Giving fans a place to remotely tune in worked. According to Keighly, the streams were a huge success. They tallied almost 8 million views on Monday alone, as well as 2 million hours watched in total. That’s enough time “to travel to Pluto and back,” Keighly jokes. The streams also generated about 500 million comments.
Source: YouTube’s E3 Streams Generate 8 Million Views in 12 Hours | LostRemote