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Live music, big deals, and the rise of ‘Just Chatting’: Pandemic takes Twitch further beyond gaming

Canceled vacations and closed-down cities have fueled an uneven but dramatic rise in the overall audience for live-streaming platforms. Many… Read More

Esports star Shroud returns to Amazon’s Twitch with exclusive deal following Mixer shutdown

Twitch inked an exclusive deal with esports star Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek as he returns to the Amazon-owned streaming platform. Shroud… Read More

With Microsoft Mixer set to close, Amazon’s Twitch sets record with more than 5B hours watched in Q2

Twitch, the goliath of game streaming, is getting even more gigantic. Amazon’s streaming service registered more than 5 billion total… Read More

Twitch suspends President Trump’s channel, citing ‘hateful conduct’ in video streams

Twitch, the streaming video service owned by Amazon, temporarily shut down an account for President Donald Trump on Monday over… Read More

Mixer co-founder on Microsoft pulling the plug, Twitch’s market power, and his startup journey

Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive,… Read More

Microsoft shutters Mixer game streaming platform, will partner with Facebook Gaming

Mixer is over. Microsoft is shuttering its video game live-streaming platform, four years after it launched Mixer to compete with… Read More

Amazon and NFL renew ‘Thursday Night Football’ streaming deal — and add one Saturday game

Sports fans missing baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer and just about anything else that should be in play right now are… Read More

Here’s how much Microsoft reportedly paid game streaming star Ninja to defect from Amazon’s Twitch

Microsoft agreed to pay game streaming star Tyler “Ninja” Blevins between $20 million and $30 million per year to join… Read More

Game streaming report: ‘Just Chatting’ category takes over Twitch; Facebook Gaming sees growth

The quickly-growing audience for streaming sites has continued to embrace the “Just Chatting” category, which overtook more games-oriented programming on… Read More

Microsoft’s Mixer grows audience, but Amazon’s Twitch continues to dominate streaming market

Users watched more than twice as many hours on Mixer in 2019 as they did the year before, but despite… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch embroiled in Russian legal dispute over English Premier League streams

Amazon is fielding a major lawsuit from Russian internet giant Rambler Group, which claims Twitch has violated its rights to… Read More

Tech Moves: OneLogin snags ex-DocuSign security leader; Hootsuite’s longtime CEO steps down

— Identity management startup OneLogin hired Vanessa Pegueros, the former chief information security officer of DocuSign and Expedia, to lead… Read More

Tech Moves: Google names ex-Cortana chief to lead G Suite; Twitch hires ex-Zynga exec as CMO

— Amazon-owned Twitch hired Doug Scott as chief marketing officer of the live streaming platform, based out of San Francisco.… Read More

State of streaming: Twitch’s new growth category; the Ninja effect on Mixer; ‘Fortnite’ viewership down

Amazon-owned Twitch still dominates the streaming space; Ninja’s move to Mixer hasn’t helped Microsoft with user growth; Fortnite viewership is… Read More

Mixer co-founders depart as Microsoft’s game streaming service battles Amazon’s Twitch

Mixer has lost both of its co-founders as the Microsoft-owned streaming service looks to mount a challenge to the incumbent… Read More

Amazon-owned Twitch ‘shocked and saddened’ after synagogue shooting streams on its platform

A shooting at a synagogue in Germany that resulted in the deaths of two people was live-streamed on Amazon’s Twitch,… Read More

Ninja ‘disgusted’ with Amazon-owned Twitch after porn was promoted on his account

Ninja is not happy. The video game streaming star posted a video Sunday accusing Amazon-owned Twitch of using his channel… Read More

Streaming star Ninja hits 1 million subscribers on Microsoft’s Mixer just days after Twitch switch

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins said he wanted to “get back to his streaming roots” when he announced he was jumping from… Read More

Esports star Ninja ditches Amazon’s Twitch, inks exclusive streaming deal with Microsoft’s Mixer

It’s a huge day for Microsoft’s Mixer streaming platform. Esports star Tyler Blevins, a.k.a. “Ninja,” announced Thursday that he will… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch snaps up former social media darling Bebo to grow esports presence

Amazon-owned Twitch has purchased esports company and early social media contender Bebo to grow its presence in the gaming world.… Read More

Amazon’s newest Twitch Prime perk: Up to a year of free Nintendo Switch Online access

Amazon added another goodie to Twitch Prime, a series of benefits for gamers, up to a free year of the… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch launches Squad Stream feature to let up to 4 streamers play together

Up to four game streamers on Twitch can now broadcast their points of view within the same window thanks to a… Read More

‘Thursday Night Football’ to feature co-stream by hugely popular gamer ‘Ninja’ on Amazon’s Twitch

The Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers will show off their brand of “multiplayer entertainment” in a “Thursday Night… Read More

Microsoft’s Twitch competitor Mixer doubles down on audience participation with ‘Season 2’ features

It’s been more than two years since Microsoft bought the Seattle game-streaming service Beam, later rebranding it as Mixer, and now… Read More

Amazon-owned Twitch adds a new verse to the same old song by developing a karaoke game

Twitch is getting into the karaoke world with what it calls a new category of game by the name of… Read More

Tech Moves: Cloudability hires former Chef and Qumulo exec; Kymeta adds sales execs; and more

Portland-based Cloudability has hired a new vice president of marketing: Cloud marketing leader and early Chef executive Jay Wampold. Wampold… Read More

Born inside RealNetworks, Scener is a new Twitch-like commentary platform for streaming media

A new software platform incubated inside RealNetworks is aiming to spice up streaming shows and movies with a Twitch-like social… Read More

TLDR: New Amazon Go store in Seattle, mass shooting at Florida esports tournament, new Xbox subscription service

Today’s featured stories Amazon makes another Go of checkout-free retail: Here’s what’s different inside latest Seattle location Mass shooting at… Read More

Mass shooting at Florida video game tournament livestreamed on Twitch, multiple fatalities reported

Update, 6:35 p.m. PT: Authorities confirmed that three people died at the shooting, including the suspect, David Katz, a 24-year-old from… Read More

Pokemon

Catch this streaming marathon if you can: Twitch to feature hundreds of Pokémon episodes and movies

Twitch and The Pokémon Co. are teaming to help fans catch hundreds of episodes of the animated TV series while… Read More

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