Total Minecraft hours watched on selected platforms 2016-2024

Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 6, 2024

Minecraft, developed by Mojang Studios and originally released in 2009, is a sandbox video game that has become one of the most popular and bestselling games of all time. As of May 2024, Minecraft had generated approximately 4.7 billion cumulative hours watched across live-streaming platforms Twitch, YouTube, and AfreecaTV. Despite continuous growth in the measured period, the video game saw an accelerated increase in hours watched between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2020, which coincides with the outbreak of the COVID 2019 pandemic.

Cumulative Minecraft hours watched across selected live-streaming platforms from 3rd quarter 2016 to 2nd quarter 2024 (in millions)

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May 2024

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Worldwide

Survey time period

Q3 2016 to Q2 2024

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hours watched across Twitch, YouTube, and AfreecaTV

Supplementary notes

The source has tracked the data on hours watched since Q3 2016 on Twitch, Q4 2017 on YouTube, and Q1 2021 on AfreecaTV.

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