Official ‘League of Legends’ Twitch Channel Surpasses 1B Views, First Channel to Do So

While Twitch is gaining popularity as a video streaming service, it’s nowhere near the size of YouTube, just yet. This is why the recent achievement of the official channel of “League of Legends” is so important. Racking up one billion views is a big deal for the channel because it was the first to do so. This is a milestone that the whole of the Twitch community can revel in.

As The Next Web notes, it has been seven years since Twitch launched and since then, it has been blowing past milestone after milestone. The platform currently boasts 15 million users who are active on a daily basis. It also has 2.2 million content creators who are bringing in these users for their views. However, no channel has breached the one billion marker until "LoL" came along.

Now, the channel is owned and operated by Riot Games, the creator of the game. The company sent out a tweet thanking supporters and Twitch for the achievement.

“We'd like to extend a thank you to the viewers for helping the @RiotGames @Twitch Channel be the first one to surpass 1 billion views. We could not have done it without your loyal support,” the tweet reads.

As for what could have propelled "LoL" to such heights, it would seem that the increase in eSports viewership has a lot to do with it. The most recent championship finals involving the game drew in 60 million unique viewers, for example. That kind of number makes the achievement of "Lol’s" Twitch channel unsurprising.

It is worth noting that in terms of overall viewership hours, "DOTA 2" still comes off ahead of the game. Clearly, more and more people are getting interested in eSports, CNET notes. The interest and engagement among the public have been obvious for some time now. Some eSports streams were even bigger than national basketball or football tournaments.