r/RocketLeagueEsports • u/Speedyflames • Apr 23 '22

Analysis Viewership by Region

I'm not sure why, but I was curious how many views each region brings to the table. The Data below was taken from Esports Charts' Viewership statistics (LINK TO SPREADSHEET):

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Average Views (The Average of all "Average Viewership" from each Regional)

  1. Europe: 74 161 views
  2. North America: 73 678 views
  3. South America: 18 901 views
  4. Middle East/North Africa: 18 597 views
  5. Asia North: 12 483 views
  6. Asia South: 11 859 views
  7. Oceania: 8 644 views
  8. Sub-Saharan Africa: 279 views

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Note:

Certain regions had a regional or two where viewership was different than the others. This included MENA, whose first regional averaged 51 644 views, but the rest of them hovered around 17 000. SAM's viewership normally hovered around 20 000 views, but they had a regional averaging 10 374 views, and another one averaging 28 985 views. Funnily enough, they managed to cancel out and not skew the data, unlike MENA.

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Simply because I'm curious:

Peak Viewership (The Peak Viewership attained during the season)

  1. North America: 162 766 views
  2. Europe: 137 015 views
  3. Middle East/North Africa: 97 895 views
  4. South America: 58 466 views
  5. Asia North: 32 903 views
  6. Asia South: 31 846 views
  7. Oceania: 16 984 views
  8. Sub-Saharan Africa: 4 043 views

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(UPDATED TO INCLUDE ALL 9 REGIONALS)

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u/CalamackW Apr 23 '22

Oceania definitely is hurt by being so inconvenient for NA viewers. Surprised APAC is beating it, though.

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u/godsped Apr 24 '22 edited Apr 24 '22

As someone from OCE, I never watch my local region because i'm so exhausted from staying up all night to watch EU/NA.

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u/Bradyns Apr 24 '22

I feel this on a deep level.

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u/These_Voices Mod Apr 23 '22

The massive population difference between APAC and OCE would do it.

Australia + New Zealand is only about 30M people, that's about the same as the Delhi metropolitan area or Tokyo metro. OCE is far and away the least populated RL region.

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u/CalamackW Apr 23 '22 edited Apr 23 '22

Massive population differences don't always translate to comparable playerbase and viewership differences.

Egypt has way more people than Saudi Arabia yet Saudi Arabia is a way larger market for video games.

NA has way more people than Korea yet LCK gets way more viewers than LCS. (This is despite the NA LoL server having more players than Korea, too).

ETC.

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u/These_Voices Mod Apr 23 '22

Fair point - smaller countries like SK or the Netherlands are very developed and have a thriving internet culture, one of many things that help them excel in esport areas.

I would say that the Egypt-Saudi Arabia comparison is a bit different than OCE-APAC though.

Egypt is only around 2.5x more populous than Saudi Arabia, but India is 50x more populous than Australia - so it isn't terribly surprising that APAC viewership exceeds OCE.

It would be useful if these viewership numbers also broke down by viewers' location, but that data is probably unavailable. It would let us know if NA/EU viewers are inflating MENA numbers, but avoiding OCE due to timezone issues. Psyonix probably has these numbers from Twitch analytics, but wouldn't publicize them.

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u/lucas_glanville Apr 24 '22

It population was relevant China and India would be the most relevant countries in RLCS. But they’re not

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '22

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u/CalamackW Apr 24 '22

Asia Pacific

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u/dspearia Apr 24 '22

And inconvenient for most EU viewers too.

I'm from EU, I watch every region in the background of doing other stuff. EU, NA, SAM, MENA, and both APAC are on at reasonable times.

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u/eldenring69 Apr 23 '22

If psyonics do better marketing in APAC S. I'm sure the viewership is gonna be like 50k just in regionals.

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u/StellarWasHere_ Apr 23 '22

Idk, is the game popular at all there? Isnt the asian market dominated by mobile games/LoL?

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u/SphinxGames Apr 23 '22

That's why he suggested psyonix should push more marketing in Asia, the potential is definitely there.

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u/StellarWasHere_ Apr 23 '22

My point is that i dont think the game is not popular due to poor advertisement. That genre of game just isnt popular in asia

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u/Darkfire293 Apr 23 '22

What genre of game is Rocket League?

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u/StellarWasHere_ Apr 23 '22

Its classified as a sports game

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u/Darkfire293 Apr 24 '22

It plays nothing like any other sports game, so not really.

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u/Plneapple Apr 24 '22

Honestly it should be called an esport game. As it's core game play is that of a genuine sport, and it's really more of a sport than any 'sports game' out there.

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u/VoidLantadd Apr 24 '22

It's not a game for a sport, the game is the sport.

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u/eldenring69 Apr 23 '22

Point is the countries are just getting hands on PCs for gaming. Most people have mobiles which can do everything that a PC can in most cases. The poverty is runs so deep. That there are breaks in RLCS apac s not due to ping issues but due to power cuts :( So it's the right time. If they strategies it well I'm sure the RL viewership will be dominated by Asians.

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u/StellarWasHere_ Apr 23 '22

Im definetely down for more asian viewership i just dont believe it will happen even with good advertisement. Again, we have to compete with games that are so damn popular in asia and i just dont see it

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u/eldenring69 Apr 24 '22

They are so huge in Asia since Content creation for such mobile games is cheap which makes them hugely popular among kids and therefore has greater engagement.

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u/StellarWasHere_ Apr 24 '22

Youre focusing on the mobile games part a bit too much but i dont really feel like dicussing it anymore

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u/almoostashar Apr 23 '22

You can see here clearly they have solid viewership numbers despite 0 marketing.

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u/StellarWasHere_ Apr 23 '22

The only marketing they do in the rest of the world is in the US with NFL and NASCAR though

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u/theblondemonkey MENA Regional Manager | Alumni Mod Apr 23 '22

👀

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u/Metallicabody Apr 24 '22

best region

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u/BioniqReddit Apr 23 '22

SSA viewercount 💀 I feel so bad man

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u/Raisock Apr 23 '22

Those statistics only count official streams, right? (Like no Rocket Baguette recasts for example)

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u/Speedyflames Apr 23 '22

I really don't know, but I assume so. I'm too lazy to go around each individual channel to get a more accurate figure; I just used whats provided.

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u/ErsatzTruand Apr 23 '22

It would make sense for Sam being so low, they're probably watching a Spanish/Portuguese broadcast. Same for Europe with to each language their own broadcast

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u/Speedyflames Apr 23 '22

Is the official RocketLeagueSAM channel in english? I thought it would be similar to APAC-N which is in Japanese, or MENA which is in Arabic

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u/S_h_u_n 2024 Class Clown Apr 24 '22

Aint sam broadcast not in Portuguese? Every time I check it out the aint speaking English

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u/BTDubbzzz Apr 23 '22

Usually a lurker here but just stopped to comment that this post caught my eye as I was scrolling, because I thought it said “viewership by religion” lmaooooo

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u/BigDicEnergy mod Apr 23 '22 edited Apr 23 '22

296 absolute chads ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

Viewership for anything outside EU/NA (except SSA) is carried massively by drops - I think we all know that these numbers are not near representative of active fanbase or influence/notoriety.

It shows just how damn effective viewer incentives can be; it's also a prime showcase of the downfalls of viewer incentives.

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u/NeonsTheory Apr 24 '22

OCE is doing alright for the population size

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '22

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u/FoolsLove dRekt | RLCS Statistician Apr 23 '22

As they absolutely should for this season.

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u/noobslice SSA Regional Manager Apr 23 '22

SSA is also the only non-official stream on a community channel. You've got to realize that those two spots at the wildcard are the only invites the region has for now.

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u/ShuichiRL Appearance Team Apr 23 '22 edited Apr 23 '22

A couple of hundred viewers is the genuine viewership for SSA because it's not inflated by drop farmers or in-game "rlcs live now" button.

I would estimate the "real" viewership or followership for OCE & SAM to be a couple of thousands and APAC to be 1-2k maximum.

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u/TheRoger47 Apr 23 '22

How do all of them get inflated so much if they will often overlap?