YouTube Game Watch Time Doubles In 2020 To 100 Billion Hours; Minecraft Still Rules The Views

YouTube Game Watch Time Doubles In 2020 To 100 Billion Hours; Minecraft Still Rules The Views

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YouTube users watched more than 100 billion hours of gaming-related content in 2020, double the amount of just two years ago, the online-video giant said today in its annual roundup of game-related viewing trends.

Some things haven't changed: Minecraft remains the subject of the most YouTube conversation, some 201 billion views of videos about the kid-friendly world-building title from Mojang and parent company Microsoft.

The latest eye-popping stats were yet more markers in a pandemic-cursed year of lockdown and recession that gaming still managed to be culturally omnipresent, with live streaming's boom, the presence of traditional athletes and sports leagues in esports, Travis Scott's hugely popular concerts in Fortnite, and hefty venture-capital investment in game-related startups.



The year's statistics also reveal the boom in gaming overseas. That's particularly so with mobile titles that are huge in parts of the world where PC and console market penetration is relatively low. Mobile titles make up more than half the global game revenues of around $150 billion, according to various analyst estimates.



Nowhere was that overseas growth more