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1.7M Twitch broadcasters have livestreamed 7.5B minutes of gaming content

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 25, 2015
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Twitch is larger than ever. The game-broadcasting behemoth is holding its first ever convention this weekend in San Francisco, and it revealed some of the numbers behind its success. This includes a total of 1.7 million individuals who use the Twitch platform to livestream games.

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Twitch ditching Flash for HTML 5 next year

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 25, 2015
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Emmet Shear, chief executive officer of Twitch, announced that the game-livestreaming site will switch over fully from Flash to HTML 5 in the second quarter of 2016. With 1.7 million people broadcasting on Twitch, this is another blow for Flash, which is losing support across the Internet.

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Amazon’s Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 25, 2015
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SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon’s Twitch division, announced at the TwitchCon 2015...

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TwitchCon 2015 opens with a brief history of livestreaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 25, 2015
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The first major convention for Twitch gameplay livestreaming broadcasters has started in at the sprawling Moscone West convention hall. Marcus “DJ Wheat” Graham opened the event, to a ton of and roaring.