B
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1,100,000
1,100,000 -- peak concurrent viewers for Fortnite live stream on YouTube (2018)
A Fortnite Battle Royale tournament live stream on YouTube set a record for the biggest single live gaming stream with 1.1 million peak concurrent viewers.
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Value
1,100,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2018
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
YouTube (Ryan Wyatt)
Primary
Tier B
http://matchmade.tv/blog/2018-03-29-fortnite-is-now-the-biggest-game-on-youtube/ ↗
Source Article
Fortnite is now the biggest game on YouTube. Here are the numbers. - Matchmade
Fortnite is now the most viewed game on YouTube, surpassing games like Minecraft, PUBG and Clash Royale. You’ve already read the news about how massive Fortnite is on YouTube – with stars like Drake and Kimdotcom streaming the game with Ninja – now, let’s look at some data and see how popular the ga…
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YouTube (Ryan Wyatt)
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Methodology
Tweeted by YouTube's Ryan Wyatt; also attributed to ElRubiusOMG's Fortnite stream
Methodology documented
Segmentation
IndustryGaming
RegionGlobal
Channelvideo
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Fortnite live stream on YouTube: 1,100,000 peak concurrent viewers. Source: YouTube (Ryan Wyatt) (2018). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/fortnite-stream-1-1m-concurrent-viewers
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/fortnite-stream-1-1m-concurrent-viewers" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>1,100,000</strong> -- peak concurrent viewers for Fortnite live stream on YouTube<br><small>Source: YouTube (Ryan Wyatt) (2018) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/fortnite-stream-1-1m-concurrent-viewers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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