Gaming on Reddit

It should come as no surprise that there is seemingly endless amounts of gaming content on Reddit, but did you know that gamers make up 4.5% of all subscribers on our platform? What about the fact that there is more than 1,000 gaming communities on Reddit? Or that r/Gaming is No. 4 in the daily top 10 subreddits, following r/AskReddit, Front Page and r/Funny?

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With nearly 15B projected views in 2018 alone, gaming communities have certainly found their home online with Reddit. From discovering and discussing content around upcoming releases, to conferences and live threads, gamers on Reddit drive the most views, only behind humor, and gaming is among the top 3 categories for total engagements (posts + comments + votes) alongside with humor and sports. Additionally, Gaming is the 4th largest category when it comes to video posts. In one week alone, we’ve seen gaming communities watch up to 100K minutes of video.

Gaming by-the-numbers

Did you know that gaming communities on Reddit have have an average of driving more than 1.2 billion monthly views?* That puts gaming in 2nd behind general humor (11 billion), followed by sports (6 billion) and entertainment (4.8 billion).

On average, we see more than 63M monthly unique users, who are highly engaged. Here’s a quick breakdown of their on-site activity:

  • 620K+ post submits per month, on average

  • 7.3M comments per month, on average

  • 56.3M votes per month, on average

When we look at the content produced on Reddit across our top verticals, we see gaming consistently in the top 3, following humor and sports. The same is true for when we add in engagements, such as votes:

  • Total posts + comments produced by vertical:

  1. General Humor & Fun: 90M

  2. Sports: 64.8M

  3. Gaming: 59.5M

  4. Entertainment: 39M

  5. Education & News: 33.8M

  • Total posts + comments + votes by vertical:

  1. General Humor & Fun: 1.5B

  2. Gaming: 472M

  3. Entertainment: 448M

  4. Education & News: 387M

  5. Sports: 285.5M

Top gaming communities on Reddit

Looking to join discover and discuss the best-of gaming content online? Here’s a quick  summary of top gaming communities on Reddit:

  • r/fortnitebr141M monthly views, 7.7M monthly uniques

  • r/leagueoflegends138M monthly views, 3.6M monthly uniques

  • r/gaming137M monthly views, 9M monthly uniques

  • r/globaloffensive63M monthly views, 2.2M monthly uniques

  • r/WoW54M monthly views, 2M monthly uniques

  • r/Games31M monthly views, 1.5M monthly uniques

  • r/pcmasterrace19M monthly views, 1.9M monthly uniques

  • r/PS417M monthly views, 2.8M monthly uniques

  • r/xboxone17M monthly views, 2.5M monthly uniques

  • r/fortnite12M monthly views, 2M monthly uniques

  • r/pcgaming7.9M monthly views, 1M monthly uniques

After entertainment, Gaming is also the 2nd largest subscription category.

Overall, gaming is responsible a large portion of Reddit’s daily traffic, with industry events such as E3 being a big driver. Not only that, we see retention of gamers to be higher than that of non-gamers, with logged out users being 2x and logged-in users upt to 2.3x.

With gaming communities on Reddit being high-engaged, active users, generating more than a billion views each month there’s a great opportunity for both consumers and brands to join the endless conversation. Whether you’re looking for gaming-related news, the scoop on upcoming releases, fresh takes and commentary or a never-ending stream of fan theories and memes, there’s a gaming community for you on Reddit.

*Source: Internal data January – July 2018