This year’s Game Awards has 85 million views -apkrig

This year’s The Game Awards broke a historic record in the number of live streams launched. On the main channel of the whole event, together with all the restreats, the organizers, led by Geoff Keighley, recorded an incredible 85 million connections on approximately 30 platforms. Of course, the number does not reflect the possibility that one stream was watched by more people and is significantly increased by the number of disconnections and connections of unique viewers who simply did not watch the whole broadcast from start to finish, but left and arrived within the given 4 hours. Just for the sake of context, we add that last year the counter stopped at 83 million streams, which also brings the answer as to whether the chosen format is successful for spectators or not.

According to a press release, the event also set a record in terms of social media interactions, recording over 1.6 million tweets during the broadcast. For the eighth year in a row, The Game Awards also became the most trending topic on the mentioned social network. In terms of the number of unique viewers watching at the same time, the organizers of the Game Awards did not provide a number, but announced that 3.35 million viewers watched Twitch on this year and recorded 1.75 events on YouTube. observed hours in cumulative total. The reason Geoff Keighley didn’t boast the maximum number of concurrently connected viewers may be that it simply didn’t have to be higher than last year. A year ago, 83 million streams on 40 platforms were transformed into 8.3 million concurrent followers, but the whole event was about half an hour shorter this year, so it was possible to beat some of the statistics without a higher number of viewers. To add to the numbers, we also add that the organizers recorded 23.2 million votes from the audience, but again this is a cumulative total, not an absolute number of voters.

However, all available numbers, although impressive, can also be interpreted in the opposite way, looking at the historical table of the first data, ie the number of live streams. For the first time in the history of the Game Awards, the year-on-year increase is negligible and amounts to only percentage units, not tens, as in the past. The largest increase came between 2016 and 2017, when it doubled the number of live streams. And between 2019 and 2020, that number jumped from 45.2 million to 83. Last year’s transmission was attributed to a pandemic and the fact that anti-coronavirus measures have become a popular pastime for a larger percentage of people than usual. However, the event held this year will probably hit the ceiling of interest and only the next award will indicate whether it is still possible to climb somewhere.