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Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.
basic layout of the UI is similar to Twitch, making it easy for existing Twitch users to adapt. mobile application offers a feature to zoom in on specific parts of the screen. sponsorship currency, cheese (twitch bits), can be paid with Naver Pay or accumulated Naver Pay points.
Users can also gift subscriptions to others, so subscriber numbers can increase. [3] A subscription expires after one month and can be renewed for a "subscription streak". [4] [5] As of November 30, 2024, Kai Cenat holds the most-subscribed channel on Twitch of all time, with 728,535 subscribers. [6] [1]
Twitch—then Ahgren's livestreaming platform—also saw heightened popularity in 2020, partially due to the COVID-19 lockdowns creating a higher demand for online entertainment. [4] According to Taylor Lorenz of The New York Times , Ahgren's stream may be "an extension of the trend of creators monetizing more and more parts of their lives".
It later became popular in the mid-2010s on sites such as Twitch. [5] By 2014, Twitch streams had more traffic than HBO Go and eventually hastened the closure of Justin.tv, which Twitch had originally spun out of. [6] [7] In 2015, YouTube launched YouTube Gaming, a video gaming-oriented sub-site and app that intended to compete with Twitch. [8]
The main presentation was held on the first day of the event by djWHEAT, director of Twitch studios, who made numerous statements about forthcoming features for the platform. [6] Twitch Speaks, a speaking series first presented at TwitchCon 2018, featured Tony Hawk, Kevin Smith, Felicia Day, Emmett Shear, and Ninja. [7]
A report by Streamlabs and Newzoo reported that in the third quarter of 2019, Mixer had a 188% quarter-by-quarter increase in the amount of unique hours of content being streamed on the service, but that the percentage of concurrent viewers had fallen by 11.7%. [23]
Ninja is the most-followed channel on Twitch. [1]The live streaming social platform Twitch launched in 2011 and is an important platform for digital entertainment. [2] [3] The distribution of followers across all of the streamers on Twitch follows the power law, [4] and is a useful metric for assessing the popularity a streamer has on the platform.