For the primary time ever, folks lately spent extra time on Facebook Gaming than YouTube Gaming watching their favourite streamers. That’s in keeping with Streamlabs, which printed its Q3 2021 Live Streaming Industry Report on Wednesday.

The firm says viewers watched 1.29 billion hours of content material on Facebook Gaming between August and September, representing a 9.2 % improve from the earlier quarter. By distinction, the quantity of content material folks watched on YouTube Gaming went from 1.294 billion hours in Q2 2021 to 1.13 billion hours in the newest three-month interval. In phrases of viewership, Google’s platform has seen a gradual decline because it hit a peak on the finish of final 12 months.

YouTube’s struggles are shocking contemplating the corporate lately spent huge to safe expertise like and . Steamlabs attributes the milestone to Facebook Gaming’s worldwide recognition, along with the current rollout of options like . Whether Facebook can proceed to high YouTube is difficult to say. Over the identical timeframe, the platform noticed a decline in each complete hours streamed and distinctive channels. Those stand at 17.1 million and 440,000 at present, representing declines of 17.8 % and 48 % from the earlier quarter. For what it’s price, Steamlabs predicts the corporate is on the correct path.

As for Twitch, it bumped into its personal set of issues. People watched 5.79 billion hours of content material final quarter. Obviously, that’s greater than Facebook and YouTube mixed, however it’s additionally a 11 % lower from the viewership numbers it noticed in Q2 2021. What’s extra, the above quantity represents a year-over-year decline of twenty-two %. At the identical time, Twitch noticed, for the primary time ever, a year-over-year decline in distinctive channels, with that quantity reducing from 10.6 million in Q3 2020 to 10.4 million in Q3 2021. Still, with a 70 % share of the market when it comes to hours watched, Twitch is the dominant platform within the area, and that’s unlikely to vary anytime quickly.