Periscope competitor Stre.am expands with pivot to mobile esports

While Twitch and YouTube gobble up live and recorded video for traditional gaming platforms, a battle is heating up on smartphones.

Stre.am, a mobile livestreaming video company, is expanding from camera-based content to video games — at least on Android. It’s using the new additions to Google’s operating system to enable broadcasters to share their gameplay action live online. This puts the company in competition with upstarts like Kamcord and a surging Mobcrush, which has started gaining serious traction with Clash of Clans and Boom Beach fans. Mobile gaming is a $34.8 billion business, and it is growing faster around the world than PC or consoles. And as people get more serious about this hobby, they’re going to want more content. Kamcord has already seen some of its more popular streamers attract nearly 200,000 unique viewers in a matter of hours.