StreamElements: Video games livestreaming dips in September

StreamElements has launched its State of the Stream report for September 2022. The report reveals that video games livestreaming hours watched dipped barely throughout all main platforms.

Twitch misplaced about 7% of its complete hours watched month over month whereas YouTube Gaming contracted by 1%.

This report options information from worldwide platforms NimoTV, AfreecaTV, Bigo Stay, Trovo and Nonolive. This information confirms that the contraction shouldn’t be restricted to the most important platforms. The report offers extra info on the highest video games, streamers and languages on these platforms, highlighting regional content material preferences.

StreamElements factors out that a part of this lower is because of September being a shorter month than August. Nonetheless, hours watched additionally decreased on a per day foundation. Given the viewers age demographics, it’s attainable that returning to high school impacted watch time.

This month, the StreamElements has partnered with Streams Charts as a substitute of its ordinary supplier, Rainmaker.gg. This offers a singular alternative to have a look at how necessary non-gaming content material is to YouTube. General, gaming content material accounts for 16% of the platform’s complete watch time. YouTube’s most watched reside channels are typically music and information content material.

Non-gaming content material is rising on Twitch. Simply Chatting is probably the most watched class on the platform by a large margin. In September, viewers watched almost 250 million hours of Simply Chatting content material based on Streams Charts. Nonetheless, YouTube’s almost 2.3 billion hours of non-gaming content material dwarfs this, highlighting the variations in platforms.