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Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023: Analyzing Over 32K Twitch Chat Messages

In this examination of Gamescom's Opening Night Live show, we crunched the Twitch livestream data through the lens of our advanced chat sentiment analysis capabilities to find out what segments resonated with the audience.

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The Rise of VTubers 2023: Virtual Creators in the Streaming Space

This report is a follow-up on our last article on The Rise of the VTuber: The Rise of the VTuberUnsuprisingly, VTubers experienced another massive surge in popularity during the Covid-19 lockdown. With many indoor activities like concerts and conventions cancelled, droves of people started to discover VTubers in their newfound

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Product Feature: Chat Sentiment Analysis

Instead of scrolling through millions of messages by hand, Gamesight uses sentiment analysis backed by natural language processing, industry knowledge, and firsthand experience about how gamers chat to offer the best-in-class Twitch and YouTube sentiment analysis product.

We 💙 Indie Games with Kelly Wallick | The Gamesight Podcast

Gamesight Podcast | Spotify | Apple | Google | YouTube It's the Gamesight podcast. Yane An: Welcome to the Gamesight podcast. We have here with us Kelly Wallick, and she is a founder, community builder, investor. And self-titled perpetual optimist. Love that. So you've been in the games industry for over 10 years, and

We 💙 Supporting Creators with Nexus | The Gamesight Podcast

Gamesight Podcast | Spotify | Apple | Google | YouTube Yane An: Welcome to the podcast. We have here with us, Justin Sacks, CEO of Nexus. How are you doing today? Justin Sacks: I am great. I am excited to be here, so thanks for having me. Yane An: Yeah, thanks for joining us.

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2022 YouTube Gaming Report

Short vs Long Form Videos: Game Genre-Specific Influencer Marketing Insights GET THE REPORT We've leveraged our comprehensive data analysis tools to unearth the video formats that resonate best with gaming audiences and those that drive the most engagement. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of influencer

SF6 Hits Over 5 Million Viewer Hours in 72 Hours

We're celebrating the release of Street Fighter 6 by comparing its release viewership to other industry brawlers, 72 hours post-launch. Our major takeaways: 1. Street Fighter 6 is the biggest fighting game release in the last 5 years, since Super Smash Bros: Ultimate. 2. In comparison to other fighting game

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A 2023 Comparison of PlayStation Showcase Viewership

As experts in the gaming data space, our team took a deep dive into the PlayStation Showcase performance on Twitch from 2019 through 2023, the first year without E3.

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We 💙 Recruiting in Gaming | The Gamesight Podcast

Discover the latest insights on the post-pandemic job market, gaming industry trends, and expert advice on job searching in our interview with Lizzie Mintus, founder and CEO of Here's Waldo Recruiting, who's been part of over 600 hires for top-level teams.

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Gamesight Podcast #7 - We 💙 World of Warcraft

We sat down with World of Warcraft veteran and Gamesight Site Reliability Engineer Anthony Snider to talk about his 17-year-old career as one of many of the millions of gamers who take the call of the legendary MMO game.

Gamesight Podcast Ep #6 - We 💙 GDC

Gamesight Podcast | Spotify | Apple | Google | YouTube Missed out on the Games Developers Conference (GDC) 2023? Don't worry, we've got you covered. In this episode, join us as we chat with CEO Adam Lieb on all the hottest topics that everyone was talking about at the conference. From game-changing AI to

Gamesight Podcast Ep #5 - We 💙 Halo and Xbox gaming

In this episode of the podcast, we do a nostalgia dive into the world of Halo with Head of Influencers, Emilee Helm, and Campaign Manager, Gabriel O'Meara. From its early beginnings as a first-person shooter game on the original Xbox to its evolution into an esports powerhouse, Halo has captured

Gamesight Podcast #4 - We 💙 Gamesight's data-driven marketing

In this episode, we explore how Gamesight is changing the game when it comes to video game marketing. We talk to industry expert Christian Thomas, Gamesight's support and solutions lead, about how Gamesight's proprietary data is bringing a whole new level of KPI tracking to PC, console, and web3 video

Top 10 Twitch Streamers February

We're back with February's top 10 Twitch streamers of the month. Twitch stays the dominant platform to some of the most popular and talented streamers in the world, and February 2022 was no exception. One standout event was the sub-a-thon by streamer Kai Cenat, which broke the record for highest

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Top 10 Twitch Streamers January 2023

Here are the top 10 Twitch streamers of the month ranked by viewer hours!

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Hogwarts Legacy Is Biggest Single-Player Game Launch in Twitch History

Attention all wizards, witches, muggles, and half-blood princes! The newest craze in the gaming world is ‘Hogwarts Legacy,’ an action RPG developed by Avalanche Studios. Set in the wizarding world of Harry Potter, the newly released game is lighting up the Twitch charts this week. Hogwarts Legacy, which is slated

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A Ranking of All 173 Games Played at AGDQ 2023

We ranked all the games played at AGDQ 2023.

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AGDQ 2023: Viewership Analytics

GDQ's third consecutive year online is off to a great start.

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The Top Ad Networks of 2022

Our report offers an in-depth look at the most popular advertising platforms for PC and console gaming, ranking them using data gathered from the Gamesight engine.

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Warcraft's Viewership Soars to New Heights with Dragonflight

World of Warcraft has 45.4 million viewer hours in the month of November, with over 30 million of those hours being since the 15th when the first Twitch Drop went live. The launch of Dragonflight alone netted 13.8 million of those viewer hours.

Black Friday gaming releases and trends

Happy Thanksgiving week! Let's talk about the November heavy-hitters dominating the Twitch.tv charts. Pokemon Scarlet & Violet dropped Nov 18. 2022 and as of Nov. 21 it is the second highest selling console of all time. However clips of users glitching through the game have gone viral, leading players to

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Horror games that will spook Twitch chat this Halloween

ahh! so scary D: only the bravest Twitch streamers could play these!

Despite Rocky Launch, Overwatch 2 Finds Success

It's no secret that the general attitude surrounding Overwatch 2 was questionable and mostly negative following its initial announcement. The negative sentiment stemmed from the perception of Overwatch 2 by some fans and critics as essentially a glorified update to the original game, utilizing the same character assets, maps, and

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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King hits 366,000 peak viewership

This week, both veterans and new players had the opportunity to experience it again with the re-release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic. Wrath Classic’s release absolutely crushed viewership numbers for the rest of September with over 42.1 million viewer hours.

Twitch Recap of EVO 2022

Another year, another bout of fighting game mayhem at EVO (The Evolution Championship Series), the annual esports event which focuses exclusively on fighting games. Normally a yearly endeavor, EVO 2022 was the first in-person event since 2019, due to complications presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. EVO also presents an excellent