The Game Awards hit record viewership with its 2024 show on Dec. 12, which drew an estimated 154 million global livestreams. That’s up 31% over the 2023 show at 118 million livestreams.
Per the Game Awards, which marked its 10-year anniversary with the 2024 show, the 2024 viewership high was reached with streams across YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok Live, X, Instagram Live, and Facebook. Additionally, show hit its global viewership milestone amid a record number of platforms streaming in China including Bilbili, Huya, Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, DouYu, Baidu, NetEase CC, Tencent Video, QQ, Kuishou, HeyBox; in South Korea or CHZZK and Soop, and NicoNico in Japan.
Unlike most other high-profile awards shows, the indie event hosted by gaming industry star Geoff Keighley does not have an exclusive streaming deal with a network or streaming service.
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The top winner out of the 2024 Game Awards was “Astro Bot” from Team Asobi and PlayStation, which won four awards, including Game of the Year. Other big winners were “Metaphor: ReFantanzio” and “Balatro.”
According to StreamCharts, Twitch, YouTube and other platforms outside the Asian and Pacific territories had more than 4 million peak concurrent viewers combined, an increase of more than 10% from the 2023 Game Awards.
Notable presenters at this year’s awards included Aaron Paul, Ella Purnell, Harrison Ford, Hideo Kojima, Isabella Merced, Khalid, Laura Bailey, Sam Lake, Shannon Woodward, Statler + Waldorf, Swen Vincke, Sydnee Goodman, Todd Howard and Troy Bake. The show featured musical performances by Twenty One Pilots and Snoop Dogg.
See below for the viewership stats across the first 10 years of the Game Awards, courtesy of the awards show.
2024: 154 million
2023: 118 million
2022: 103 million
2021: 85 million
2020: 83 million
2019: 45.2 million
2018: 26.2 million
2017: 11.5 million
2016: 3.8 million
2015: 2.3 mIllion
2014: 1.9 million
The 2024 Game Awards were executive produced by host Geoff Keighley and Kimmie Kim. The show was directed by Richard Preuss. LeRoy Bennett was creative director. Michael E. Peter co-executive produced.