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CHALLENGE
You might think Twitch or TikTok, but year after year, YouTube is where gamers spend the most time watching and creating, with over 200 million people watching gaming content on YouTube daily. But here’s the challenge – we wanted to engage an already hyper-connected audience for whom authenticity is key and reminds them that YouTube is the greatest home of gaming.
Game On had a high bar to leap over. Gaming creators make thousands of hours of exceptional content every day - both live streamed and not. We wanted to create something that recognised this high bar and added to it, showing that we really got it.
From a content perspective, we collaborated with creators and studios to make each segment special. Building on the top games and trends of 2022, we worked to match the variety gamers are used to - from Bella Poarch hosting a Mortal Kombat tournament, to IRL Among Us, a real bomb squad defusing virtual bombs in Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and crafting a competitive Hot Ones challenge (amongst many more).
This was paired with continuous interactivity throughout the livestream - including polls to vote on your preferred winner, choose your own adventure moments to determine the outcome of segments and general chat and banter from the viewers that was amplified in the stream in real time.
Together, the combination of cutting edge production, culturally lead content, and true interactivity created a moment that beat all expectations - and reminded our community of everything they love about YouTube.
Over 8 million streams in under a week
38,000 comments per minute in chat while live
95% Positive Sentiment (beating our benchmarks of 60%)
1300% increase in organic traffic versus internal Spotlight benchmarks
Webby Award Winner People’s voice winner for Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual Entertainment.
Webby Award Winner People’s voice winner for Social, Experimental & Inno