YouTube Gaming hits 100bn watch-time hours, Minecraft leads

New Delhi, Dec 9 : YouTube Gaming has revealed that 2020 has been its biggest year ever, with 100 billion watch-time hours — double the number of hours watched in 2018 — and over 40 million active gaming channels.
Of that 100 billion watch-time hours, 10 billion were of YouTube Gaming live streams, signalling a strong competition for Amazon-owned Twitch.
The Google-owned platform said out of 40 million active gaming channels, 80,000 channels hit 100,000 subscribers this past year.
More than 1,000 channels broke 5 million subscribers in 2020, while more than 350 channels hit 10 million subscribers.
“In fact, there has never been a better time to be a YouTube Gaming creator. Over 350 gaming creators reached a whopping 10 million subscribers,” said Ryan Wyatt, Head of Global Gaming at YouTube.
Minecraft was the most-watched game on all of YouTube, with more than 200 billion views of live streams and uploaded video watched this year.