Twitch (website)
Twitch, also Twitch.tv or TwitchTV, a live streaming platform that is used for transmission of video games.
Anyone with an account can create your own channel and broadcast to this gameplay of various games. To transfer a streaming software like the programs or open XSplit Broadcaster software required. With a Playstation 4 and the Xbox One can be transferred directly gameplay.
History
After the opening of the Justin.tv page had a lot of users very quickly. Especially the video game category grew extremely strong. That's why the makers of the streaming portal created the sister site Twitch.tv, which should only be used for video gaming and e-sports transmission. Twitch.tv was published in June 2011 in a beta version.
May 1, 2012 Twitch.tv won a Webby Award entitled " Webby People's Voice Award " in the category Video Games.
2013 saw Twitch monthly more than 45 million viewers to 6 million streaming channels. As a result, the company that operates Justin.tv and Twitch.tv was renamed in February 2014 Justin.tv Inc. in Twitch Entertainment Inc..
Content and users
Among the most games on show include League of Legends, Dota 2, StarCraft II, World of Warcraft and Minecraft. At Twitch many big e-sports events are shown. These include the League of Legends World Championships and the League Championship Series, the Dota 2 tournament The International, the StarCraft II World Championship Series, the world's largest LAN party, DreamHack and the Intel Extreme Masters.
The site is available worldwide on the 306th Alexa rank. In Germany it is number 340, directly at skype.com. A majority of users are from the United States of America.
Data of Twitch U.S. company DeepField.com According generated during the daily peak times in February 2014 about 1.8 % of the generated by companies Internet traffic in the United States. For the service is fourth, behind Netflix, Google and Apple.
Beginning of 2014 published Twitch many statistics about the past year. It was known among other things, that 12 billion minutes Twitch content has been seen by 45 million viewers each month. This is a doubling compared to 2012th The average attendance is 21 years old.
Affiliate
In July 2011, Twitch opened a partner program, which is similar to that of YouTube. Streamer with constant more than 500 spectators may apply. These partners get the option of displaying ads in their streams. For the partner receives a portion of the advertising revenue that come into being so. In addition, viewers can the channels of partners for $ 5 per month to subscribe to.
2013 were from the monthly 900,000 streamers over 5,000 active partners.