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Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. Twitch is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. [5]
It later became popular in the mid-2010s on sites such as Twitch. [5] By 2014, Twitch streams had more traffic than HBO Go and eventually hastened the closure of Justin.tv, which Twitch had originally spun out of. [6] [7] In 2015, YouTube launched YouTube Gaming, a video gaming-oriented sub-site and app that intended to compete with Twitch. [8]
Justin Kan speaking at Gnomedex in 2007. The original Justin.tv was a single channel featuring Justin Kan. Wearing a webcam attached to a baseball cap and streamed online via a laptop-backpack system designed by co-founder Kyle Vogt, [10] Kan decided he would wear the camera 24/7, and he began streaming continuous live video and audio at midnight March 19, 2007. [11]
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Remembering the good times. Ellen DeGeneres shared another heartfelt tribute to her show’s late DJ, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, after his death. Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Through the Years ...
Justin Kan (born July 16, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. [2]
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David M. Ewalt referred to Twitch as "the ESPN of video games". [27] The website spawned from and grew to overshadow Justin.tv, and was purchased by Amazon.com at the end of 2014 for US$970 million. [28] As one of the leading livestreaming platforms, Twitch now has millions of broadcasters and has nearly two hundred million viewers. [29]