Quarterly live streaming hours streamed on major platforms 2019-2020
Whereas streaming output saw a downwards movement in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic saw a reversal of the trend: in the fourth quarter of 2020, the total number of video content hours streamed across Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Facebook Gaming amounted to 255.4 million, up from 145.4 million hours of output streamed during the corresponding quarter of the previous year.