YouTube Gaming vs Twitch- Your Gaming Channel?

Which Gaming CHannel are you watching your favorite video gameplay.

YouTube Gaming keeps you connected to the games, players, and culture that matter to you. Featuring videos and live streams with chat — including let's plays, reviews, speedruns, trailers, and more from your favorite gamers and publishers — you can explore the games you care about more deeply than ever before.

With videos covering Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto, League of Legends, Call of Duty, Garry’s Mod, and tens of thousands more, it’s all on YouTube Gaming.

Note that you may encounter mature content in YouTube Gaming.

VIDEOS AND LIVE STREAMS ALL IN ONE PLACE
• Watch videos from more than 25,000 games
• Experience live streams while chatting with other gamers
• Get recommended videos based on games you love

A DESIGN BUILT FOR GAMERS
• Browse dedicated pages for every game, as well as publisher and gamer channels
• Explore categories from reviews to let’s plays, machinima, eSports, and more
• Favorite your games and channels for updates and easy access

THE BIGGEST GAMING COMMUNITY
• Receive live stream notifications to keep up with the action
• Join a community of publishers and gamers over 100 million strong
• Tune in to live streams of events like E3, PAX, and Gamescom

Twitch is a live streaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. Introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv, the site primarily focuses on video gaming, includingplaythroughs of video games, broadcasts of esports competitions, creative content, and more recently, music broadcasts. Content on the site can either be viewed live, or viewed via Video on demand.

The popularity of Twitch would eclipse that of its general-interest counterpart; in October 2013, the website had 45 million unique viewers,[3]:38 and by February 2014, it was considered the fourth largest source of peak Internet traffic in the United States. At the same time, Justin.tv's parent company was re-branded as Twitch Interactive to represent the shift in focus – Justin.tv was shut down in August 2014.[4][5] The site has also branched out into music-related streams and content. In 2015, Twitch announced it had more than 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million visitors per month.

New Twitch app on PS4 Full Feature

Greatness awaits your #PS4 when you install the new Twitch app! Our PlayStation 4 app provides the full Twitch experience. You can watch, follow, or interact with any broadcaster or game on Twitch – not just those broadcasting from PlayStation.

Greatness awaits your #PS4 when you install the new Twitch app!
https://t.co/WZJrLSeQ6u

— Twitch (@Twitch) October 20, 2015

• Live and recorded video of top games, players & esports events. 


• Full chat support with all your favorite emoticons (PS4). 


• Ability to follow channels and games you want to keep tabs on 


• Special section to help you discover PlayStation 4 broadcasters

Xbox One gets all new Twitch features

XBox One new features on Twitch revealed. The Twitch on Xbox One app just got a huge update, with some awesome new filtering features that should help you find exactly what you want to watch at a moment’s notice.

"We are excited to deliver our biggest Xbox One update, packed with more features our community has requested."



It’s not just live - highlights and past broadcasts are available, too!



Xbox One is the first platform to bring you a full-featured app with Twitch videos on demand (VODs). Beginning today, you’ll see VODs (i.e., highlights and past broadcasts) gradually added to channel pages, even when the broadcaster is offline.

Your new, personalized homepage

The redesigned homepage puts the content you follow front and center. To curate your experience, hover over any Game or Channel, press the Menu button, and select Follow.



Advanced directories for your favorite Xbox One games



Have you ever wanted to find the best Call of Duty player currently broadcasting? Now that’s possible. We’ve teamed up with Xbox to make it easy to watch content most relevant to you.

New content from Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS

Join us Nintendo for Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ The Treehouse where we’ll be live streaming via Twitch game play of upcoming titles including new content from Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS. You don’t want to miss it!

Twitch acquired by Amazon for US 1Billion

Got this e-mail from Emmett Shear, Chief Executive Officer of Twitch About Amazon acquiring Twitch. It was announced earlier that Amazon had purchased Twitch for $970 million in cash, with stock options likely pushing the deal well past the $1 billion mark.

Amazon said they will not changed Twitch. Twitch was launched in June 2011 by Justin.tv co-founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear and focuses on live video game streams and eSports broadcasting, though the company has started to expand its live offerings beyond video games.

Dear Twitch Community

It’s almost unbelievable that slightly more than 3 years ago, Twitch didn’t exist. The moment we launched, we knew we had stumbled across something special. But what followed surprised us as much as anyone else, and the impact it’s had on both the community and us has been truly profound.

Your talent, your passion, your dedication to gaming, your memes, your brilliance - these have made Twitch what it is today. Every day, we strive to live up to the standard set by you, the community. We want to create the very best place to share your gaming and life online, and that mission continues to guide us.

Together with you, we’ve found new ways of connecting developers and publishers with their fans. We’ve created a whole new kind of career that lets people make a living sharing their love of games. We’ve brought billions of hours of entertainment, laughter, joy and the occasional ragequit. I think we can all call that a pretty good start.

I’m pleased to announce we’ve been acquired by Amazon. We chose Amazon because they believe in our community, they share our values and long-term vision, and they want to help us get there faster. We’re keeping most everything the same: our office, our employees, our brand, and most importantly our independence. But with Amazon’s support we’ll have the resources to bring you an even better Twitch.

I personally want to thank you, each and every member of the Twitch community, for what you’ve created. Thank you for putting your faith in us. Thank you for sticking with us through growing pains and stumbles. Thank you for bringing your very best to us and sharing it with the world. Thank you, from a group of gamers who never dreamed they’d get to help shape the face of the industry that we love so much.

It’s dangerous to go alone. On behalf of myself and everyone else at Twitch, thank you for coming with us.

Emmett Shear, CEO