Despite the fact that many analysts were confident that Twitch would get to the information giant Google, after which it would become part of its company YouTube, fate decided to dispose of otherwise.
Today it became known that the service Twitch still get not a search giant, and another large company. She became the largest online store Amazon. It turns out that somewhere, lawyers at Google made a blunder, and so desired video streaming service slipped from their tenacious fingers.
It was officially confirmed that Amazon acquires Twitch for $ 970 million. Those who do not know, we recall that Twitch is a video service that allows you to stream gameplay, in parallel with the comments of players, which originated about three years ago and gained frenzied popularity among gamers.
At the end of 2013, over 40 million people around the world used the Twitch service. Many of them watched more than 100 minutes of video per day, which is an incredible indicator for this kind of services. Just imagine how crazy money you can make from advertising with such an audience!
The head of Twitch, Emmett Shear, published on the official website an open letter confirming the acquisition of his brainchild by Amazon. According to him, the choice fell on Amazon because he and the rest of his company's leaders share the vision of the future Twitch service, which was presented to them by the employees of the giant e-commerce.
After the acquisition, Twitch will work in normal mode, so you should not worry about it. And this is how it will change further - while it is very early to judge. But surely time will put everything in its place.
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