{"id":68252,"date":"2014-08-25T22:52:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T20:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68252"},"modified":"2014-08-25T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T20:53:22","slug":"amazon-buys-twitch-for-970-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/68252-amazon-buys-twitch-for-970-million","title":{"rendered":"Amazon buys Twitch for $970 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when Google (through YouTube<\/a>) was reportedly going to buy Twitch.tv for a billion big ones (R10.7 billion)?<\/p>\n

Well, SYKE! Because Amazon has just gone and stole YouTube’s thunder and swiped the video streaming service right from under them for just under that ($970 million – or R10.4 billion).<\/p>\n

Why all the fuss? And how could a gaming-centric video streaming service pull so much moola?<\/p>\n

Well, according to Twitch, in July, more than 55 million unique visitors viewed more than 15 billion minutes of content on Twitch, produced by more than 1 million broadcasters.<\/p>\n

This includes individual gamers, pro players, publishers, developers, media outlets, conventions and stadium-filling eSports organizations.<\/p>\n

This is no small pony show, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

“Being part of Amazon will let us do even more for our community. We will be able to create tools and services faster than we could have independently,” said Twitch CEO, Emmett Shear.<\/p>\n

“This change will mean great things for our community, and will let us bring Twitch to even more people around the world.”<\/p>\n

That’s that, then. We do love a juicy coup – I wonder how Google is feeling?<\/p>\n

Do you use Twitch? What do you make of all this? Let us know in the comments and on the forum.<\/p>\n

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Surprise! Amazon just stole Google’s thunder and nabbed Twitch for almost $1 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":52878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2794,7579],"class_list":["post-68252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-amazon","tag-twitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}