Video game streaming trends report 2020

The video game streaming trends report 2020 summarises the central trends from online streaming across the computer games landscape. Information, insights and trends included in the report include:

  • Weekly streaming hours watched, by platform (i.e. Twitch, Facebook Gaming, YouTube Gaming)
  • Hours watched per quarter and by platform
  • Analysis of YouTube Gaming’s explosive growth
  • The emergence of Facebook Gaming
  • Top 10 games of the year (by hours watched)
  • Top 10 streamers watched (by hours watched)
  • Top 5 female streamers (by hours watched)
  • Streamer audience demographics and Twitch channel owner gender profile
  • Video game advertising
  • Mobile game streaming hours watched
  • Top 5 esports tournaments (by hours watched)
  • US Election Day streaming summary
  • Streaming platforms moving beyond just gaming content
  • The rise of politics streaming

Headline trends in the report include:

  1. Video game live streaming hours watched grew 69% in 2020
  2. League of Legends surpassed Fortnite as the most popular video game in live streaming, generating nearly 2 billion hours watched
  3. 30% of video game viewers are female, yet only 2% of the top 250 Twitch influencers are female
  4. Politicians are leveraging gaming ecosystems to reach young audiences who have disconnected from traditional media sources. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reached a peak of 438K viewers streaming Among Us

Click here to read the video game streaming trends report 2020.

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