Sports Grid · Feb 18, 2017
Twitch Retrospective 2016: The Year In Streaming
For the past few years, Twitch has released their retrospective of the previous year in streaming and every time, the numbers are pretty shocking. Here are some of the ground-breaking statistics from 2016.
People watched 292 billion minutes of Twitch streams in 2016. That’s 555,555 years of watching Twitch!
The popular ‘Kappa’ emote used to illustrate sarcasm was used 413 million times in chat.
CS:GO was the top first person shooter although Overwatch was the most watched game in it’s release year.
Minecraft is still amongst the top ten most watch and streamed games despite being released in 2011.