Brawl Stars is a mobile MOBA shooter game developed by Finnish company Supercell, who has also worked on Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and other famous mobile gaming titles. The Brawl Stars YouTube channel recently went live to announce a new SpongeBob Squarepants collaboration with in-game integration, and the announcement stream reached over 1,000,000 concurrent live viewers.
Supercell are well known for crafting some of the world’s most popular mobile gaming titles, and their “Brawl Talk” streams are particularly popular. These broadcasts are an opportunity for the game developers to discuss new updates, changes, and more with the game’s player base. The new SpongeBob Squarepants collaboration begins with “Spongebob Season”, an entire seasonal event based around the beloved children’s cartoon.
The announcement for the update was a short 30-minute video that the game developers premiered live on YouTube, and towards the end of the broadcast they reached 1.04M Peak Viewers. Viewership was constantly climbing throughout the broadcast, and Streams Charts PRO users can check the stream statistics themselves to see how quickly concurrent viewership climbed throughout the broadcast.
In total, the short half-hour stream generated 195.8K Hours Watched, and recorded 391.6K Average Viewers. Brawl Stars are no strangers to highly viral YouTube streams, and they have reached hundreds of thousands of viewers for both English and Korean-language announcements in the past. Although this recent Spongebob collaboration announcement was one of their most popular streams yet, it wasn’t even their most popular broadcast of 2024.
Top 5 Brawl Stars YouTube Broadcasts by Peak Viewers
|
Date |
Stream |
Peak Viewers |
|---|---|---|
|
“Brawler mutations” announcement |
1 058 501 |
|
|
Spongebob collaboration |
1 036 347 |
|
|
Competitive mode update |
750 267 |
|
|
Brawl Talk |
622 054 |
|
|
Brawl Talk |
447 962 |
Earlier this year, the Brawl Stars account held its most popular broadcast ever, reaching 1.06M Peak Viewers. The broadcast announced the new “mutations” gameplay for Brawl Stars, which also saw an entirely new game mode added to the game. Mutations are special powers which can enhance a player’s characters, and sometimes even entirely new abilities. The announcement was Brawl Stars’ most popular moment of 2024, so far.
Brawl Stars are continuing to grow and reach a wider audience; so far in 2024, the Brawl Stars YouTube channel not only reached 1M PV for the first time, but managed to reach this milestone twice. As it stands, three of the channel’s top 5 most popular broadcasts all come from 2024, and usually their end-of-year December Brawl Talk is especially well-watched. It seems likely, that this December, Brawl Stars will host another one of their famous Brawl Talks, which might be one of their most popular broadcasts ever.
Compared to other YouTube Gaming broadcasts for 2024, Brawl Stars holds not only the most popular stream of the year so far, but also managed to record three of the top 5 most popular broadcasts by peak concurrent viewership. The mobile gaming title's channel outperformed both Nintendo of America's official 2024 Nintendo Direct, and one of the most popular esports series in the world, the MPL Indonesia.
MPL Indonesia is the Indonesian regional circuit for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang esports. The Indonesian circuit is often not only one of the game's most popular tournaments, but one of esports' most-watched events overall. Brawl Stars has not only managed to outperform one of the world's most popular gaming companies in 2024, but also one of esports' leading titans of the industry.
