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Official: Amazon Acquires Twitch for $970 million in cash
- Thread starter NateDrake
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Keyser Soze
Member
"Buy this game now on Amazon" under every video. Fun!
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qizah
Unconfirmed Member
Where are the people who were bitching about Google ruining Twitch now?
Twitch ruined Twitch.
Twitch ruined Twitch.
TatteredHat
Member
I'd rather see Twitch in the hands of Amazon than in the hands of Google, so I'm okay with this. $970 million in cash though, I wonder if that's literal.
RealityPales
Member
Crazy how fast Twitch grew. I don't think I even knew what Twitch was early last year. Now, I use it regularly right through my PS4.
Same with Oculus.
Same with Oculus.
Phrozenflame500
Member
I'm not sure that Amazon will be necessarily better then Google, but halting a possible monopoly makes this good news on it's own.
Seriously. If you're getting 970 you might as well just round that bitch up to the full Ben.
...You don't trust Twitch and Amazon to accurately announce the acquisition deal?
Insane amounts of traffic do not equal revenue. What they do equal is very high bandwidth costs.
Add into that the chance that game companies could begin suing to shut down streams at any time, which kills your entire business, and you have a very unstable market.
Honestly, I'm kind of shocked it was worth even this much.
Hidden One
Member
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Hopefully this means a better twitch app for my kindle fire!
Better than google that's for sure.
I wonder if Amazon is going to integrate Twich streaming videos into their instant video?
AuthenticM
Member
How does this change the situation in any way? The archive changes are still in place and we don't know how Amazon's takeover will pan out.
BronsonLee
Member
They both officially announced it. What are they, lying now?
Baroquemantic
Member
The changes are still there. They didn't magically reverse that just because the deal with Amazon was finalized.
Exploratory
Banned
I've never had a problem with Amazon. Not even once. I don't think I can say that about any other company I've dealt with. When I received a broken monitor once they somehow got me a replacement the next day. I still don't know how they even did that. And they gave me amazon credit too for the trouble.
As opposed to Google who...well...Content Id amirite?
As opposed to Google who...well...Content Id amirite?
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Better Amazon than Google. Screw Google, they ruined Youtube.
I knew someone was going to say that, a lot of people jumped ship when they first heard about the deal with google. thats what i was referring to.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It's not, which is probably why Google backed out.
Twitch didn't even show ads integrated into the streams, I'm just not seeing how Amazon thinks they are going to make back the billion they spent.
SerTapTap
Member
Does Amazon do anything else that's primarily ad supported? I know Kindle Fires have a "with promotions" option but it's not their primary focus. Seems like a weird get, as I said in the other thread. I guess this is better as we wont' be seeing full-on content ID, and the muted VODs situation seems to have actually been a mistake (a catastrophic one, but still).
Haunted
Member
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People jumped ship due to Twitch's changes in vod policy and the audio recognition business, unless Amazon orders twitch to revert these (unlikely), the switch is still justified.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Pretty much.
I like Amazon as a company, even small things like Autorip just make all the difference and the Prime service with video, lending library and delivery just make it hard for me to dislike them as a company.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I'd love to know the logic behind your post.
Twitch is huge and only really set to grow. eSports is gaining huge ground with consoles now having built in to twitch streaming and MOBA's being the phenomenon they are.
We now have more live streams for panels and conferences than at any other time and the vast majority of those are watched and broadcast from twitch.
It's difficult to monetize in it's current format but it's a dream advertising space and with a few tweaks it could sustain a premium service that offers higher quality streams or exclusive video content.
Hell it could even expand to be a source of gaming trailers, exclusive content and reviews like Gametrailers.
It's got so much potential.
The archive changes have been softened (highlight length limit removed) and the detection algorithm for copyrighted music is still being adjusted.
Also, I kind of got the impression that some people were supposedly jumping to Hitbox to avoid some sort of Google apocalypse where you could no longer stream video games on Twitch.
ultraspank
Member
I think the same.
ChosenPredator
Banned
lol@ liriks stream donation comment "Amazon has said they've switch the focus of gaming to live reading on streams"
NegativeCero
Banned
I don't know what this means yet. Amazon has been pretty good at not being terrible, but I'll keep my healthy skepticism of large corporations for now.
It says cash though.
Happy-Bunny
Banned
Oh snap!
I was trying to state that I still think Hitbox is looking like the better option right now. My change is still justified.
How does this affect the people who left to Hitbox? It is not like they would have gotten money out of this had they stayed...
This doesn't change any of twitch's new implementations as well. In fact, we don't know what Amazon will want changed with it yet.
Got the opposite meaning out of that. Heh