According to StreamElements analytics partner Rainmaker.gg, Twitch set a new viewership record in Q2 with 6.2 billion hours viewed. In contrast to Q1 2021, the statistic indicates a 4 percent increase for Twitch. The total number of hours watched on Facebook Gaming during the quarter was 1.21 billion, up 4% over the previous quarter.

With 167 million hours viewed, Grand Theft Auto V was the most popular game of the month, followed by League of Legends (143 million), Call of Duty: Warzone (80 million), and Valorant (76 million).

Six of Twitch’s 10 most popular Vtubers showed significant gains in their respective viewership between January and June.

“One of the most essential things to watch is the growth of VTubers,” said Doron Nir, creator of StreamElements.

“An examination of how much the majority has grown in hours viewed since January demonstrates exactly how enormous their appeal has risen.”

Twitch isn’t the only platform that sees an uptick in interaction during the lockdown. In Q2 2020, compared to Q1 2020, Facebook Gaming gained tremendous traction, with a 75% increase in hours viewed. The number of hours viewed on Facebook Gaming peaked in Q2 at 342 million in May.

When comparing June 2019, when 111 million hours were seen, to June 2020, when 334 million hours were watched, Facebook’s streaming platform grew by 200 percent year over year.

Twitch’s most popular channel is still one that has nothing to do with video games: Just Chatting, which a 94% rise in hours had viewed from January to June 2020, going from 86 million to 167 million. The channel’s viewership increased by 175% from 181 million hours in Q1 2019 to 498 million in Q2 2020.

The March 10 release of Call of Duty: Warzone, a battle royale feature, helped raise Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to 76 million hours viewed in June 2020, up from just 7 million in January of the same year.