StreamElements, one of the best tools for content creators, released its stream report for July while partnering up with Rainmaker. The latest report contains a lot of takeaways, including Facebook Gaming’s success.
Facebook Gaming hits a milestone
Despite being the butt of jokes and internet memes, Facebook Gaming continues to grow larger in the larger streaming and lifestyle scene. In July, the streaming platform had 533 million hours watched, which is its highest point yet. After peaking to 439 million hours watched in January, the platform did not reach another milestone until this month. Considering June’s viewership, Facebook Gaming also enjoyed a 26 percent month-over-month(MoM) increase, alongside the 53 percent year-over-year growth.
Twitch lost numbers
The last couple of months have worked for Twitch because of the COVID-19 pandemic still raging across the world, forcing people to stay at home. As the restrictions started to be removed in some countries, Twitch’s number of hours watched decreased. In July, the platform’s hours watched regressed to 1.8 billion hours, but still it managed to get a 23 percent year-over-year growth.
Just Chatting leads the categories on Twitch
Losing viewership affected nearly all of the categories on Twitch, but Just Chatting still came out on top of the list with 234M hours watched and -5 percent month-over-month change. The biggest month-over-month differences occurred in Minecraft, which has a -27 percent MoM change, and in Warzone with -16 percent MoM change. While Valorant and CS:GO succeeded in keeping their viewers, Amazon’s new MMORPG New World made a successful closed beta debut with 34M hours watched.
Asmongold surpassed xQcOW
After a seven-month impressive streak by xQcOW, Asmongold finally took over the throne on Twitch based on hours watched in July. Despite being known as one of the biggest World of Warcraft streamers in the world, Asmongold grabbed the first place by playing Final Fantasy XIV Online. The streamer spent 51.8 percent of his total airtime on Final Fantasy, while showing a little love with 9.3 percent airtime to his main game World of Warcraft.
Facebook Gaming overall is still behind Amazon’s Twitch, although it had a historic month in July. However, increasing the viewership in the platform while the pandemic restrictions being lifted is quite impressive.
