Twitch’s first convention had more than 20K attendees and 1.9M viewers
It was a big weekend for the top game-broadcasting website, and now it’s time for Twitch to beat its chest a bit. The livestreaming site...
1.7M Twitch broadcasters have livestreamed 7.5B minutes of gaming content
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.
Twitch ditching Flash for HTML 5 next year
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.
Amazon’s Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon’s Twitch division, announced at the TwitchCon 2015...
TwitchCon 2015 opens with a brief history of livestreaming
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.
5 must-see events from TwitchCon
Livestreaming game site Twitch is about to hold its first ever fan event later this month, and the company is starting to share some...
TwitchCon 2015’s schedule is filling up fast with huge streamers
Gaming's biggest live-video site is inviting dozens of its top broadcasters to make sure the first TwitchCon is extra special.
TwitchCon: Twitch is throwing its own convention in September
Amazon's live-video platform has some big news.