Valorant Tops Streaming Charts as Global Game-Streaming Explodes in April
May. 14, 2020Twitch continues to remain the undisputed leader in the industrywith 1.49 billion hours of game-related streams viewed last month, or 1.65B hours overall, including non-gaming content, like music, Just Chatting, etc. YouTube Gaming remained a distant second with 461 million hours ahead of Facebook Gaming and Microsoft’s Mixer.Chart Courtesy: StreamElements
As for what attracted the most interest on Twitch during last month,the clear winner was Riot Games’ much-awaited tactical shooter, Valorant, which launched its closed beta in early April. The game smashed records for Twitch viewership with 334,165,761 hours watched on the platform. As seen in the chart below, Twitch’s ‘Just Chatting’ category came in at number two with 134,769,955 hours ahead of League of Legends, Fortnite and CS: GO.Chart Courtesy: StreamElements
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