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This year, many of YouTube’s gaming creators and partnership tournaments raised awareness and money for several causes, including: The gaming community has always been willing to lend a helping hand when needed. We’ve also seen gaming creators give back in incredible ways this year.

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The channel’s speedrunning series drew in tens of millions of views each. One incredible example of growth in 2020 is Minecraft content creator Dream, who saw channel subscriptions surge from 1 million in January 2020 to over 13 million by October the same year. As the year comes to an end, let’s take a look back at the games, creators, moments and trends that brought us together even closer on YouTube.Ĭreators across the board have seen massive increases in subscribers, audiences and viewership throughout 2020.

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We met digitally for in-game concerts like Travis Scott’s in Fortnite major announcements for the year’s newest consoles and YouTube became the key destination for major esports tournaments around the world, such as the Call of Duty League, Valorant First Strike, Arena of Valor International Championship, ESL's Counter-Strike Pro League, Overwatch League, League of Legends Worlds, Free Fire League Championship, and many more!Īnd you’ve done it all on YouTube. This year, we also hosted five YouTube Gaming charity tournaments in Mexico, the United States and Europe to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts.Īnd while we couldn't get together in person, we were still able to share communal experiences virtually. We came together for good, as creators like Rooster Teeth, TheDonato and CoryxKenshin used their voices and channels to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts and more. Creators like LazarBeam, Lyna, MortaL, CouRage, TheDonato and Typical Gamer are streaming exclusively on YouTube, and we’ve seen Valkyrae grow to become one of the biggest female live streamers across all platforms since she started streaming exclusively on YouTube.Īs the year comes to an end, we’re reflecting on the moments, creators and trends that defined gaming on YouTube in 2020. (That’s like traveling to Neptune and back 475,000 times.) And live streaming on YouTube had an incredible year: We saw watch time from video game live streams grow to over 10 billion hours. We now have over 40 million active gaming channels and, globally, there were over 100 billion hours of gaming content watched on YouTube.

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