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[Lunatic_Gamer]

The Game Awards said Monday that its eighth annual show on Dec. 9 reached 85 million livestreams, up from 2020's 83 million and the highest to date.

On Twitch, the show delivered 3.35 million unique viewers. Meanwhile, on YouTube, the livestream saw 1.75 million hours watched on the main feed, up 14 percent from 2020. And online, authenticated fan voting — in which members of the community could vote for their favorite titles in every category — increased by 27 percent year-over-year to over 23.2 million via the main Game Awards website.

The Game Awards was launched 2014 and saw 1.9 million livestreams in its first outing. It reached double digits in 2017 with 11.5 million, going on to hit 26 million, 45 million and then 83 million in following years.

The Game Awards Claims High of 85M Views

On YouTube, the livestream of the video game industry's biggest event saw 1.75 million hours watched on the main feed, up 14 percent from last year.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Portugeezer]

Livestreams = VOD

 

[roosnam1980]

well it had tits and sydney goodman

 

[Haggard]

k

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Well deserved. Congrats. I love the Dorito pope, come at me.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

well it had tits and sydney goodman

Tits? I didn't watch the show, so I need some proof for this claim.

 

[Zones]

Based on what exactly?

The article itself mentions a few million Twitch viewers, and the main channel on YouTube has accumulated about 4 million views within the past two weeks, then if you add the awards stream from the likes of IGN, GameSpot and others, you will still end up with a total of maybe 10 million if we are being super generous.

How does this number then suddenly jump to about freaking 85 million? I mean is this award show secretly the most popular thing in China or what?

 

[Clear]

Find that kind dubious given that the show's timing made it basically the middle of the night for all Europeans. And sorry Geoff, but noone cares that much about trailers to pull an all-nighter to watch them... hell, even DF who have a professional interest couldn't be bothered!

 

[Kenpachii]

he had more viewers on twitch.

 

[Kenpachii]

Based on what exactly?

The article itself mentions a few million Twitch viewers, and the main channel on YouTube has accumulated about 4 million views within the past two weeks, then if you add the awards stream from the likes of IGN, GameSpot and others, you will still end up with a total of maybe 10 million if we are being super generous.

How does this number then suddenly jump to about freaking 85 million? I mean is this award show secretly the most popular thing in China or what?

Maybe he includes all trailer views unique with it or something.

 

[OrionNebula]

I watched maybe 10-20 mins out of a 3 1/2 hours show, but I still count as a viewer, I guess?

 

[Great Hair]

Tits? I didn't watch the show, so I need some proof for this claim.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Tits? I didn't watch the show, so I need some proof for this claim.

 

[Low Moral Fibre]

This maths sounds like me trying to mathematically justify why I deserve the majority of the Xmas Quality Street.

 

[roosnam1980]

Tits? I didn't watch the show, so I need some proof for this claim.

 

[adamsapple]

Congrats to Keighely and everyone else involved.

 

[Ribi]

I call bullshit. What are they tallying up any YouTube video views with vga in the title?

 

[GeorgPrime]

In that case look at her tits but dont look up.

 

[PuffyCan]

85m wasted their evening watching this shitshow, I only watched a trailers playlist someone posted here and I was dissapointed, would have been worse watching it live

 

[ethomaz]

I was again fooled to watch it

 

[PSYGN]

Haven't seen it once, didn't realize it was that popular.

 

[TheBomb]

I'll see you all next year!

 

[apowhungo]

congrats! it's only gonna get bigger

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

You mean the Woke Awards, amirite? Wasnt fooled this time by the over-hyper keighley.

 

[j0hnnix]

In that case look at her tits but dont look up.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 7 times, shame on my Mother and Father for raising such an idiot.

 

[carlosrox]

I mean, they've had a decent year or two but this wasn't one of them.

I think last year's wasn't so bad.

And yeah I call bullshit on that supposed viewership. They must be counting a whole hell of a lot of other things to get to that number.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Geoff Keighley is the GOAT. Each year gets better and better.

 

[Alex Anderson]

This is even worse than WWE PR

 

[amigastar]

Well deserved. Congrats. I love the Dorito pope, come at me.

I like him also. Imo he makes things move forward and creates somthing for gamers. Sure he looks a little bit arrogant but in the end i like him.

 

[yurinka]

Based on what exactly?

The article itself mentions a few million Twitch viewers, and the main channel on YouTube has accumulated about 4 million views within the past two weeks, then if you add the awards stream from the likes of IGN, GameSpot and others, you will still end up with a total of maybe 10 million if we are being super generous.

How does this number then suddenly jump to about freaking 85 million? I mean is this award show secretly the most popular thing in China or what?

The event was streamed by not only in Twitch, but in many western and Asian platforms. And not only by them and a few media outlets, but by hundreds or thousands of gaming media and streamers or youtubers.

 

[VN1X]

All hail Dorito Pope!

 

[Mozzarella]

Based on what exactly?

The article itself mentions a few million Twitch viewers, and the main channel on YouTube has accumulated about 4 million views within the past two weeks, then if you add the awards stream from the likes of IGN, GameSpot and others, you will still end up with a total of maybe 10 million if we are being super generous.

How does this number then suddenly jump to about freaking 85 million? I mean is this award show secretly the most popular thing in China or what?

Yeah i also question these numbers, they feel super inflated, like what? Twitch barely had 500k, i was watching on both Youtube and Twitch, and neither had over 1M. (Maybe they count streamers talking about it? or co-streaming?) still not above 5-10M
Plus this year the GOTY race wasnt really heated, i mean it was mysterious but few people cared this time, because of the nominated games.
And then we have that websites that gathers game awards, which i criticized in the previous year calling it inflated, it appears it was inflated that year, to hand out more awards than necessary, from many irrelevant places. Looking at it this year, we are near the end of December and the top game barely crossed 15 awards! lol. Now by the time March comes you will see the total awards is less than 200, which is hilarious given previous year it was 300+ for 1 game alone. Inflation is certainly a talking point when it comes to GOTY race, whether its awards or viewership. And i dont really believe it, its very sus.

 

[The Eradicator]

There's no way I'm going to believe that number. Geoff is so desperate to make the show into a bigger deal than it really is.

 

[Concern]

They're counting every Twitter/youtube view. 85 million didn't watch that whole thing lol. They're full of shit

 

[Saber]

I called that number after someone here called me a Sonic hater. I felt sad and offended. That hotline help me through this difficult process in my life.

 

[NeonDelta]

Sounds a bit like Steiner Math to me

 

[CitizenZ]

Wish there were achievements so you could see zero.zero unlocked completed watching the whole show and 90% show they unlocked, watched for 5 minutes.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Nice. A lot of work goes into making that show. Needs more comedy though. Bring back Joel you cowards.

 

[mckmas8808]

And this is why Geoff will take over that E3 time slot that the ESA is now giving up. Geoff could get 100 million views if he put together a good E3 showing.