From PC World: Remember when everyone thought YouTube was about to buy games-streaming service Twitch last year—like, really thought it was going to happen—and then the deal fell apart at the last second and somehow Amazon emerged with the big purple crown?
Apparently YouTube's been busy since then. The Daily Dot reports that in the wake of its stymied buyout, YouTube has apparently decided to relaunch its own streaming-service YouTube Live as a games-oriented Twitch competitor. According to an anonymous source, "Gaming and e-sports in particular are going to be a big driving force for the new-look YouTube Live."
And sure, you might say "Well wasn't that what YouTube's streaming service already tried to do?" to which I say...I thought so. But apparently Google thinks it just didn't try hard enough.
There are some interesting tidbits from The Daily Dot's report though, like this quote from the same anonymous source:
"There’ll be huge opportunities for established streamers and organizations soon and I would say that the record numbers of e-sports viewers are only going to grow when Google start promoting and partnering with these events."
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