The Game Awards person been breaking their ain records year-over-year and the 2021 amusement was nary different.
Last year, The Game Awards 2020 broke records with implicit 83 cardinal viewers, and this year, the amusement had an estimated 85 cardinal tune successful by mode of “global livestreams.” Like erstwhile grant shows, this year’s lawsuit was livestreamed across much than 30 integer networks astir the satellite specified arsenic YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and more.
“On Twitter, The Game Awards delivered a record-setting 1.6 cardinal tweets astir the lawsuit successful 2021, its best-ever performance,” a property merchandise reads. “The amusement trended #1 worldwide for the 8th twelvemonth successful a row, commanding 11 retired of the apical 30 worldwide trends astatine the highest of conversation.”
Over connected YouTube, a caller grounds for ticker clip was made with implicit 1.75 cardinal hours watched connected the main Game Awards stream, which does not see co-streams. That’s up 14% compared to past year’s show. Year-over-year, instrumentality voting accrued 27% to much than 23.2 cardinal votes.
“We are grateful we could instrumentality to an in-person ceremonial successful 2021 and proceed to physique connected our occurrence with important planetary maturation successful 2021,” The Game Awards shaper and host, Geoff Keighley, said.
For much discourse astir this year’s record-breaking 85 cardinal livestream numbers, here’s a look astatine the numbers for erstwhile years:
- 2021: 85 million
- 2020: 83 million
- 2019: 45.2 million
- 2018: 26.2 million
- 2017: 11.5 million
- 2016: 3.8 million
- 2015: 2.3 million
- 2014: 1.9 million
If you weren’t 1 of the 85 cardinal livestreams, don’t interest – here’s Game Informer’s database of each victor from The Game Awards 2021.
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