Viewership on Twitch improves every year, but 2020’s growth was unlike anything the platform has seen before. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, Twitch’s more than 18 billion hours watched for the year represented an over 65-percent increase year-over-year, according to Twitch analytics site SullyGnome. In comparison, even the Fortnite boom of 2018 led by Ninja didn’t cause the same level of growth. That year, Fortnite’s more than 1.3 billion hours watched supported a more than 40-percent increase in viewership and the platform racked up 9.3 billion hours watched. Along with the Just Chatting category more than doubling its viewership, a combination of new games leaving their mark on Twitch in 2020 made a year filled with in-person event cancellations perhaps the most successful in Twitch’s history. Top 10 most-watched content Most-watched content in 2020 | Screengrab via SullyGnome Top category: Just Chatting Since Twitch broke the IRL category into a handful of sub-categories in the fall of 2018, Just Chatting has asserted its dominance. In its first full year as a category in 2019, Just Chatting was the third most-watched content on the platform with nearly 760 million hours watched. And this year, the category more than doubled that viewership,…
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Most-watched Twitch content in 2020
