55% of Mobile Gaming Live Streams are watched on Facebook Gaming

Mobile Gaming is often an underlooked sector of the esports and video game streaming market. While it still represents a fraction of streaming content, the Mobile Games industry accounts for 55% of the Video Game Industries revenue. Stream Hatchet enables business analysts to uncover market trends related to mobile gaming live streams across the leading distributor platforms. This week, we focus on the leading distributors of Mobile Gaming live streams:

• Facebook emerges as the market leader: In Q1 2020, 55% of the top Mobile Gaming Live streams were watched on Facebook Gaming.
• YouTube takes a close second: Even without Video On Demand Hours Watched, YouTube Gaming live streams account for 43% of the market.
• Twitch falls behind in mobile: While Twitch remains the market leader in broader live streaming (65% of the total live streaming market), they only represent 2% of the mobile game streaming audience.

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