

The most watched game, Escape from Tarkov amassed a weekly hour total of

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in January 2022

On the live-streaming platform, Twitch. The most watched game was Escape From Tarkov in January 2022.

Statista, 2021

The leading subscriber on YouTube, PewDiePie has accumulated a total of

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YouTube subscribers as of 2022

By subscriber count the leading gaming channel on social media platform – YouTube is Felix Kjellberg also known as PewDiePie with an existing subscriber count of 111 million.

Statista, 2021

Facebook Game have managed to acquire

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concurrent viewers in Q3 of 2021.

On another live-streaming platform, Facebook Gaming the platform over 2021 has been able to yield 540,000 concurrent gaming viewers (542,000)

Statista, 2021

YouTube Gaming managed to accumulate

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on the platform in Q3 2021

The accumulated hours watched on the game streaming platform, YouTube Gaming amassed a total of 1.13 billion on a global spectrum.

Statista, 2021

Twitch Content Creators have streamed a total of...

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in 2021 Quarter 3

In Q3 2021, Twitch creators manage to garner a total of 229.9 million hours streamed – this represents a 8.2 percent decrease from the previously measured period.

Statista, 2021

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2022 Update
Gaming video content GVC revenue worldwide from 2016 to 2020 in billion U.S. dollars

In 2020, global gaming video content revenue reached 9.3 billion U.S dollars – this is up from 4.4 U.S billion dollars in 2016. Twitch has become the pioneer for streaming platforms in relation to game content

YouTube Gaming

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2022 Update
Which video game streaming sites have you used in the past 12 months in the United States

In the United States a survey conducted by the Statista Global Consumer Survey implicated that 49% of the respondents interacted with YouTube Gaming – the most percentage across all the video gaming streaming sites including Twitch, Facebook Gaming and Steam TV.

2022 Update
Which video game streaming sites have you used in the past 12 months

YouTube Gaming accumulates the most user share of 52% in the United Kingdom – above Twitch at 49% and Facebook Gaming at 30% in 2021.

2022 Update

YouTube Inoxtag is one of the most streamed channels on the YouTube Gaming platform with the French streamer garnering 11.6 million watch hours on the platform. Following Inoxtag includes jun channel with 10.9 watch hours, Felipe Neto with 9.16, Mixi Gaming with 8.92 and Typical Gamer with 8.57 watch hours.

2022 Update

92% of YouTube Gaming users regularly access the internet via a smartphone – this is 1% above the category users under video game streaming,

Twitch

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2022 Update
Most popular streamers on Twitch worldwide in January 2022 by total views in millions

In January 2022, Fextralife has amassed 1.8 billion lifetime views which has made the channel the most watched on the streaming platform following Riot Games (1.3b), shadbasemurdertv (719m), ESL, CSGO (719m) and Tyler Blevins also known as Ninja (562m).

2022 Update

In 2020, Twitch audiences watched over 1 trillion minutes of video content. This has been almost doubled the amount that was spent watching in 2019 – where viewers watched 660 billion minutes’ worth of content and while new viewers had bolsters, this had positively affected streamers putting out video content and the number of active streamers on Twitch stands at 9.36 million as of April 2021 compared to 7.2 million streamers a year ago in January 2020.

2022 Update

In 2021, titles within Twitch included games from Take-Two Interactive (Grand Theft Auto) at 6.5% viewer share followed by Riot Games (5.2% for League Of Legends; 3.8% for VALORANT), Escape from Tarkov (Battlestate Games at 4.4%) and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve Corporation at 3.3%).

Facebook

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2022 Update

Facebook Gaming concurrent viewers have gradually seen an increase in the three quarters of 2021 with Q3 accumulating 586,000 concurrent viewers

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