In 2019, 18 million Russians purchased gaming content or donated to streamers. The number of people who sold that type of content or received money for streaming reached 2.5 million nationwide.
* The study analyzed payment activity of the audience of Steam, Battle.net, Twitch, YouTube, and DonationAlerts.
The method of the study was 50% online survey (random sampling), 50% panel study.
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