Twitch, Facebook Gaming, and YouTube Gaming all see a decline in year-over-year viewership

Livestreaming platforms have experienced a drop in total viewership year-over-year, with Twitch, Facebook Gaming, and YouTube Gaming seeing a combined 8.06-percent dip from 8.77 billion hours watched in Q1 2021 to 8.061 billion hours in Q1 2022. 

Twitch was actually the only platform of the three to show any viewership increase from Q4 2021, with viewers recording 6.13 billion hours watched, a 7.5-percent increase from the previous quarter’s 5.7 billion hours, according to the latest report from Steamlabs and Stream Hatchet.