There's a lot of information from
Streamlabs & Newzoo Q4 Year in Review Live Streaming Industry Report but here's some more information regarding the streaming platform wars:
- Twitch is still leading but experienced an overall decline in 2019.
- The total hours watched on YouTube Gaming Live increased by 46% from Q1 to Q4 in 2019 and accounted for 27.6% market share in terms of hours watched for Q4, up 7% since last quarter.
- Last quarter, YouTube Gaming Live was the only platform to see an increase in hours watched, streamed, and concurrent viewership.
- Mixer more than doubled its number of hours watched and streamed when comparing 2019 to 2018.
- Mixer has nearly the same number of unique channels streaming on the platform as Twitch. Mixer also has more than triple the number of unique channels compared to YouTube Gaming Live.
- Riot Games was the most-watched publisher of 2019 across all platforms, beating Epic Games by 25.1 million hours
- 28.5% less Fortnite content was watched in 2019
Mixer
As we noted last quarter, based on the jump in hours streamed, Ninja's move to Mixer seemed to have encouraged many other streamers to start broadcasting on the platform. In Q4, Shroud announced he would also be exclusively streaming to Mixer. At the time, Shroud had over 6.9 million followers on Twitch, making him the third-most-followed channel behind Tfue and Ninja's now-inactive channel. While year-over-year growth for Mixer is still impressive, despite the recent exclusivity deal with Shroud, the numbers are lower quarter-over-quarter.
There was an 8.5% decrease in hours watched on the platform from Q4 to Q3. Despite this decrease, It's important to note that Mixer still more than doubled the number of hours watched when comparing the totals from 2019 to 2018. In Q3, the number of hours streamed on the platform more than doubled, thanks in part to Ninja's move. In Q4, Shroud's move seemed to help maintain this momentum. Quarter-over-quarter, the number of hours streamed decreased by 12.9%; however, 80.3 million hours of gaming video content were streamed to Mixer in 2019 vs just 35.2 million hours in 2018.
Similarly, compared to last quarter, we saw a major increase in the number of unique channels streaming to Mixer. In Q4, there was a 7.5% decrease from last quarter. There was a 78% increase in unique channels streaming to platform in 2019 compared to 2018.
The average concurrent viewers on the platform decreased by 8% from Q3 to Q4. There was a 55.1% increase in total concurrent viewers for 2019 compared to 2018.
Of course there's more in the linked text above, but here's some actual statistics regarding these platforms and comparing them. I wanted to bring this to light before people start comparing the platforms without having any evidence to back it up.