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  • June 10th, 2013

    Twitch Integrates With Xbox One For Live Broadcasting And Viewing Of Video Game Streams

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    Today at its E3 press conference, Microsoft announced that it has integrated with Twitch to allow live streaming and viewing from its upcoming Xbox One game console. The integration will allow Xbox Gold Live customers to instantly broadcast their game streams to their own Twitch channels, as well as view the streams as others. → Read More

    June 10th, 2013

    Thanks To Twitch, Watch Microsoft’s 2013 E3 Press Conference Right Here

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    Forget WWDC. E3 is where it’s at. Except we’re not there in person this year. But of course all the action is streamed live on the interwebs, and Twitch is all over it.

    As expected, Twitch, the gaming community startup, is going big at E3 this year. Throughout the show the company will be streaming all sorts of content from their E3 booth. The full schedule is here. → Read More

    June 10th, 2013

    Twitch Updates SDK To Boost Engagement, Get Its Streams Embedded In More Video Games

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    Streaming service provider Twitch is updating its software development kit to help its developer partners increase engagement with players and viewers that are tuning in to their games. The new online toolkit will be especially useful for community portals, providing more social features, as well as tools to improve content discovery. → Read More

    June 5th, 2013

    With 35M Unique Viewers A Month, Twitch Hires An In-House Ad Sales Team To Ramp Up Monetization

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    E-sports streaming startup Twitch has already seen massive growth in its audience since launching to the public just about two years ago. Now it’s hoping to better monetize that audience, with the creation of an in-house sales team to go after big advertisers in the video game industry. → Read More

    February 4th, 2013

    Twitch Launches $8.99 Per Month Premium Tier, With Custom Emoticons, Badges… And No Ads

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    Ever since it was launched in 2011, e-sports streaming specialist Twitch has been free to view. Like other streaming video sites on the web, Twitch has relied on ads as its primary source of monetization. But frankly, no one likes ads, and so the company is rolling out a new premium tier, called Twitch Turbo, which will provide ad-free viewing, as well as a few other features, for $8.99 a month. → Read More

    January 30th, 2013

    Twitch Gets Embedded In Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2, Providing Instant Broadcasting Of User Gameplay

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    E-sports streaming provider Twitch is getting a huge validation of its platform from one of the biggest video game franchises out there. Today the company is announcing that gamers playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 will soon be able to instantly stream their game sessions online with a single click. → Read More

    November 2nd, 2012

    E-Sports Video Streaming Platform, Twitch, Partners With Sony Online Entertainment To Add One-Click Casting To PlanetSide 2 MMO

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    The e-sports juggernaut keeps on trucking: live-streaming video platform Twitch is partnering with Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) to incorporate in-game live streaming to PlanetSide 2, SOE’s forthcoming MMO. The pair say it’s the first in-game one-click live streaming integration of Twitch’s service — allowing players to live stream their gameplay to Twitch with minimum fuss. → Read More

    September 19th, 2012

    With More Than 20M Gamers Tuning In, Twitch Raises $15M From Bessemer Venture Partners

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    E-sports are becoming big business. How big? Big enough that San Francisco-based live streaming startup Twitch (formerly TwitchTV) has about 20 million gamers watching e-sports on its platform. And so big that Twitch is raising another $15 million to capture this large — and growing — opportunity. → Read More