Geoff Keighley tweeted on Monday that The Game Awards raked in over a million livestreams globally, the highest broadcast audience in that seven year history. That is two million livestreams since last year’s pandemic that caused the creation of an all-virtual show by L.A., London and Tokyo. In addition to the rich tidal viewership, Keighley also used record-breaking statistics for this year show, saying that there were 1,6 million tweets over The Game Awards (hashtagged or not), 23,2 million screentons vote and a combined 175 million hours of livestream watched on YouTube. That figure may be paid to live performances by Sting and Imagine Dragons; exclusive reveals such as Sonic Frontiers, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 film, and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League; and surprise prizes such as It Takes Two winning Game of the Year. We’re thrilled to share that #TheGameAwards delivered a record 85 million livestreams in 2021.Plus: Record number of Tweets about the show (1.6M) Record number of viewer votes (3.2M) Highest Watch Time to date on YouTube (1.75M hours) pic.twitter.com/MA2UsjYFM3 and video. Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 20, 2021 In 2019 and 2018, The Game Awards landed 45 and 26 million viewers. The awards show, through the hybrid model development and the combination of organizers in the past year, has gained traction in viewership and social media engagement.
