{"id":1355,"date":"2020-08-25T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safebettingsites.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2022-03-31T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:22:54","slug":"facebook-gaming-hit-822-million-hours-watched-in-q2-2020-a-316-jump-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safebettingsites.com\/2020\/08\/25\/facebook-gaming-hit-822-million-hours-watched-in-q2-2020-a-316-jump-year-on-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Gaming Hit 822 Million Hours Watched in Q2 2020, a 316% Jump Year-on-Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first half of 2020 has witnessed an amazing growth of the global gaming industry, with millions of people choosing video games as their favorite form of entertainment amid coronavirus lockdown. Besides spending more time playing video games, eSports fans also significantly increased time spent watching their favorite game titles.<\/p>\n

According to data presented by Safe Betting Sites<\/a>, users of the world’s leading social network, Facebook, spent more than 822 million hours watching eSports in the second quarter of 2020, a 316% jump year-on-year.<\/p>\n

More than 1.3 Billion Hours Watched in the First Half of 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In the first quarter of 2019, Facebook Gaming hit 164.6 million hours watched on the platform, revealed Streamlabs and Statista data. In the next three months, this figure rose to 197.7 million. The increasing trend continued in the third quarter of 2019, with the number of watched hours jumping to over 269 million.<\/p>\n

Statistics indicate that between October and December 2019, Facebook users spent a total of 460.1 million hours watching eSports content, a 70% jump in three months.<\/p>\n