Twitch out-ranks cable news networks, MTV at times

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Amazon certainly thinks that Twitch is a good investment, as it just spent nearly $1 billion to buy Twitch and all of its live-game-streaming accoutrement. It turns out Twitch stacks up well against a lineup of cable networks, drawing in more viewers than HLN, CNN, E!, MSNBC, TruTV and even MTV during peak hours, The New York Times reports.

Twitch's viewership has been on the rise since 2012, topping out at nearly 800,000 primetime viewers this year. However, going by hours of content viewed per month, Twitch pales in comparison with Netflix and YouTube. Netflix is roughly eight times larger than Twitch, and Youtube is 24 times larger, NYT says.

We've reported on some numbers from Twitch recently as well: In February, Twitch hit 1 million active monthly users and it replaced Justin.tv (now defunct) as the company's corporate name; 1.1 million users participated in the first Twitch Plays Pokemon event, drawing 36 million views; during the week of E3 2014, Twitch pulled down 12 million unique views.



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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/28/twitch-out-ranks-cable-news-networks-mtv-at-times/

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YuiPosted:

I love twitch, I watch League of Legends on there at times. Riot games when they are streaming the LCS always seems to have over 250,000 Viewers each stream.

AchePosted:

I still cannot believe they bought Twitch for nearly 1 billion dollars.

It's crazy how social media works and how much money people make off these things.

OrthoPosted:

Rin MTV still exists and it's even more horrible than it was before.


it's really bad now. it used to be decent 10 years ago

RinPosted:

MTV still exists and it's even more horrible than it was before.

IntPosted:

I love twitch, csgo streams are amazing that's all i really use twitch for unless im streaming sometimes.

MarkzehhPosted:

ive used twitch ever since they created it instead of justintv (way back lol)

OrthoPosted:

Gossip This is the closest thing to TV that I watch.


I just recently started getting into twitch

GossipPosted:

This is the closest thing to TV that I watch.

YokePosted:

I never really use Twitch compared to some other people...

1989Posted:

-Mercer I only used twitch once a while back to stream zombies. I actually might start streaming again soon!


i barely go on twitch myself