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🎉 Kick’s Explosive Growth in 2024! 🎉 Two years after its debut, KICK continues to revolutionize live-streaming, nearly tripling its yearly viewership with an impressive 1.7B hours watched (+176% growth when compared with 2023). 🏆 Streamers leading the charge: ✨ WestCOL drew the largest viewership with 1.4M concurrent viewers during his Stream Fighters 3 boxing event in Colombia. ✨ Adin Ross made waves with a historic stream featuring U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. 🌎 Global reach grows: 📈 Latin America shines, with Spanish-speaking viewership skyrocketing from 56M to 364M hours watched – now 20% of Kick’s total viewership. Kick is solidifying its place as a global streaming powerhouse.

🎮✨ "It's dangerous to go alone—take this!" Get ready! Stream Hatchet's Save Point 2024 is here to recap the epic highs of live streaming and gaming this year. Download for FREE in the link below. https://lnkd.in/d_3VY5Fe Highlights: 📈 Kick grew 176% with 1.7B hours watched—Adin Ross brought the biggest name of the year with the Donald Trump interview! 🎭 VTubers crushed it—Kuzuha led the charge with 35M hours watched. 🏆 Esports hit Olympic levels: 2.8M viewers tuned in for the Esports World Cup. 🌟 Kai Cenat smashed records with 185M hours watched and Mafiathon 2's insane peak. And much more… Press start to dive into 2024's ultimate streaming report.

🎮 The Game Awards 2024: Breaking Records and Delivering Surprises 🏆 This year's @TheGameAwards set a new benchmark, becoming the most-watched ceremony in recent years with an incredible 4.2M peak viewers, a 19% increase over 2023. 📈 In a shocking turn of events, @PlayStation's Astro Bot claimed the prestigious Game of the Year (GOTY) award, leaving the fan-favorite and live-streaming giant @ELDENRING: Shadow of the Erdtree—the most-watched nominee post-release—without a win. Astro Bot dominated with 4 wins, followed closely by @Atlus_West's Metaphor: ReFantazio and @BalatroGame, both tying for second place with 3 wins each. The gaming world continues to amaze, and this year’s ceremony reinforced the power of live-streaming in driving excitement and engagement for the industry. Read more about the game awards and how the nominees perform on live-streaming in the comments below.

🔥 Celebrities Take Center Stage at Mafiathon 2! 🔥 Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon 2 wasn’t just a streaming marathon—it felt like Dancing With the Stars! From Druski (50.7K chat mentions) to SZA (33.5K chat mentions), fans couldn’t get enough of the celebrity appearances. Unexpected highlight? Ibai jumped the Atlantic to visit Kai during his streams, and the chat was on fire with 6K mentions And a special cameo by Twitch subs rival Ironmouse, where Kai temporarily became a VTuber! With the overwhelming success of Mafiathon 2, could this be the start of more celebrity-driven live-stream events? We’re keeping a close eye on how IRL marathons like this shape the future of live-streaming. 👉 See the full breakdown of Mafiathon 2’s impact and celebrity appearances in our latest article. https://lnkd.in/dAbCHj2X

Stream Hatchet will be at The Game Awards on December 12th! 🚀 Meet our Representatives: Jake Phillips, CRO Bobby Baird, Director of Managed Services Rick Malambri, Director of Creative Partnerships Shoot us a DM, or connect with one of them. They ready to chat about the future of live-streaming analytics, and explore how Stream Hatchet can help take your gaming and streaming strategies to the next level. They might also share some of the stuff we've been cooking for 2025 🤫 Let us know if you’ll be there! 👋

Live-streaming is back on the rise! Download our full FREE report here: https://lnkd.in/dyKqVNvV After a post-pandemic dip, Q3 2024 saw a 12% YoY growth, marking the first significant surge in years. Stream Hatchet tracked a record 19 platforms, with total viewership hitting an impressive 8.5B hours watched—that's 912M hours more than last year and 745M more than Q3 2020. A key driver of this resurgence? Emerging platforms like KICK, which has doubled its viewership compared to Q3 last year, alongside a broader variety of live-streaming options keeping audiences engaged. Live-streaming is evolving fast—are you ready to leverage these trends? Dive into the full report for more insights.

Congrats to all of the Golden Joysticks Awards winners last night! 🕹 Here’s a look at their hours watched across live-streaming platforms in their first 30 days of release this year 🚀 : Black Myth Wukong: 55.5M Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios): 44.1M Chained Together: 28.4M Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix): 16.4M Satisfactory (Coffee Stain Studios): 11.3M Balatro: 6.5M Astro Bot (PlayStation, Team ASOBI): 4.5M Another Crab's Treasure: 4.4M What games do you think will continue winning this awards season?

Our Q3 2024 Live-Streaming Trends Report is Out! Download for Free now! https://lnkd.in/dyKqVNvV 🚀 The live-streaming industry is bouncing back stronger than ever, with 8.5B hours watched in Q3 2024 – a 12% increase from the same time last year. Our latest quarterly report dives deep into the trends shaping the market, including: 🏆 Esports is thriving! With an 8% YoY growth in viewership QoQ, the esports industry continues to captivate audiences globally. 🎮 Kick’s rise to #3: With 534M hours watched, driven by a 59% growth in Spanish-speaking audiences. 🌟 Record-breaking streamers: Ibai’s La Velada del Año shattered peak viewership records with 3.84M concurrent viewers, while Ironmouse became the most-subscribed Twitch streamer ever with 320K subscribers. Want to see how platforms, publishers, and creators are shaping the live-streaming space? 📊 Download the full report now and stay ahead of the curve.

KaiCenat’s Mafiathon 2 is rewriting the record books on Twitch! 🚨 435K Twitch subs 👀 44M hours watched 🎥 271K peak viewers 🔥 111K average viewers This incredible stream is on track to become the most successful live stream in Twitch history. Kai is setting new standards for live content.

Today we concluded Stream Hatchet's Yearly planning week for 2025! Big things incoming for the next year. Plenty of meetings, brainstorming sessions, workflows created, and tapas eaten. Thank you to the usual suspects --> Jake Phillips and Cody Taduran and to the new faces (and some not so new) Rick Malambri, Bobby Baird, and Mark Redgrave for coming in and spend the week with the Barcelona team. Looking forward to unraveling all the great ideas that were proposed this week. Stay tuned for more!