YouTube Gaming suffered a staggering decline in viewership through Q3 of 2024, according to a recent report published by Streams Charts. It was revealed that the titanic content platform saw a drop of 27% in viewership, despite several events surfacing during that window that should have boosted viewer counts.
There was also a 13.6% downturn in viewership across YouTube Live, despite a whopping 13.1 billion watch hours being recorded in Q3 2024.
Changing Landscape
YouTube might have suffered from a considerable drop in viewership through Q3, but it’s still sitting at the top of the content creation table. In the report published by Streams Charts, it was outlined that YouTube’s market share in terms of content distribution sits at around 66.7%.
Behind YouTube sits Twitch with a market share of 19.1%, which is a testament to how successful YouTube remains in this industry, which is quickly becoming saturated with platforms.
Streams Charts’ data showed that the likes of Kick and AfreecaTV are growing rapidly, with the former platform securing a 15.6% growth in hours watched between July and September 2024. As much as people might hate the platform, it’s now the third most people streaming and content-sharing solution around.
As a whole, more than 19.7 billion hours of content were consumed in Q3 2024. These figures were secured – and continue to grow – amidst a packed esports schedule featuring titles like League of Legends, Free Fire, and PUBG.
It’s easy to see why streaming and creating content is becoming such a lucrative career path for many thousands of people worldwide. As trends are seeing cinema ticket sales drop and streaming viewership figures grow (on most platforms), it’s becoming clear that today’s young viewers would rather watch a content creator on their phone than head down to catch a movie.
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No duh YouTube is a dead platform the only name on there is Doc funny with all their guidelines they still let him on there. Peak YouTube gaming was with Cobanermani456 now that he’s gone I think they deleted his channel they’re done and PewDiePie retired the king. Kick and Rumble run the game now and TikTok is king. Google should just close down YouTube and honestly Amazon should kill off Twitch no one uses it and the platform is trash Iron Mouse and other VTubers are banned for nothing but outright “corn” is allowed and other sickos who defend it or weird radical political people like Hasan with a rich dad that won’t get a real job at the age of 40! If the Government is going after TikTok for endangerment then go after YouTube/Google, Amazon/Twitch, Meta/Instagram, X/Twitter, Only Fans, and all the “corn” companies especially the ones backed by Canadian venture capital and tax payer money that’s doing the damage not short form video which YouTube is also doing and they do nothing about or Kai Cenat having cornstars on his streams for kids!
YouTube sucks bro the content creators are trash not just Live but videos too and shorts.
YouTube is a boomer platform the creators are annoying and way too out of touch notice all the creators are like 40 or close to it and gatekeep they don’t like when their narratives don’t match. Twitch mostly has the same problem and the current kids will outgrow Kai Cenat at some point or a controversy could hit him too like old ones from the past. Kids will outgrow Speed too, this shows he and Dr Disrespect aren’t enough to hold the platform up or Valkyrie
Everyone is on Kick not Twitch or YouTube the dinosaur platforms
In Q3, Kick recorded 604 million watch hours. In the same window, YouTube and Twitch scored a collective 19.1 billion watch hours. Do you want to rethink that comment?