Most subscribed gaming YouTube channel 2022

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As of June 2022, Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie was ranked first among the most popular YouTube gaming channels with 44.3 million subscribers. Salvadoran gamer Luis Fernando Flores, known as Fernanfloo, was ranked second with 45 million subscribers.

Gaming on YouTube

Gaming content is a popular part of the YouTube content ecosystem. Gaming tutorials, walkthroughs and Let’s Play videos are a staple of the video platform, and over 350 gaming video creators on YouTube had more than 10 million followers and more than 100 billion hours of gaming video content were watched on YouTube in 2020. A big audience usually also translates into being able to make a living from monetized YouTube content, sponsorships, influencer marketing campaigns, and merchandise sales. Tyler Blevins (aka Ninja) topped the ranking of the highest earning video gamers worldwide with approximately 17 million U.S. dollars in annual earnings.

Gaming live streaming on YouTube

Live streaming on YouTube has also gained in popularity since 2018 and has seen a significant boost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After peaking at the end of 2020, YouTube Gaming Live generated a cumulative 1.13 billion hours of content watched in the first quarter of 2022, representing a 7.4 percent decrease from the previous quarter. French YouTuber Inoxtag was the most streamed channel on YouTube Gaming in the second quarter of 2021.