The Game Awards hit record viewership with its 2024 show on Dec. 12, which drew an estimated 154 million global livestreams. That’s up 31% over the 2023 show at 118 million live streams.
Per the Game Awards, which marked its 10-year anniversary with the 2024 show, “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.”
These are the viewership stats for the first 10 years of the awards show:
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