- The 2025 Game Awards set a new record with 171 million livestreams, up 11% from 2024.
- Expanded multi-platform distribution and record co-streaming drove higher global viewership and concurrency.
- Rising social engagement and viewer voting signaled the gaming award show’s growing cultural influence.
The 2025 Game Awards broke its own international livestreaming record on Dec 11, with an estimated 171 million livestreams of its whole broadcast. The figure represents an 11% increase over the previous high of 154M, reached in 2024. The gaming awards livestream record reflects the growing popularity of premium live gaming broadcasts.
Organizers credited the increase to the show's wider global distribution via digital channels. The ceremony was livestreamed on YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok Live, X (previously Twitter), Kick, Facebook, and Instagram Live, as well as regional services in China and Jio Hotstar in India.
The diversity of transmission platforms shows how the Game Awards' livestream worldwide strategy has developed into a multi-platform, multi-region broadcast model. The estimated livestream number, however, excludes viewership from Amazon Prime Video, which streamed the event for the first time this year.
Game Awards 2025: Global Livestream Numbers Soars
Peak concurrent viewing time increased year on year. Analysts claim the increase in concurrency reflects the ongoing growth of the Game Awards 2025 audience, especially in Western streaming markets. As reported by Variety, the combined viewership on sites such as Twitch and YouTube totaled over 4.4M, which is roughly 9% higher than in 2024.
On YouTube, the official 4K broadcast topped at approximately 1.4M concurrent streams, while total concurrency, including co-streams, exceeded 2.4M, both higher than the previous year. Twitch's peak viewership surpassed 1.8M, with total individual viewers and hours watched increasing by approximately 5%.
The show's reach was boosted by unprecedented co-streaming activity across multiple platforms. Yahoo News reports that the event was co-streamed by over 8,600 channels on YouTube, with 16,500 creators participating on Twitch. This figure reflects a 50% growth over the previous year on Twitch alone.
Social Engagement Drove the Buzz for the Gaming Awards
Viewership increased in tandem with social engagement. Between Dec 10 and 12, X posts regarding the Game Awards increased by 12% year on year, reaching more than 1.79M. There were almost 60M video views on X, which included both the official broadcast and related videos published on the platform. Authenticated viewer voting for The Game Awards climbed by almost 10% from 2024 to more than 123M, including the Players' Voice award.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dominates Game Awards 2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year at the 2025 ceremony, which unprecedentedly swept off nine total honors, the most ever at any Game Awards ceremony. The game received accolades for its game direction, narrative, visual direction, score and music, performance, and was recognized as the best independent game, best debut indie game, and best RPG.
The Game Awards 2025
Other titles from multiple genres that were honored in the show were Hades II (for action) and Hollow Knight: Silksong (for action/adventure). Notably, the unreleased Grand Theft Auto VI was honored with the award of Most Anticipated Game.
Even without Prime Video's viewership numbers out, the 2025 Game Awards had the highest global reach since the show's inception in 2014. With participation from North America, Europe, and Asia, the figures show that the Game Awards global viewership footprint is continuously growing across digital channels.
The show also highlighted the growing popularity of livestreamed interactive entertainment events, with the stats forming the larger Game Awards 2025 latest news, as the show pushes itself into popular culture status.
