The monthly audience of VK Play exceeded 13 million people – Kommersant

The Russian gaming service VK Play reported on its first year of operation and said that the platform now has more than 16.5 million registered accounts, and the number of monthly users has exceeded 13 million people. This is for 2 million people morethan in January 2023. In February, the service released the Russian video game Atomic Heart exclusively in the CIS.

Since April 2022, more than 2,000 esports tournaments have taken place on VK Play, in which more than 600,000 people took part. More than 20,000 streamers have joined the VK Play Live streaming platform, 9,000 of which launch streams regularly. In total, more than 924 million hours were streamed on the service.

Previously VK singled out 300 million rubles for the development of Russian game developers – their projects will receive special conditions and additional opportunities for promotion when published in VK Play. Also, the cloud gaming service VK Play Cloud has become available in the VK Play application on Android. The beta version of VK Play was launched on April 25, 2022. The platform combines various services: game catalog, streaming, cloud gaming, esports competitions and gaming media.

Evgeny Fedunenko