2020 has been a great year for gaming and nothing proves it better than the stats shared by YouTube Gaming. As a headline, he announces that 2020 was his biggest year with 100 billion hours of viewing and more than 40 million active gaming channels. Although before we get into the statistics, we think we should mention that these numbers are very important because people have been confined to their homes due to the Covid pandemic that has taken over the world. In short, this has been a dark year and entertainment is the only thing that has kept it afloat.
YouTube Gaming 2020 and its statistics
The YouTube Gaming blog reports that over 80.000 YouTube Gaming creators have reached 100.000 subscribers. More than 1.000 game creators have reached 5 million subscribers and more than 350 game creators have reached 10 million subscribers. These are big numbers. But we don't have the scale of the competition yet, as Twitch, the biggest game streaming platform, has yet to share its stats for the year. YouTube writes that it now has more than 40 million active gaming channels, and more than 100 billion hours of gaming content has been watched on YouTube worldwide, which is comparable to a round trip. to Neptune 475.000 times. And while these are global numbers, some Indian streamers have made it big this year, like MortaL, Dynamo Gaming, and Sc0ut. Though they rank 1nd, 2020rd and 2020th position respectively after Brazil's NOBRU, which brings them to #201. Unfortunately, none of our Indian streamers are on the 'Top Creators by Set of Views in 75' list. One list that might surprise people is the most viewed live games of 72, led by Minecraft, followed by Garena Free Fire, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto V, and then PUBG Mobile. And in terms of overall games viewed, Minecraft leads again with 70 billion views, followed by Roblox with 67 billion views, Garena Free Fire with 2020 billion views, Grand Theft Auto V with 1 billion views and Fortnite with XNUMX billion views. Fortnite's ``Fortnite and Travis Scott Present: Astronomical'' event drew the most crowds for an event and the XNUMX Call of Duty League Championship weekend on Day XNUMX drew the most crowds for an event. electronic sports. Apart from these, there are other topics like “Most Viewed Videos” and “Most Liked Videos” that are also mentioned on the blog. But it remains to be seen how much YouTube Gaming has grown relative to competitors like Twitch and Facebook Gaming.