[ad_1] She’s not alone. Featured streamers like RobotGiggles are going from having 47,545 followers on Mixer, to around 6,100 followers on Twitch. LenaAxios will have to walk away from her 122,423 Mixer followers for just 5,900 on Twitch. And for those few streamers who are making the leap to Facebook Gaming, it’ll still be a difficult […]
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Microsoft’s Mixer streamers have a decision to make
[ad_1] That choice has now been moved forward. Mixer will shut down on July 22nd, which doesn’t give the stars much time to figure out a solution. Ninja and Shroud don’t have to worry about their finances, at least. The pair reportedly received “full payments” from Mixer, meaning they made the same amount of money […]
Twitch viewing soared 23 percent in March
[ad_1] Twitch also saw a 17 percent jump in total hours watched compared to the previous quarter, and a 19.5 percent leap in concurrent viewers. The number of unique channels has jumped 33 percent over that past quarter. And while the total number of hours streamed had been declining throughout 2019, it’s now at a […]
Ninja’s management agency is ‘actively seeking to diversify’ its talent pool
[ad_1] Just as the debut LCS tournament was playing out in June 2011, the streaming site Justin.tv launched Twitch, a live-video platform dedicated to gaming. Today, Amazon owns Twitch and streaming is mainstream, with popular personalities regularly commanding multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals. While Twitch has dominated this space for the past half decade, competitors like Mixer […]
YouTube will stream Blizzard’s CoD and Overwatch leagues in 2020
[ad_1] Esports lives on @YouTubeGaming. Welcome to the family, Overwatch League, Call of Duty League, and Hearthstone Esports. Let’s get this thing going with the inaugural season of the Call of Duty league kicking off today! https://t.co/9PAUaaQSz0https://t.co/p9kSbD9aAi pic.twitter.com/rBVpf0Re3H — Ryan Wyatt (@Fwiz) January 24, 2020 As part of a multi-year deal, Google Cloud will handle […]
Facebook Gaming viewership skyrocketed in 2019
[ad_1] It’s worth noting that market share is a relative metric and a number of factors are in play, including a larger overall audience on these services — viewers watched 1.19 billion hours across the four of them in December, up from 1.06 billion a year earlier. The report suggests that Facebook Gaming’s growth is […]
How Twitch started to lose its grip on video game streaming
[ad_1] On a recent episode of YouTuber Brian Davis’ The True Geordie Podcast, Ninja explained that he had “wanted to make it work” with Twitch and spent roughly eight months trying to renegotiate with the company. The streamer wanted “a little bit more freedom,” he told Davis, but couldn’t come to an agreement. “They just […]
Top Twitch streamer CouRage jumps to YouTube
[ad_1] CouRage will be a familiar face to streaming and esports fans. He has more than 2.1 million Twitch followers and already had a sizable presence on YouTube with almost 1.9 million subscribers. Along with streaming his own gameplay, Dunlop’s known for esports hosting and commentating, including at Call of Duty and Fortnite events. He’ll […]
YouTube Gaming will merge the with main site after Thursday
[ad_1] In the announcement on its Google support page, YouTube said that sending visitors to the main platform would make it easier for gaming fans to connect. “We want to continue to build a stronger home for the gaming community that thrives on YouTube, not just the YouTube Gaming app,” the company said. As for […]