Revenue from professional streamers expected to be over $100 million in 2023

Good news for anyone who is a professional streamer or dreams of becoming one: the market is growing! According to analysts, professional game streamers will have a total revenue of more than 100 million dollars in 2023.

The information is from the Sports Lens website (with data from the Statista website) and the impressive number of revenue in the sector is 22% higher than in what it was in 2022, also being the biggest growth in revenue in the history of the category so far.

The rise of professional streamers

If there’s one industry that has boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s professional game streamers.

In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, the growth of the three main game streaming platforms (Twitch, YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming) was 81% compared to the pre-pandemic period.

And with this growth in content and audience, revenue also grew. In 2020, the global game streaming market earned a total of $65 million. In 2023, the expectation is that this number will reach 106.9 million dollars.

According to data from the Sports Lens website, by 2025, the revenue of professional game streamers could reach 144.6 million dollars.

Audience growth

According to data from the Statista website, more than 30% of the revenue of the professional game streamers market comes from China. And for 2023, the country will help the category to grow even more, with expected revenue reaching 32.1 million dollars.

The United States comes in second, with an expected revenue of US$14.8 million in 2023.

The total audience of professional game streamers is expected to reach 580 million users in 2023, and could reach 665 million in 2025.

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