YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by keypusher on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:00PM (#7765155)

Twitch currently accounts for ~1.5% of all U.S. bandwidth.

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by pooper on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:20PM (#7765193)

Slightly off topic but If I remember right, about a question of viability someone at Justin.tv (I guess now twitch) said (this is about four years ago) that playing like a thirty second ad clip can more than cover their operational cost of streaming for an hour. I guess what I wanted to hear from that was that streaming is cheap. Scale probably matters a lot though.

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by azth on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:45PM (#7765246)

Very impressive number. Source?

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by keypusher on Monday May 19, 2014 @05:54PM (#7769974)

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-youtube-bandwid...

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by cjhopman on Sunday May 18, 2014 @11:31PM (#7765559)

I find that incredibly unlikely. Do you have a source?

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by kevinwang on Sunday May 18, 2014 @11:51PM (#7765607)

It's mentioned at the bottom of the article, and it links to http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-youtube-bandwid...

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