Twitch Had 21 Million Viewers all the way through E3

Gaming reside-stream platform Twitch reached a high level all over the E3 gaming convention two weeks in the past: more than 21 million distinctive viewers and 840,000 top concurrent viewers. these incredible numbers are great information for the Amazon-owned carrier—and point out which advertisers may well be excited about gaming simulcasts with sports broadcast-fashion are living commentary.

“With more than 21 million distinctive viewers tuning in to just about 12 million hours of content, we proceed to be both appreciative and awestruck via the make stronger we get from our passionate community,” Twitch programming director Marcus Graham said via electronic mail. “We credit them for now not only tuning into hours and hours of E3 gaming goodness, but for bringing their very own voice to the combo through co-streaming our broadcasts.” The 840,000 concurrent viewers that Twitch boasts from E3 tuned into one of the press conferences on June 15. the company, citing commitments to its content material partners, declined to say which convention it used to be.

The service has more than a hundred million distinctive monthly viewers, most of whom have money to spend. Amazon received Twitch in 2014, basically for its merchandising attainable since the platform offers a lot of ad merchandise. on the lookout for that coveted disposable income-possessing gamer demographic, YouTube launched a Twitch competitor known as YouTube Gaming earlier this month.

replace: this text has been updated to replicate Twitch’s current viewership numbers.