Having 200 Billion Views, Minecraft Becomes the Most Popular Game on Youtube

GAMEFINITY.ID, Jakarta – YouTube Gaming head Ryan Wyatt said users of the video-sharing site YouTube have watched more than 100 billion hours of gaming content on the platform so far this year. This figure has more than doubled the number of hours watched in 2021. Of that 100 billion, 10 billion hours were YouTube Gaming live streaming, a strong sign that the Google-owned site is becoming a tougher competitor to Amazon’s Twitch.

Quoted from The Verge, Wyatt has a number of other interesting statistics. One of them is Minecraft which is the most watched game on YouTube, with more than 200 billion views for Minecraft live streams and videos uploaded this year. The next most watched game is Roblox with 75 billion views. Next, closing the top five games are Free Fire (72 billion), Grand Theft Auto V (70 billion) and Fortnite (67 billion).

YouTube says it now has more than 40 million active gaming channels, and 80,000 channels of which reach 100,000 subscribers. More than 1,000 channels broke 5 million subscribers in 2021, while more than 350 channels reached 10 million subscribers.

According to YouTube Gaming data, content creators experienced a huge increase in the number of subscribers, viewers and viewers throughout 2021. One example of the remarkable growth in 2021 was Minecraft content creator Dream, which saw a jump in subscribers from 1 million in January 2021 to more than 1 million subscribers. of 13 million in October 2021.

One of the reasons why gaming content is likely to surge in 2021 is the coronavirus pandemic that is increasing activity, such as streaming and multiplayer gaming.