Twitch has become one of the social phenomena of the moment and the main streaming video game platform, far surpassing the figures of YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming.
2020 has been a great year for all video game streaming platforms. The coronavirus pandemic and the imposition of stays at home for several months of the year, together with social distancing and coronavirus precautions, have catapulted data for viewing time for digital content, including streaming video games in particular.
This has helped both channels, but according to data from StreamElements and Arsenal.gg, Twitch is the one that has emerged the most triumphant. The Amazon-owned network reported 17 billion hours of video game streaming in 2020, 83% more than was recorded in 2019 as it handled 9 billion hours of playback.
The best month of the year for Twitch was exactly December, which confirms the upward trajectory that could begin in 2021. In the last month of the year, 1.7 billion hours of video game streaming were played on Twitch.
The rest of the streaming platforms also recorded much higher figures in 2020 than in previous years. YouTube Gaming hosted 10,000 million hours of viewing, while Facebook Gaming, Facebook's specific content distribution site for video games, grew to 3,590 million hours, an improvement of 166 per cent relative to the previous year's statistics. In which he was released.
In the other hand, there was also a historic moment on Twitch yesterday, when the highest number of viewers in the same broadcast was surpassed. It was the Spanish-language David "TheGrefg" Martinez who managed to pull together more than two million live viewers.