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Stream Hatchet: Streaming Gaming Market Landscape in 2021

GTA V is the king. Officially.

Dmitriy Byshonkov
Feb 1, 2022
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  • Users have spent 21% more time in 2021 watching gaming streams.

  • Twitch is the main platform for gaming streams. YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming are far behind.

  • In 2021 Twitch reached 24.3B of viewed hours. YouTube Gaming - 5B hours, Facebook Gaming - 4.8B hours.

  • Battle Royale, open-world games, and MOBA are leading the genre’s top.

  • GTA V is the main game of the year with 2.7B of viewed hours. League of Legends is second (2.01B of hours), Garena Free Fire is third (1.23B of hours). There are 3 mobile games in the top-10 - except Garena Free Fire - PUBG Mobile & Mobile Legends: Bang Bang reached the top.

  • By Stream Hatchet assumptions, streams earned $811M in Twitch in 2021. There have been around 76.3 thousand streamers on the platform last year.

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