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Viewership of The Game Awards more than doubled over last year to 26 million live streams, 1.13 million concurrent viewers on Twitch
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Very solid show, good balance between promotions/trailers and awards. Maybe 30 minutes too long but other than that it was by far the best TGA yet. Great work by everyone involved
26 million people had eyes on the black gay furry who would style the fuck out of you in a fighting game.
What a time to be alive
What a time to be alive
Absolutely amazing numbers. This is above Golden Globes / approaching Oscars type of viewership.
Golden Globes 2018 - 19mil
Oscars 2018 - 26.5mil
The Game Awards viewership in past years:
- 2017: 11.5 Million
- 2016: 3.8 Million
- 2015: 2.3 Million
- 2014: 1.9 Million
Big shout out to Keighley and the crew that put this show together. I think this iteration has been the closest to what this show strives to be. It was really good, for what they're going for and currently can be.
Definitely the best TGA I can remember. The awards were actually the least exciting part as most were largely predictable (RDR2 winning half the awards was obvious well before the game's release tbh), but there were tons of legit cool announcements, decent guests and such. There's still a lot to work on including the cringe gamey humor bits ("my kids play fortnite all day and I know Mario, gamers amirite???"), but the show's 3 hours went by surprisingly fast.
That was perfect for SonicFox, he gained the reputation he deserved and definantly made the Furry community happy as hell for him being up there. Doesn't turn them into some dumb joke, it was great.
Good for it! I've actually been looking forward to and enjoying it the past few years. Thanks for the effort on it Geoff and staff.
Good for Geoff, we'll deserved. Sticking with his passion through the rough early years has definitely paid off. Each year, the Game Awards steps it up to become something better and better, and that's all thanks to him
Not watching it next year, but it's cool we have a online gaming awards show on the level of the Oscars.
Far more than I expected. There were only 480k viewers on the official YouTube live stream which I thought would have had the most viewers.
A deserved success, the best Keighley-produced show yet.
You're comparing US-only figures to worldwide numbers for the Game Awards.
You're comparing US-only figures to worldwide numbers for the Game Awards.
Nice! Grats to Geoff. Dude clearly puts his heart in the show and it's nice to see him bear the fruits of his labor.
Because I'd rather spend 3.5 hours on a Thursday evening doing something else.
It's apples to oranges since you're comparing US TV ratings for the Oscars versus worldwide online streaming of The Game Awards.
Still very impressive the growth that Geoff's made with the show, but the Oscars have global viewership way higher then the US TV ratings from everything I've read.
So you would rather have other people spending their time watching it making it as big or bigger than the Oscars than you?
This is US only. Oscars are several hundred millions worldwide. They used to be over 1 billion worldwide, but they're free falling recently.
numbers that high aren't accurate. no way a billion people ever watched the oscars. it's inflated and shows the number of people that COULD watch it if they wanted to.