Twitch is an American live-streaming service best known for video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions, and it also carries music, creative work and everyday life streams. Viewers can watch broadcasts live or as video on demand. It began in June 2011 as a spin-off of the gaming category of Justin.tv, the general-interest streaming site launched in 2007 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, and its popularity soon eclipsed the parent site. When Justin.tv was shut down in August 2014 its parent company was renamed Twitch Interactive, and that same month Amazon bought the service for 970 million US dollars, which led to links with the Amazon Prime subscription. By 2015 Twitch drew more than 100 million viewers a month, and it holds its own convention, TwitchCon, which first met in San Francisco in 2015. Twitch is a defining example of how live, interactive audiences became a media form of their own, set beside television and recorded online video.
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Twitch is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon Entertainment, a division of Amazon.
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On August 1, 2016, it was reported that Twitch had signed a lease for 185,000 square feet (17,187 m2) in a new office tower to be constructed at 350 Bush Street in San Francisco.
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Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions.
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It launched officially in public beta on June 6, 2011.
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Twitch is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon Entertainment, a division of Amazon.
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On August 1, 2016, it was reported that Twitch had signed a lease for 185,000 square feet (17,187 m2) in a new office tower to be constructed at 350 Bush Street in San Francisco.
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Twitch is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon Entertainment, a division of Amazon.
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