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[37] [38] Beginning with its 2014 edition, Twitch was made the official live-streaming platform of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. [39] On May 18, 2014, Variety first reported that Google had reached a preliminary deal to acquire Twitch through its YouTube subsidiary for approximately US$1 billion. [40] [41] [42] [43]
Justin.tv, a live-streaming service that is the owner of Twitch, is founded by Justin Kan. [citation needed] 2006 September 7 Products Amazon introduces video on demand service Amazon Video. [22] 2006 October 9 Mergers Google acquires YouTube. [23] 2006 October 31 Companies
YouTube would give free access to its users, the more users, the more profit it can potentially make because it can in principle increase advertisement rates and will gain further interest of advertisers. [339] YouTube would sell its audience that it gains by free access to its advertising customers. [339]: 181
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]
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YouTube's 2020 Culture and Trends report highlights VTubers as one of the notable trends of that year, with 1.5 billion views per month by October. [46] On March 30, 2021, Kizuna AI was chosen as one of Asia's top 60 influencers. [47] In May 2021, Twitch added a VTuber tag for streams as part of a wider expansion of its tag system. [48]
Two days after Twitch updated its Sexual Content Policy to allow depictions of “fictionalized nudity” — if properly labeled — the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform has done an about-face.
Streaming arose in the early 2010s, originating on sites like YouTube where users could upload videos of themselves in the form of vlogs or Let's Plays.While not all content featured a live audience, users were still able to gain a sizable following and make a living off of their content.