Twitch at present launched details about its viewership and engagement in 2024: What everybody was streaming and watching all year long. In keeping with Twitch, Grand Theft Auto V stays the preferred recreation on the platform, with titles like League of Legends and Valorant additionally rating excessive in numbers. The platform additionally reported that it holds a 60% share of the worldwide gaming livestream viewers, which watched Twitch for over 15.6 billion hours.
The platform’s content material creators streamed Grand Theft Auto V for over 25.8 million hours, whereas viewers watched over 1.4 billion hours of the sport. League was the runner-up with 1.19 billion hours, and was additionally the most-watched recreation in Germany and France. Different titles to make it onto the leaderboards embrace Valorant, Fortnite and Name of Obligation. It’s most likely not a shock that esports video games make up a big a part of the record.
Twitch additionally famous that VTubers have surged in recognition in recent times, with a ten% improve in hours watched on their streams year-over-year. British VTubers have seen the most important surge, with 200% development in hours watched, although the style itself is hottest within the U.S. and Japan along with the U.Ok. Different main streamers on the platform have performed host to main occasions in 2024, together with Kai Cenat’s 30-day Subathon and Ibai’s boxing occasion.
The recognition of Grand Theft Auto V seemingly presages the potential recognition of its successor, Grand Theft Auto VI, which is because of launch someday later this yr. GTA V has lengthy supported artistic roleplay each in the primary recreation and by way of GTA On-line, so Grand Theft Auto VI might cater to that huge viewers.
