Fortnite dominates livestreams watched in Q2.
Fortnite dominates livestreams watched in Q2.
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Fortnite crushes rivals on Twitch with 74% rise in Q2 viewership

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The enormously popular free-to-play battle royale shooter Fortnite crushed its rivals in the second quarter in terms of hours watched on livestreaming platform Twitch. Fortnite grew 74 percent in millions of hours watched on Twitch in Q2 compared to the previous quarter, according to a report released today by analytics and monetization platform StreamElements and SullyGnome.

Numerous rivals saw a decline in terms of the number of hours watched on Twitch. League of Legends saw an 11.6 percent decline in Q2, while PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds saw a drop of 9 percent. Counter Strike: Global Offensive fell 47.3 percent, Overwatch fell 5 percent, Grand Theft Auto V fell 11 percent, and World of Warcraft fell 2.5 percent.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.