“When we asked ourselves what gaming would look like in the next five years, and where we’re going to see growth from, it became apparent just off trends and insights that we were going to see mobile games rise,” Wyatt tells The Washington Post. “Really, they’re no longer these inherently casual games. And then we start to think about, OK, what do they need on the product side?”
This explosion in mobile is reflected in YouTube’s end-of-the-year statistics, which they published Tuesday. Mobile game “Garena Free Fire” was the third most-watched game on the platform with 72 billion views, above giants like “Grand Theft Auto V” and “Fortnite.”
Wyatt said that in some countries, creators can’t just rely on ad revenue, which is why YouTube added channel subscriptions and allowed creators to set their own prices. YouTube has also become more serious about streaming…
