The video giant said it hit more than 120 billion hours of watch time for gaming-related content on the platform in 2022.
YouTube Gaming has also undergone leadership changes following the exits last year of YouTube’s global head of gaming, Ryan Wyatt, and global head of gaming creators, Lester Chen. To succeed Wyatt, YouTube brought in former Google Play and Meta executive Leo Olebe to lead the division.spoke with Olebe about the company’s exclusive deal model, the latest YouTube Gaming stats and YouTube’s new CEO, Neal Mohan.
When I was interviewing for this role, I had lots of conversations with Neal about, you know, are you into gaming? Are you excited about gaming? The answer is yes. As the new guy, of course, it’s what I’m really excited to hear. But the reality is, is that Neal has been around for a long time. He understands the product, he understands the business. He has great experience and expertise to bring.
We announced that it’s more than 500 million people a day coming here to watch gaming video. It’s 2 trillion gaming views last year, over 120 billion hours of content. To me, this stuff all just speaks to how important gaming is to YouTube, how integral gaming is to culture. I find it both fascinating and exciting and just an honor to be a part of it.It’s when people come in and watch content on YouTube that’s gaming related content.
Content builds upon content. So if you go live for a couple of hours, you’re playing a great game, it turns into archived live footage. Then you have the opportunity to trim that down or expand on it, add whatever you want to it, and then turn it into a VOD or you can turn it into a Short. And once you create that VOD, your live is there in perpetuity just in like an archived format. It’s a real opportunity to build a great business over time, as well as to like build your community.
It’s a constant balance, so I can’t say it’s going to be this split or that percentage or this is how things are going to move and change over the time, because it’s something that is probably a constant revolving door of conversations on what makes the most sense for the business and various individuals.
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