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PS5 livestream reveal attracts record-level viewership on Twitch, YouTube

Twitch peaked at more than six million viewers.
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Sony unveiled the new PlayStation 5 yesterday that’s set to release in time for the holidays this year—and, as one might expect, a lot of people wanted to check it out. In fact, a record number of people wanted to check it out. 

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Peaking at more than three million concurrent viewers on Twitch and over 3.5 million on YouTube, the reveal had the highest peak viewership for a livestream on either platform. 

On YouTube, the PlayStation channel alone hit more than two million concurrent viewers. Numerous content creators co-streamed the event, pushing its category higher. 

For Twitch, the official PlayStation channel peaked at more than one million viewers. But where the event truly shined on the platform was through the collection of streamers who co-streamed it in the “Special Events” category on Twitch, reaching more than 3.1 million max viewers.

In about one hour of airtime, the official PlayStation channel on Twitch racked up 1.3 million hours watched with an average of 888,156 viewers, according to Twitch statistics website SullyGnome.

Overall, the event helped Twitch’s viewership spike high enough to give the platform its highest concurrent viewership figure ever. Including all channels, even the ones that had nothing to do with the PlayStation reveal, Twitch peaked at more than six million concurrent viewers yesterday.

Prior to yesterday, Twitch’s highest peak viewership was following the closed beta launch of Riot Games’ new tactical shooter, VALORANT. With Twitch drops enabled to grant viewers access to the beta, a then-record number of people came flocking to the platform amid a COVID-19 pandemic that was keeping many people at home due to social distancing guidelines.


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Max Miceli
Senior Staff Writer. Max graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a journalism and political science degree in 2015. He previously worked for The Esports Observer covering the streaming industry before joining Dot where he now helps with Overwatch 2 coverage.