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YouTube Gaming brings out the influencers for E3

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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On YouTube, six of the top 10 broadcasters are game broadcasters. And YouTube Gaming was out in full force this week to cover the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles this week.

The live broadcasts included nine hours of live programming by game media star Geoff Keighley, who had 75 people helping him pull his show together. YouTube also aired a lot of live programming from GameSpot, IGN, Giant Bomb, and Rooster Teeth. One of the people who made it all happen was Ryan Wyatt, the head of gaming content at YouTube, as part of an effort to make YouTube the destination for all things gaming.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.