{"id":82044,"date":"2020-12-18T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=82044"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:30:35","slug":"2020-is-youtube-gamings-biggest-year-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/2020-is-youtube-gamings-biggest-year-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Is YouTube Gaming\u2019s Biggest Year, Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Collectively The World Watched Over 100B Hours Of Gaming Clips On YouTube \n <\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

With the world facing a lot of issues through 2020 a lot of us turned to the warm embrace of digital media, from music streaming<\/a> through to video games, and everything in-between. In fact a lot of us found ourselves leaping towards YouTube\u2019s Gaming <\/a>creators, whom had their biggest year ever on YouTube<\/a> in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube now boasts over 40 million active gaming channels<\/a> and, globally, there were over 100 billion hours of gaming content watch on the site. YouTube live streams<\/a> also grow exponentially during 2020 with over 10 billion hours watched. Creators such as LazarBeam<\/a>, Lyna<\/a>, MortaL<\/a>, CouRage<\/a>, TheDonato<\/a> and Typical Gamer<\/a>, who are exclusive to YouTube, streamed relentlessly. This even saw Valkyrae<\/a> (another YouTube exclusive streamer) grow to become one of the biggest female live streamers across all platforms. It was also the year for breakout creators with 80,000 gaming creators reaching 100,00 subscribers and over 1,000 creators hit 5 million subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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