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Gaming remains among among one of the most dominant pillars of online entertainment, as well as run-of-the-mill is that other fair-and-square than in YouTube's 2020 statistics. According to YouTube Gaming latrine Ryan Wyatt, users of the video-sharing site watched 100 billion hours of gaming content on the belvedere this past year, double the ordinal of hours watched in 2018. The hair-comb moreover published a blog column on Tuesday with a other nonspecific briefing of 2020.

Of that 100 billion figure, 10 billion of those hours were of YouTube Gaming live streams, a strong sign the Google-owned site is sketching up to be an plane other formidable competitor to Amazon-owned Twitch.

You all watched an impressive 100 billion hours of Gaming video content on the platform, with over 10B of those hours hawkish from live gaming streams. If you remember, that's DOUBLED what we did in 2018 (50B+). Yes, Gaming on YouTube has doubled in admeasurement in just 2 years.

-- Ryan Wyatt (@Fwiz) December 8, 2020

Wyatt had some other obsessing stats to share. For instance, Minecraft was the most-watched sassy on all of YouTube by a largish margin, with other than 200 billion vista of Minecraft live streams as well as uploaded video watched this year. Naturally, the verging most-watched sassy on the belvedere was Roblox with 75 billion views, as well as the top stubble are sloped out by mobile confrontation royale Garena Determining Fire (72 billion), Grand Annexation Automobile V (70 billion), as well as Fortnite (67 billion).

YouTube says it now has other than 40 million exertive gaming channels, as well as that 80,000 channels hit 100,000 subscribers this past year. Other than 1,000 channels impecunious 5 million subscribers in 2020, while other than 350 channels hit 10 million subscribers.

"Creators latitude the shire hypothesize smattery massive increases in subscribers, audiences as well as viewership throughout 2020. One incredible paradigm of headway in 2020 is Minecraft content creator Dream, who saw groove subscriptions thunderhead from 1 million in January 2020 to over 13 million by October the same year," reads YouTube's blog post. "The channel's speedrunning series drew in tens of millions of vista each."

Part of the reason why gaming content has likely surged in 2020 is the onrushing coronavirus pandemic, which has beatific online facetiousness stats through the roof for activities like streaming TV as well as multiplayer gaming. We don't yet hypothesize stats for Facebook Gaming or Twitch, however it would not be unanticipated for both those competitors to residency almanac numbers vanward the end of the month.

Correction: A previous adaptation of this chattel stated that the most-watched games on YouTube were measured in hours viewed. That is incorrect; YouTube measures them by totalistic ordinal of views. We repining the error.

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