Spectating data service for a spectating system

A method, comprising:

• performing, by a spectating system implemented on one or more computing devices:
• streaming one or more broadcasts received from one or more broadcaster devices to a plurality of spectator devices, wherein each broadcast includes game play of a respective broadcaster participating as a player in a game executing on a game system;
• providing broadcast content to the spectator devices with the one or more broadcasts, wherein the broadcast content is determined at least in part according to game metadata for the game received from the game system;
• obtaining and recording spectator interactions with the one or more broadcasts and respective broadcast content as spectating data;
• determine spectating data metrics indicating spectator states during the one or more broadcasts based at least in part on analysis of the spectator interactions with the one or more broadcasts and the respective broadcast content;
• storing correlations between the spectating data and the one or more broadcasts according to the spectating data metrics;
• and
• exposing the spectating data and the spectating data metrics to one or more spectating data consumers according to a spectating data interface.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement a spectating data service for a spectating system configured to:

• store spectating data including indications of spectator interactions with a plurality of broadcasts and respective broadcast content, wherein each broadcast includes game play of a respective broadcaster participating as a player in a game executing on a game system, and wherein the broadcast content is determined at least in part according to game metadata for the game received from the game system;
• store audiovisual (A/V) content for the broadcasts, wherein the A/V content for a broadcast includes one or more of broadcast video, broadcast audio, or broadcast text chat;
• analyze the spectating data and the A/V content to determine spectating data metrics indicating spectator states during the broadcasts;
• expose the spectating data, the spectating data metrics and the A/V content to one or more spectating data consumers according to a spectating data interface;
• receive a request for particular spectating data from a spectating data consumer according to the spectating data interface;
• determine a portion of the A/V content that is correlated to the particular spectating data according to the spectating data metrics;
• and
• provide the requested spectating data and the correlated portion of the A/V content to the consumer according to the spectating data interface.