Twitch streaming service set a new record for monthly views of 2,06 billion hours, up 105% from the same period last year. Grand Theft Auto V was the most watched game of the month (181 million hours), followed by League of Legends with 143 million, Fortnite with 107 million, Call of Duty: Warzone with 85 million and Minecraft with 82 million. Competitor Twitch, Facebook Gaming, things are also going well – views per month amounted to almost 400 million hours, which is more than in February.

StreamElements has been tracking Twitch data since 2016. She notes that streamers’ in-game role-playing games have sparked renewed interest in the project. StreamElements has also revealed a growing interest in dormant broadcasts. Over the course of a month, Twitch users spent over 2 million hours watching streamers sleep. Most of them were on one streamer, which was watched for 1,5 million hours.

“In 1964, Andy Warhol released a controversial film called Sleep, which featured edited footage of his lover asleep for 5 hours. His fans were attracted by those rare moments when something happened, for example, a simple change of position.Doron Nir, CEO of StreamElements, said. – The same charm happens on Twitch, whether it’s the abundance of sleep streams, the Yule Log winter marathons, or the camera at the often-overlooked STOP street sign. Since these seemingly mundane things happen live, anything can happen at any time, and communities rallied around supporting these streams and celebrating both frequent and infrequent events during them. “.