The Game Awards 2018 Viewership More Than Doubled to 26 Million Viewers - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 December 2018 / 2,308 Views
The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley announced via Twitter this year's award show saw viewership more than double to over 26 million viewers. To compare, the total number of viewers in 2016 was just 3.8 million.
The number of viewers on Twitch peaked at a concurrent 1.13 million. Voting from fans increased by 50 percent compared to 2017.
This year viewership of #TheGameAwards more than doubled over last year to 26 million live streams. This is simply unbelievable. Thank you for watching and supporting us across these past 5 shows. Gaming only keeps growing. pic.twitter.com/pd0bIJ3AID
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 12, 2018
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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It already surpassed the Golden Globes, the Oscars is next!
That's crazy considering the massive budget of Hollywood awards shows!
Congrats to Geoff and co. Come a long way.
Wow that is insane. Does anyone know how high the views are of Sonys, Microsofts and Nintendos conferences at e3?
Pretty good.
It was a pretty spectacular show. Only downside was the furry.
And the fact that the greatest moment of the awards "Read it Boi" was followed by "and the award goes to Ninja."
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