Gamescom Opening Night Live Had More Than 500,000 Peak Concurrent Viewers

Geoff Keighley and Koelnmess have announced that Gamescom Opening Night Live had more than 500,000 peak concurrent viewers when it aired live from Cologne, Germany on Monday, August 19. It’s a great result for a debut of what is considered a “franchise.”

Geoff Keighley and Koelnmesse have announced that Gamescom Opening Night Live had more than 500,000 peak concurrent viewers when it aired live from Cologne, Germany on Monday, August 19. It’s an excellent result for a debut of what is considered a “franchise.”

It was a record-setting edition for Gamescom itself, with 373,000 visitors (up from 370,000 in 2018) from more than 100 countries. Thirty-one thousand three hundred were trade visitors, while exhibiting companies were up 11% to over 1,150.

Koelnmesse CEO Gerald Böse said: “With ‘gamescom: Opening Night Live,’ we have taken a decisive step in the direction of becoming an international platform for new products. At the same time, the show was also the starting point for our new Gamescom now digital offering, with which we offered the digital community additional access to Gamescom.

“Thanks to the successful combination of a unique gaming offering on the grounds, supplemental formats and the extension to the online world, we have further strengthened Gamescom as a 360-degree experience event and a leading communication platform. There have never been this many innovations at Gamescom – never have we reached so many people as in this year.”

Koelnmesse also confirmed that Gamescom 2020 will take place from Tuesday, August 25 to Saturday, August 29, 2020. Geoff Keighley himself has posted a thank you post on Twitter to remark the results of the Opening Night Live event further.

Thanks for tuning in for @gamescom #OpeningNightLive Live last week. Happy to announce more than 500,000 peak concurrent viewers watched the live show. A really strong start for this new franchise. It was so much fun to produce this in Europe, thanks for the opportunity. pic.twitter.com/ALczoZ7v6e

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) August 26, 2019