The Game Awards 10th anniversary celebrates huge viewing numbers

The 2024 Game Awards were a smashing success. It’s unsurprising given the show’s tenth anniversary. There were big announcements and big awards given out, but what was even bigger was the people watching. The Game Awards announced today that there were 154 million people watching, which was a 30%+ increase from 2023. The platform continues to grow, and we’re here for it.

LOS ANGELES — Weds., Dec. 18, 2024 — The Game Awards, the video game industry’s year-end celebration, today announced its 10th anniversary show on December 12, 2024 broke viewership records with an estimated 154 million global livestreams, up 31% over 2023’s record-setting showcase, which reached 118 million livestreams.

Through its streaming-native, no friction approach to global distribution, The Game Awards delivered over 154 million live streams across a multitude of digital networks, including YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok Live, X, Instagram Live, and Facebook, as well as global viewership across China on a record-setting number of networks.  According to StreamCharts, Twitch, YouTube and other western platforms had more than 4 million peak concurrent viewers combined, up over 10% from TGA 2023.

On YouTube, the 4K TGA feed delivered a 35% jump in YoY peak concurrently to 1.3M. Platform-wide (including co-streams), TGA on YouTube was up 28% to over 2.17M peak concurrent. Over 4,500 channels co-streamed the show on YouTube, a new record.

On Twitch, more than 11,000 channels co-streamed the show, and more than 4,500 co-streamed the show on YouTube, building to a combined 15,900 co-stream channels.

On X, usage of #TheGameAwards hashtag was up 150% YoY, with over 1.59M posts about TGA from users, resulting in 6.79 billion impressions on X.

Viewer voting for The Game Awards increased over 25% from 2023 to more than 112 million across all participating platforms, including the Players’ Voice award.

Globally, TGA achieved its biggest ever results with live distribution in China on a record number of platforms including live distribution in China on Bilbili, Huya, Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, DouYu, Baidu, NetEase CC, Tencent Video, QQ, Kuishou, HeyBox; in South Korea or CHZZK and Soop, and NicoNico in Japan.

Here are the historical live stream numbers for The Game Awards:

2024: 154 Million

2023: 118 Million

2022: 103 Million

2021: 85 Million

2020: 83 Million

2019: 45.2 Million

2018: 26.2 Million

2017: 11.5 Million

2016: 3.8 Million

2015: 2.3 MIllion

2014: 1.9 Million

This year at The Game Awards, Team Asobi and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s ASTRO BOT won a total of four awards, including Game of the Year. Studio Zero, Atlus and SEGA’s Metaphor: ReFantanzio took home three awards including Best Narrative, Best Art Direction and Best RPG. LocalThunk and Playstack’s Balatro also won in three categories including, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game and Best Mobile Game. The show featured performances by Grammy-Award winning duo Twenty One Pilots alongside d4vd and Royal & the Serpent who performed original songs from Season 2 of Riot Games and Fortiche Production’s hit animated Netflix series, Arcane. Snoop Dogg also took to the stage to perform music from his new album “Missionary.”

With appearances from the biggest names in entertainment and video games including Aaron Paul, Ella Purnell, Harrison Ford, Hideo Kojima, Isabella Merced, Khalid, Laura Bailey, Sam Lake, Shannon Woodward, Statler + Waldorf, Swen Vincke, Sydnee Goodman, Todd Howard and Troy Baker, The Game Awards once again brought together the industry for a one-of-a-kind night of celebrations. The Game Awards Orchestra’s “Game of the Year” medley, composed by Lorne Balfe, featured music from this year’s beloved slate of Game of the Year nominees including, ASTRO BOT from Team Asobi, Balatro from LocalThunk, Black Myth: Wukong from Game Science, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree by FromSoftware, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth from Square Enix and Metaphor: ReFantazio from Studio Zero.

The Game Awards gave fans a glimpse at what’s next in gaming and entertainment with world premieres of upcoming projects, including Borderlands 4 (Gearbox Software), Dispatch (Adhoc), Elden Ring Nightreign (FromSoftware, Inc. and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.), Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (Naughty Dog), Mafia: The Old Country (Hangar 13), Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (SEGA), Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios), Stage Fright (Ghost Town Games), and The Witcher 4 (CD Projekt Red).

The Game Awards is executive produced by Geoff Keighley and Kimmie Kim. Richard Preuss is the director, LeRoy Bennett is the creative director, and Michael E. Peter is Co-Executive Producer.

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