- The number of watched hours is declining for the second year straight. In Q1 2022 was a decline of 6%. Now – by 16% to Q1 2022.
- However, if we compare the number of watched hours with Q1 2019, we’ll see an increase of 46%.
- In Q1 2023 Twitch expanded its market share from 70% in Q1 2022 to 74%. YouTube Live Gaming is growing too – from 13% in Q1 2022 to 15% in Q1 2023. Facebook Live is not feeling so strong, it lost market share from 9% in Q1 2022 to 3% this year’s first quarter. This allowed AfreecaTV to become the third streaming platform in the world with 4% of the audience.
- League of Legends (422M watched hours), Grand Theft Auto V (397M watched hours), and Valorant (310M watched hours) are leaders in Q1 2023.
- Hogwarts Legacy in the first week (and 3 days of early access) got 69.3M hours watched. The game set a record for the number of simultaneous users for a single-player game – 1.28M people have been watching it.
- Resident Evil 4 received 27.3M hours watched in the first week; Sons of the Forest – 27.2M. Dead Space is #4 with 10.4M hours watched. Atomic Heart got 9.5M hours.
- The Last of Us series release positively affected the franchise gaming streams. The number of viewers increased by 106%, and the hours watched – by 107%.
