The Recreation Awards 2023 Units a New Viewership Report With Over 100 Million Streams

Persevering with its spectacular development of year-over-year progress, it’s been revealed that The Recreation Awards 2023 set a brand new viewership document for the annual streaming ceremony. This yr’s The Recreation Awards, which befell on December 7, acquired roughly 118 million streaming views throughout the varied platforms the present was out there on.

The Recreation Awards 2023 had 118 million livestreams throughout platforms, setting a brand new document for the present

Information of The Recreation Awards’ record-breaking yr got here courtesy of the present’s host and producer, Geoff Keighley.

In a submit on social media, Keighley said that this yr’s ceremony set a brand new viewership document of 118 million livestreams throughout quite a few streaming platforms. These spectacular numbers helped The Recreation Awards 2023 develop into the most-watched present within the occasion’s 10-year historical past and symbolize a 15% progress in viewership over final yr’s occasion.

Along with honoring the proficient groups behind a few of 2023’s greatest releases, The Recreation Awards 2023 additionally performed house to large bulletins just like the reveal of God of Battle Ragnarok’s Valhalla DLC.

Offering a bit extra context to this yr’s progress in viewers, Keighley gave a quick breakdown of how The Recreation Awards carried out throughout completely different platforms. The biggest progress got here from the 4K feed of the present on YouTube, which noticed a 53% bounce in viewership in comparison with final yr as over 900,000 avid gamers tuned in to the stream at one level. Along with the official livestream of The Recreation Awards, avid gamers may additionally tune in to one of many hundreds of channels that co-streamed the occasion on YouTube and Twitch. These fan-led streams helped increase the present’s attain even additional, with the height viewership on Twitch sitting at just below 2 million folks.

This record-breaking yr for The Recreation Awards helps additional cement its position as one of the high-profile occasions in gaming. Whereas The Recreation Awards have confronted some criticism over time for putting extra emphasis on trailers and sport reveals than on recognizing the creators being awarded for his or her work, it stays one of the broadly accessible methods for avid gamers to get their first glimpse at upcoming releases. And with the current announcement that E3 is formally lifeless after years of failed makes an attempt at reinvention, its doubtless that The Recreation Awards’ place of prominence within the gaming business will solely proceed to develop.