Just a few days after publishing the results of the second season of our much-loved game, 'Whose Avatar is That?', Streams Charts is proud to announce that the third iteration began yesterday. Readers can participate and win awesome prizes from our partner HyperX and us.
The game's rules and prizes remain the same, with cool gaming peripherals from the top gaming accessories brand, alongside streamer subscription plans for Streams Charts, up for grabs. There will also be a reward (a microphone) for one player weekly, and all they have to do is play three or more games across those seven days.
With every new season, we look to add new elements to make the entire exercise more inclusive and exciting for participants, which includes changing the language of the streamers in question. This time, we have decided to go for all in, with Italian the flavor of choice thanks to its continued importance to the esports and entertainment causes.
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As one of the most loved and followed dialects across the world, Italian has been instrumental in spreading the message of not only esports but also content creation. To this degree, the likes of Tumblurr, POW3R, and Freneh have contributed majorly to making the style of speech and charisma native only to this Mediterranean nation popular worldwide. We will talk more about these content creators and their importance below.
Top Italian streamers in 2023
As mentioned earlier, influencers from this country are highly followed for their inimitable style and deep knowledge of their topics. However, there is one clear winner when it comes to the most-watched Italian broadcaster, and he is Tumblurr, who has accrued 22M Hours Watched so far this year.
These names have been crucial in giving a unique take on all things esports and entertainment. While teams and organizations from this country may not have been as successful as some of its European brethren, a special emphasis has to be given to its IRL creators, who have wowed audiences for years.
Tumblurr's success is valid proof of this fame, for his watch hours rival any other colleague from across the world and put him in the top 50 most-watched creators list for 2023. This means he has done better than the likes of scump, alanzoka, NICKMERCS, and rivers_gg, who all gave justifiable claims to being more well-known than him globally.
The level of penetration of esports and entertainment in Italy has also meant that it was one of the earliest nations to recognize the former industry as one with the potential to become a major player. Moreover, viewers from here remain some of the most passionate and important to the success of tournaments and events continentally and worldwide, helped by the fact that its esports audience is highly educated, young, and digitally native.
Language's yearly stats in 2023
When looking at the performance of Italian across segments this year, we can see that it has been pretty active, having registered 187K Average Viewers and 39k unique channels. These numbers are pretty close to a language like Turkish, traditionally known to be more inclined to esports events and competitions, especially in the mobile games segment.
This shows the digital knowledge of its fans and the fact that Italians love themselves some good esports action. Their main preferences, for those interested to know, remain StarCraft II, Fortnite, Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering Arena, Painkiller, Rocket League, League of Legends, Call of Duty: Warzone, World of WarCraft, and Quake Champions. These are disciplines that rake in billions of eyeballs per year across their tournaments, and Italy plays a major part in their success.
The IRL scene here, too, is pretty famous, with the likes of DarioMocciaTwitch, GrenBaud, and gskianto big proponents of this genre. Moreover, Italy has become one of the biggest gambling markets in Europe, with its punters having access to numerous safe options for esports betting online, including a few of the world's best-known bookmakers.
Lastly, as is familiar to the world, Italians love sports, and that is reflected in the way its streamers and fans treat content on sports and games related to it online. Aside from football and athletics broadcasting, its influencers are also known to play a lot of sports-genre titles like EA Sports FC 24, making it a thoroughly grizzled veteran in the streaming scene and a worthwhile addition to the list of languages for our beloved 'Whose Avatar is That? game.
