Twitch continues to grow in Q1 2021, but YouTube Gaming is lagging
Streaming platforms Twitch and Facebook Gaming have seen considerable growth in the first quarter of 2021, but YouTube ā¦
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Twitch is still the biggest streaming platform by far with 6.3 billion hours watched in Q1 2021; YouTube Gaming 1.4 billion, Facebook 1.1 billion
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Honestly youtube and facebook are so annoying to navigate in comparison to Twitch. I don't know how they manage to make their layout so clunky.
Thread title is misleading. The article says the hours are for YT and FB Gaming specifically - an important distinction.
The difference is quite impressive, even if the order is unsurprising.
Personally been using youtube a lot more than twitch lately, but I wish it didn't murder my CPU. Youtube live chat is more demanding on my PC when things get busy than playing modern games, it's insane.
Personally been using youtube a lot more than twitch lately, but I wish it didn't murder my CPU. Youtube live chat is more demanding on my PC when things get busy than playing modern games, it's insane.
Are they counted separately? I watch a lot of youtube streams, but I have no idea what the hell youtube gaming even is. Didn't think it made a difference.
However bad Twitch is, it's nowhere near as bad as the experience of watching video on Facebook.
Yeah, now that I work from home, I want something to listen to while working. I ended up with putting Twitch on simply because I felt it was the best layout.
This is definitely a huge gripe I have. I just mute until it's over.
Outside of Vtubers I don't even know of YouTube streamers, the discoverability is awful and even with channels I follow it will often not properly display them as being live when they are. Step it up Google.
The way YouTube's emoji picker will just move at a crawl is ridiculous.
Seriously. I don't get how people can watch shit on Facebook
Facebook is a bit surprising - don't you use real names on it? I wouldn't want to chat on streams with my real name.
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It literally says that in the title? Twitch 6.3, YT 1.4 and FB 1.1
And that's still wrong compared to the article which says it is for YT Gaming and not for all of YT. That's my point. Is there no distinction? Pretty sure not everything on YT is marked as YT Gaming. Not sure about FB since I don't use it.
Both youtube and facebook has their game-streaming so built in to their other bullshit that it's never going to attract people enough to compete with twitch. You still think some other big company would try to create a new clean separated gamestreaming plattform to compete... but Mixers failure might be too scary i guess.
I like Twitch, meanwhile I don't even understand how to navigate Youtube livestreams. Like there's a Live channel so to speak but then when you click on the gaming live it's just a bunch of streamers put together with no real way to navigate it. I have no idea how to see it by game or by viewers or anything.
It's soooo bad, holy shit. If it's a concert or karaoke stream, the auto quality will even drop resolution so my PC won't die trying to keep up with the clap spam each time a song ends, lmao.
in gaming live streaming....
youtube(and probably tiktok) crushes it in everything else
the op blatantly misleads. it's false
youtube(and probably tiktok) crushes it in everything else
the op blatantly misleads. it's false
The title doesn't say 'YouTube Gaming'.
I came in here thinking that Twitch was bigger than all of YouTube.
Yeah this is my issue with them too. I have to click and scroll way more than I feel like is necessary to even get to a youtube live stream section. I generally forget they exist unless it pops up on my main page.
You say youtube, not video game streaming. It's patently false to say twitch is bigger than youtube
I remember before Mixer there was a short instance of Hitbox.tv trying to become a thing. Site UI was a lot slicker than Twitch at the time, but it didn't attract much of a crowd outside some speedrunners.
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I get what you mean but I couldn't fit any more in the title. I assume people realise this isn't all of YouTube, which is obviously way higher.
EDIT: I guess not, I reported the title to get it changed
They took away ad free viewing with prime which made me give up both services (prime and twitch)... So good for them i guess?
Honestly i don't get the hate for YouTubes live streaming. Last i checked you still couldn't scrub the timeline during live videos on twitch. That feature alone makes it superior.
Honestly i don't get the hate for YouTubes live streaming. Last i checked you still couldn't scrub the timeline during live videos on twitch. That feature alone makes it superior.
I wonder how they count those things, though. I do watch gaming streams on youtube, but never once went through youtube gaming, I just use the regular thing, as if I'm watching a video. Are my views counting in this statistic?
Well my point was that it is misleading, upto you to change it or not.
Generally there is a tag for Gaming, I guess they just count everything tagged. Of course there will be grey areas in this for videos about games, etc. I don't know how they handle those.
So the article makes the separation for YouTube and Facebook gaming, but is it doing the same for Twitch?
Cause there are tons of streams that pull in big numbers that aren't even video games. "Just Chatting" is one of the most popular Twitch categories.
Cause there are tons of streams that pull in big numbers that aren't even video games. "Just Chatting" is one of the most popular Twitch categories.
I bought a new TV a few months ago and the Trojan horse of there being a Twitch app built into it turned me into someone who never really watched Twitch to someone who puts that shit on in the background every single day, and watches significantly less YouTube as a result.
so yeah, I get the appeal now. I did not realize how much I missed the live aspect of broadcasting until Twitch entered my life.
so yeah, I get the appeal now. I did not realize how much I missed the live aspect of broadcasting until Twitch entered my life.
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Lmao come on now. Twitch is big, but I doubt anyone legitimately thinks it's bigger than ALL of YouTube š
youtube has the best tech, twitch the "best" (for better and for worse) community/chat.
facebook is just shit, but it is gaining traction in asia and the mobile games space.
facebook is just shit, but it is gaining traction in asia and the mobile games space.
Yeah, this is about streaming, 99% (numbers from my ass) of youtube content is VOD, should be rather obvious.
All I know is for console drops, Twitch has been amazing. Ppl setting up live streams to give the heads up for this has been a great thing.