With people from all over the world still complying with varying degrees of quarantine restrictions, from April to June they accounted for another quarter of the records broken on all four major streaming platforms, including the Mixer that will be closing soon.
According to a joint quarterly report by StreamLabs and Stream Hatchet, Twitch saw the biggest gains by far, going from a record high of 3.1 billion hours observed in the first quarter of 2020 to another new record of 5.1 billion hours seen in the second. trimester. .
That number increased 63% quarter-over-quarter and 83% year-over-year.
Around two billion total hours watched on Twitch took place in April alone, while the rest were tightly divided during May and June.
Twitch also set new record highs for hours aired and an average concurrent audience in the first quarter, which also broke in the second, with an average LCC of 1.4 million to 2.3 million in the second quarter.
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YouTube Gaming also experienced gains, going from 1,100 million total hours seen in the first quarter to 1,500 million in the second quarter, 40% more than the previous quarter.
The average CCV for YouTube increased from 498,000 in the last quarter to 692,000 in the second quarter, marking another new record high.
Facebook Gaming went from 554 million hours seen in the first quarter to 822 million in the second quarter, 49% more than the previous quarter.
His average CCV went from 256,000 in the last quarter to 381,000 in the second quarter.
At the bottom again was Mixer, which is closing at the end of July even though it apparently came out of its second best quarter ever. It went from 81 million hours observed in the first quarter to 106 million, marking the first increase that the platform has seen since the second quarter of 2019 when it established its historical maximum of 113 million hours.
The mixer also went from an average of 38,000 CCV to 50,000 in the last quarter, also gradually advancing to its all-time high in the second quarter of 2019.
On all streaming platforms, Valorant was the most viewed game in the second quarter at 534 million hours.
PUBG Mobile came in second with 237 million hours, and Fortnite reached 175 million.
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