Over 27.9 billion hours watched across Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Facebook Gaming in 2020 …

Throughout 2020, viewers watched a combined 27.9 billion hours of content across all platforms, with viewership reaching 8.26 billion hours in just Q4 alone, according to a data report from Streamlabs and Stream Hatchet. YouTube Gaming nearly doubled its total watch time from 3.19 billion to 6.19 billion, while Facebook Gaming saw the largest growth in terms of percentages, jumping to 3.1 billion hours from 1.09 billion hours. Image via Streamlabs and Stream Hatchet Twitch still remains the top dog when it comes to all streaming content, setting more records for the industry, including most hours watched in one quarter with 5.44 billion hours in Q4. The platform alone accounted for more than 50 percent of the 8.26 billion hours watched in totality across the three services to close out the year.  Image via Streamlabs and Stream Hatchet For streamers, they broadcasted 916 million hours of content across all platforms in 2020. That is a 45.4 percent increase from 629 million hours streamed in 2019, with Q4 accounting for 255 million of those hours.  Specifically for Twitch, the platform saw a 67.36 percent jump in hours watched from 11 billion in 2019 to 18.41 billion hours in 2020. This growth…
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