NEW YORK: YouTube’s global head of gaming, VR, content and partnerships Ryan Wyatt has declared that the global video content giant has clocked people across the world having spent in excess of 50 billion hours watching gaming videos on the platform in 2018, venturebeat.com reports. The number is double than that of Americans’ spending time travelling to work within a year.
For the first time, YouTube sponsored the annual ‘The Game Awards’ ceremony in the USA on 7 December which honours achievements in the video gaming industry the world over.
On a daily basis, more than 200 million people view gaming content on the Google-owned platform, which is equivalent to the population of Brazil and signifies the emergence of the internet culture in gaming.
YouTube also recently launched the official teaser trailer of Fallout 76, another popular video game. Wyatt concluded that he could feel the buzz around the ‘Let’s Go Eevee’ trailer’s launch as well as traditional games with a solid fanbase such as Pokemon Go and Let’s Go Pikachu.
