The teens were out in force today in San Jose for the annual TwitchCon game-streaming conference. There, Twitch announced that at any given time, 1 million people are watching it (up from 746,000 last year), and it seemed like many game lovers were at TwitchCon in person to meet some of the nearly half-million web […]
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Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital brings in $1B
Thrive Capital has announced the close of its largest fund to date.
View More Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital brings in $1BIn-car commerce startup Cargo raises $22 million led by Founders Fund
Cargo, the startup that helps ridesharing drivers earn money by bringing the convenience store into their vehicles, has raised $22 million in a Series A round led by Founders Fund . Additional investment came from Coatue Management, Aquiline Technology Growth as well as a number of high-profile entertainment, gaming, and technology executives who include Zynga founder […]
View More In-car commerce startup Cargo raises $22 million led by Founders FundAmazon’s Thursday Night Football live stream will feature real-time stats, Amazon.com shopping
Amazon is taking full advantage of its deal to live stream Thursday Night Football games, which it snagged the rights to earlier this year. The company will this year launch a TNF pre-game show, co-stream the games on its video game streaming site Twitch, and will leverage Prime Video’s “X-Ray” technology to give viewers access to real-time stats, […]
View More Amazon’s Thursday Night Football live stream will feature real-time stats, Amazon.com shoppingLive streams of karate and niche sports are terrifying major sports leagues
Of the 100 most-watched live telecasts in the US in 2005, 14 were sporting events; in 2015, sporting events comprised 93 of the top 100 telecasts. That shift occurred because TV shows are shifting to online or on-demand viewing, and live broadcasts of the biggest sports are the main thing TV networks have left to […]
View More Live streams of karate and niche sports are terrifying major sports leaguesChina blocks Twitch
Last month, Twitch popularity surged in China thanks to the streaming service’s coverage of eSports events during the Asian Games. So many Chinese people flocked to the service that the iOS Twitch app surged to third spot in the free app charts. Howe…
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YouTube Gaming is officially dead.
In a blog post today, YouTube announced that it’s dedicated YouTube Gaming app will soon cease to exist. The app will officially be retired In March 2019.
But, don’t be mistaken. The shutdown of the YouTube Gaming app has more to do with the inability of the dedicated outlet to take off than anything concerning the success of video game livestreaming on YouTube.
On the contrary, according to YouTube’s Global Head of Gaming, Ryan Wyatt, gaming is bigger than ever on YouTube. “50 billion hours of Gaming content watched on YouTube in the last 12 months and 200M daily logged-in users watch Gaming every single day on YouTube,” Wyatt said in a tweet. Read more…
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View More YouTube will close YouTube Gaming, move it all to the main siteTwitch updates security for its TwitchCon event following the Jacksonville esports shooting
Twitch is today announcing changes to its security procedures for its TwitchCon event taking place in San Jose, California on October 26-28. The update follows news of the tragic shooting at an esports event in Jacksonville, Florida last month where three people died, including the shooter, and 11 were injured. Twitch said it would review its […]
View More Twitch updates security for its TwitchCon event following the Jacksonville esports shootingTwitch now has four women in its seven-person C-suite
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Ok, Twitch!
The video game streaming service Twitch announced on Friday three new leadership hires. And with the addition of three new female executives, Twitch’s team of C-level executives has just become majority women.
Now, four out of seven of Twitch’s chief executives are female — which is not something you see every day in the good ol’ tech industry.
According to Fortune, Twitch hired Katrina Jones as chief of diversity and inclusion, Sudarshana Rangachary as chief human resources officer, and Michelle Weaver as chief financial officer. Jones’ diversity and inclusion role is a new one for the Amazon-owned company. Read more…
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Twitch hires head of diversity and inclusion
Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming platform, has brought on its first head of diversity and inclusion, as well as a new chief financial officer and chief human resources officer. Katrina Jones, who will start next month as Twitch’s head of diversity and inclusion, is the former head of diversity at Vimeo. At Vimeo, Jones created the […]
View More Twitch hires head of diversity and inclusionMass shooting at Madden Championship Series event in Florida leaves several dead
At least eleven people have been shot and four people were killed in a mass shooting attack at a livestream event debuting the new “Madden NFL 19” game at an arcade in Jacksonville, Fla., according to local news reports. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s office confirmed on Twitter that one suspect was dead at the scene and […]
View More Mass shooting at Madden Championship Series event in Florida leaves several deadPirated Twitch streams hijack YouTube’s pay-per-view Logan Paul/KSI boxing match
Today, there was a little bit of a skirmish between two professional YouTubers. Our dear old friend Logan Paul and KSI had an actual boxing match at the Manchester Arena where 15,000 tickets were sold (!!!!!!!!) for an event that ultimately ended in a draw and vows for a rematch. The action onstage wasn’t the […]
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