Minecraft celebrates being the first game with over one trillion views on YouTube
Minecraft continues to astound by breaking record after record.
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It’s no secret thatMinecraftis one of the most successful video games of all time, and now the creative sandbox survival game has crossed yet another milestone. On Wednesday, Mojang and YouTube have combined forces to reveal that Minecraft is thefirstvideo game to accumulate over one trillion combined views officially. This impressive accomplishment is being celebrated in a number of ways, with Minecraft boasting a variety of impressive metrics on the video-sharing platform.
During Minecraft Live 2021, Mojang Studios took the opportunity to reveal thatMinecraft continues to grow in scale and communityover time, with over 141 million monthly active users reported in Aug. 2021. It was also shared that Minecraft was the most-watched topic on YouTube in 2020 with over 201 billion combined views, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the game has now surpassed one trillion views in total near the end of 2021.
The Minecraft community on YouTube consists of over 35,000 established creators across 150 countries and territories, all of which have helped maintain Minecraft as the most-watched video game topic on YouTube for years. Here’s how YouTube and Mojang Studios are celebrating Minecraft surpassing this milestone:
Minecraft is one of the greatest games of all time, as made clear by how many continue to show considerable amounts of interest in this long-running legendary video game. In 2021, Minecraft amassed hundreds of billions of views to cross that one trillion view milestone, and it’s earning more all the time. Minecraft is one of thebest Xbox gamesyou can play right now, but it’s also a lot of fun just watching what other people can do with it. Congratulations to Mojang Studios and Minecraft’s YouTube creators on this accomplishment.
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Zachary Boddy (They / Them) is a Staff Writer for Windows Central, primarily focused on covering the latest news in tech and gaming, the best Xbox and PC games, and the most interesting Windows and Xbox hardware. They have been gaming and writing for most of their life starting with the original Xbox, and started out as a freelancer for Windows Central and its sister sites in 2019. Now a full-fledged Staff Writer, Zachary has expanded from only writing about all things Minecraft to covering practically everything on which Windows Central is an expert, especially when it comes to Microsoft. You can find Zachary on Twitter@BoddyZachary.
