The new Fortnite season is out, with the fresh update bringing a lot of changes into the game. After weeks of radio silence, the title’s developer Epic Games finally revealed the Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2: Resistance, causing a significant spike in the discipline's viewership.
Besides the new map, skins, weapons, vehicles and gameplay mechanics, the season introduced a big core gameplay change — removing building from the game’s default mode. However, the feature’s removal is only temporary, as it is a part of the new season’s storyline, which also includes multiple Marvel characters, such as Doctor Strange and Iron Man.
On March 20, the day of Chapter 3 Season 2 release, Fortnite saw a significant increase in viewership on Twitch, attracting over 218K Average Viewers, which is 323% more than the discipline’s average viewership three days earlier. Moreover, yesterday's viewership peak of 467K concurrent viewers was 330% higher than the discipline's peak on March 17 and also the highest peak that Fortnite reached in the last three months.
The number of Average Channels streaming the discipline hit 8.67K on the release day, showing a 104% increase compared to the Average Channels count from three days ago. In total, 15.27K concurrent channels streamed Fortnite yesterday, which is also the discipline’s highest Channels Peak in the past three months.
Thanks to the recent, new season-induced spike in viewership, Fortnite jumped from 9th to 3th position in the overall platform rankings (during 20th - 21st March), surpassing Valorant, Elden Ring, GTA V, World of Warcraft, Apex Legends and CS:GO.
The most popular Fortnite stream since the new season’s launch is the SypherPK‘s ongoing launch party 100-hour stream. At the time of writing this article, the stream was in its 35th hour, having accumulated over 816K Hours Watched. The stream also saw the highest viewership peak in the last two days — 78K concurrent viewers, which occurred about six hours into the broadcast.
The stream with the highest Average Viewers count in the last two days was the 30 minutes-long Fortnite stream by the German-speaking streamer MontanaBlack88, which attracted 42K Average Viewers and 45K Peak Viewers, ranking as the third most popular stream (by PV) since the new season’s release.
The second was Trymacs‘s 9-hour stream, which peaked at 49K concurrent viewers and generated 313K Hors Watched. Some of the most popular channels that streamed Fortnite between March 20th and 21st included juansguarnizo, Vadeal, TheGrefg, Clix, Amar, NickEh30 and NiklasWilson.
Epic Games also recently announced it will donate all its Fortnite proceeds from March 20th - April 3rd 2022 to humanitarian relief for people affected by the Russian invasion in Ukraine. During the first 24 hours, the developer raised $36 million. In addition, Xbox joined the effort and also committed its net proceeds from Fortnite during this time.
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