Knowing how you guys "love" year recaps, I'm posting about another one. Yes, yes it gets kind of boring reading all this 'stuff' but bear with me as this one is worth your precious time.
, has released an interactive look-back on their work in the year 2015. So let's crunch some numbers.
With an average of 1.7 million broadcasters streaming every month, together they have streamed in
241,441,823,059 minutes in total (that's 459,366 in years), while averaging 550,000 concurrent viewers. Applying those numbers to the countries across the globe, we end up with a list of countries ba
sed on viewership. When it comes to the Americas; Canada and the US are leading the north and Brazil the south; Europe has five countries leading it and those are France, UK, Germany, Poland and Sweden; the rest of the world comes down to Moscow in Russian Federation and Taiwan in the South Eastern Asia.
Now let's check the tech. Twitch likes to boast with their Peak Concurrent Viewers and Peak Concurrent Broadcasters. First one noting 2,098,529 viewers recorded on August 23rd at two events ESL One: Cologne and the LoL NA LCS Finals; and the later noting 35,610 broadcasters in November last year, thanks to the launch of Twitch Creative and the Extra Life Charity event.
Now comes the real fun part. Top 10 most watched games list!
1. League of Legends
2. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
3. DOTA 2
4. HeartStone
5. Minecraft
6. H1Z1
7. Destiny
8. World of Tanks
9. World of Warcraft
10. FIFA 15
I guess the Top 4 is a given and there's nothing out of ordinary here. But it is quite interesting that among all eSports ti
tles and events that follow those games, four non-eSports games managed to enter the list. Basically, if you have a big pla
yer ba
se, a big fan ba
se follows suit and therefore a great amount of viewers who want to see and learn different approaches to the game they play.
Looking at the hype certain games have shown on their launch days, three ti
tles stand out. The first being an expansion for the game Destiny, it quickly became one of the Top 5 games for the next two months since the launch date. The runner-up is Fallout 4 and third one being Rocket League, a car soccer game, which went from 165th place to the top 5 in the first month of its release.
As of recently Twitch is moving across platforms and that of course means it's becoming more mobile. Viewers on mobile devices now make up 35% of Twitch's viewership every month. Considering there are 1,000,000+ mobile installs of the Twitch app last year alone, mobile devices are becoming a force to be reckoned with. As far as other platforms go, the web takes up 56% of the viewership; while consoles 7% and other means of viewing only 2%.
Tournament wise viewership records were beaten several times. Last year's most popular events were: ESL ONE - CS:GO in Cologne with 27 million unique viewers on Twitch; Evo 2015 an event focusing solely on fighting games; The International 5 a DOTA 2 event; LoL NA LCS and Blizzcon where the StarCraft 2 finals between sOs and Life took place.
Some notable fun facts! Total Twitch chat messages sent in the year 2015 counts 9,169,726,092 (that's 17,446 messages per minute)! Emoticons had their ranking as well, Kappa being the most used emoticon on Twitch chat.
If you wish to
go into detail and see more cool facts about Twitch, I definitely suggest you do so, as it is done in an interactive and fun way.
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ESL and Epic Games spawns another UT Pre-Alpha tournament. This time round it is the Summer Series 2016 which showcases two different game types as well as having two different continents battling it out. As it was the case in previous cups and tournaments, Europe and North America are there to give their best TDM teams and best duelers. There will be a series of 3 single-day cups per game mode out of which the sum from all 3 will see top 4 participants advance into the finals.
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