YouTube to
Double Down on
Live Streaming With Twitch
YouTube's acquisition of
Live Streaming video platform
Twitch for $1 billion is all but
confirmed. Users can log onto
Twitch to watch other users play video games — which may provoke the question,
who would want to watch someone else play video games?
See also:
Twitch Changes the Mobile Game With Live Streaming
As it turns out, a lot of people. More than 1 million gamers broadcast on
Twitch each month through
Xbox One,
PlayStation 4 and their computers; more than 45 million people log on to watch each month. Since its founding in 2011,
Twitch has raised more than $35 million in funding.
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