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Twitch rides video game streaming wave to global success

58 点作者 aelaguiz超过 11 年前

10 条评论

brymaster超过 11 年前
Twitch desperately needs a competitor as they&#x27;re running in a space virtually unchecked. Youtube doesn&#x27;t count because they&#x27;re not putting their full weight against video game live streaming and the article was simply throwing Azubu a bone by mentioning them.<p>Apparently their last real competitor, Own3D.tv, couldn&#x27;t make good on payments owed to streamers and closed up shop. That should be a pretty good indicator about the profitability of this business model. Twitch has some interesting exclusivity deals with Xbox, PS4 and Mojang but forced ads for a Honda Civic I don&#x27;t care about on the video preroll can&#x27;t be paying their bills.<p>Twitch is still powered by venture capital, with their latest $20 million Series C round a few days ago. No doubt the exit strategy is to reach critical mass and then unload the business onto a company that can handle the bandwidth bills + stream partner payouts.
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bprater超过 11 年前
The &#x27;superbowl&#x27; of the game mentioned in the article -- League of Legends is happening tonight at 8pm PST. Watch the event here: <a href="http://na.lolesports.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;na.lolesports.com&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;ve been a gamer all my life and this game keeps hooking me -- I&#x27;ve been playing consistently for 3 years now.
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Shivetya超过 11 年前
I find Twitch useful for saving money, so many games out there and watching how they actually play lets me put my money to games that actually fit my play style.<p>There are some interesting personalities on Twitch, some of the money a few claim to pull in is impressive. Fortunately personality and ability drive followings, having cleavage and a cute face will only get you so far.
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kanamekun超过 11 年前
Congrats Emmett! Was really inspired to read about how you guys built up Twitch: <a href="http://mixergy.com/emmett-shear-twitchtv-interview/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixergy.com&#x2F;emmett-shear-twitchtv-interview&#x2F;</a><p>Totally agree with others that you&#x27;re building up the next ESPN.
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KVFinn超过 11 年前
&gt;&quot;The eSports audience is a particularly valuable one for brand advertisers because they are hard to reach via traditional media channels,&quot; said DiPietro. &quot;They tend to be extremely tech savvy, they are often cord-cutters, and they are hyper-engaged in the online video and chat experience -- all of which makes them very valuable for advertisers.&quot;<p>And very likely to use ad-block. I wonder when Twitch finally starts baking ads into the actual of the stream.
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colmvp超过 11 年前
I like Twitch, but it&#x27;s interesting to see comments from Redditors and especially European users who have huge frustrations over the quality of streams, bugginess, and chat which never seems to work right.<p>Source:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1nfcno/i_feel_bad_for_streamers/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;leagueoflegends&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1nfcno&#x2F;i_fe...</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1nfrlv/twitch_raises_another_20_million_how_twitch_took/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;DotA2&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1nfrlv&#x2F;twitch_raises_...</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1nfrkf/twitch_raises_another_20_million_how_twitch_took/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;starcraft&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1nfrkf&#x2F;twitch_rai...</a>
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percentcer超过 11 年前
Planet Money just did a special on cable channel bundling, focusing on ESPN&#x27;s early days and rise to prominence, and it really made me think we&#x27;re about to witness that same path with twitch. It&#x27;s perfectly positioned to be the ESPN for the internet generation.
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changdizzle超过 11 年前
congrats kevin, emmett and team! what&#x27;s awesome about this is that not only is twitch revolutionizing how people consume video games, the people that make up twitch are also so passionate about what they do. it&#x27;ll be really interesting to see how they ramp up monetization efforts as they&#x27;ve tried a variety of things (ads instream, sponsored links on the sidebar by kabam, subscription models for streams), but i&#x27;m confident they&#x27;ll get it right.
kleiba超过 11 年前
I really like twitch.tv and have spent hours watching it. But for reasons I don&#x27;t want to go into, I&#x27;m forced to use a very outdated browser. And yet they managed to give me a really good UX over at twitch.tv.<p>Until recently, that is. Unfortunately, they changed their interface recently and as an effect my obsolete browser can&#x27;t render some of their content anymore. It&#x27;s especially sad for me, not only because I&#x27;d still really like to be able to watch twitch.tv, but also because it all used to work fine until recently AND the sites in question do not contain anything magically: it&#x27;s simply that people&#x27;s profile sites don&#x27;t work anymore. But these pages contain the lists of videos people uploaded and without these lists, there&#x27;s nothing to watch :-(<p>Oh, well. Of course the solution is simple: upgrade. But as I said above, it&#x27;s currently not an option for me. So all that&#x27;s left for me to do is cry.<p>And write overly dramatic posts to HN, of course.
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erickhill超过 11 年前
Strikes me that this could be an interesting acquisition target for Yahoo. They have the infrastructure and cash to support its growth.<p>Twitch also has the added bonus of already being purple, too.