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Twitch and Facebook Gaming set new records, YouTube Gaming sees viewership decrease in Q2 2021

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The streaming industry has shown continuous growth over the last year, setting new records each quarter. Twitch has led the pack with three straight quarters of record-breaking performance for hours watched and streamed. The total number of hours watched across all streaming platforms increased by 2.5 percent from 8.77 billion hours in Q1 to 8.99 billion hours in Q2 2021, according to the latest Streamlabs and Stream Hatchet industry report. During that time, viewers spent more than three billion hours per month watching live content, up 16 percent from the

Nigeria leads mobile app market growth in Africa as use of gaming apps surge 44% from Q1 2020

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The pandemic’s effect on the global app market has not been hard to miss. In the first quarter and first half of this year, consumer spending in mobile apps hit new records at $32 billion and $64.9 billion, respectively. In Africa, it can be tough to call out exact numbers on consumer spending because the continent gets hardly a mention in global app market reports. Yet, other metrics are worth looking at, and a new report from AppsFlyer in collaboration with Google has some important insights into how the African app

The NPD Group: First Quarter 2021 U.S. Consumer Spending on Video Game…

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The growth driven by the new platforms, combined with gains experienced in mobile, PC and VR content spending, as well as the continued strength of Nintendo Switch, have pushed the market to new highs. PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (PRWEB) April 29, 2021 According to the Q1 2021 Games Market Dynamics: U.S.* report from The NPD Group, overall total consumer spending on video gaming in the U.S. totaled $14.92 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021 (January - March), an increase of 30% compared to Q1 2020. Gains were seen across

Twitch dominates streaming in 2021, YouTube struggling to keep up

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Fariha Bhatti • Apr 16, 14:34Twitch has contributed the most to the livestreaming culture, becoming one of the leading gaming content platforms in the world. Streamlabs Q1 report shows that Facebook and YouTube Gaming are catching up as well.  Over the past few years, gaming stream content has flourished drastically, bringing the video game industry into the spotlight. Consequently, platforms like Facebook and YouTube joined Twitch in its venture to provide a set space for gaming content creators. The two platforms were late to the show, but Streamlabs Q1 report

How Niantic evolved Pokémon GO for the year no one could go anywhere

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Pokémon GO was created to encourage players to explore the world while coordinating impromptu large group gatherings — activities we’ve all been encouraged to avoid since the pandemic began. And yet, analysts estimate that 2020 was Pokémon GO’s highest-earning year yet. By twisting some knobs and tweaking variables, Pokémon GO became much easier to play without leaving the house. Niantic’s approach to 2020 was full of carefully considered changes, and I’ve highlighted many of their key decisions below. Consider this something of an addendum to the Niantic EC-1 I wrote

Twitch breaks records again in Q2, topping 5B total hours watched

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Twitch had already broken viewership records in the first quarter of 2020 amid coronavirus lockdowns, surpassing 3 billion total hours watched in a single quarter for the first time. In the second quarter, it appears that Twitch has broken that record and several others once again. According to a new report from Streamlabs and Stream Hatchet, Twitch saw a massive 62.7% increase in hours watched from Q1 2020 reach 5 billion hours watched in the second quarter. This figure was also up by 83.1% year-over-year and helps to cement Twitch’s

Elon Musk Twitter meltdown tanks Tesla (TSLA) stock

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No Elon wasn't hacked, he's just losing it. If you were ever wondering if Elon Musk's tweets could get worse, well today is your day. After going on a profanity-ridden tirade against the state of California's Stay-at-Home order during Tesla's Q1 2020 earnings results conference call, Elon Musk has taken to Twitter with a bunch of tweets. A lot of them pushing for the reopening of America. This afternoon, the CEO of Tesla tweeted that the company's share price was too high, in his opinion. Shares are now down over

Evening Reading – April 29, 2020

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Hey Shacknews, it's time for Evening Reading Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look. In case you missed it at Shacknews: [embedded content] Even between the devs, the meta shifts around quite a bit#BleedingEdge ?LIVE https://t.co/ZWTiS4BCk1 pic.twitter.com/o8Hnqd7eyi — Shacknews (@shacknews) April 29, 2020 Salesforce cancels Dreamforce 2020 in San Francisco [embedded content] The annual event was set to take place in November, but Salesforce announced today that the event will instead go on in "new and virtual ways." This is one of the biggest events

Google CFO confirms company ‘experienced a significant slowdown in ad revenues’ in March

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Google CFO Ruth Porat disclosed a slow down in the company's ad revenue as the global COVID-19 pandemic intensified in March. Google is out with their Q1 2020 earnings release, and the stock is up on a revenue beat. Sales came in at $41.2 billion for the search behemoth, but the CFO disclosed that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on advertising revenues began to be felt in March.  Alphabet's stock jumped nearly $60/share on today's earnings release. “Performance was strong during the first two months of the quarter, but