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Streaming site Twitch is taking legal action against seven companies that offer viewbotting services. In a post on the Twitch blog Matthew DiPietro, SVP of Marketing at Twitch, said that the company is actively targeting any service that tries to artificially inflate viewer numbers, follower numbers and chat activity by …
Read More »Twitch unveils new Clips feature to challenge Oddshot
Twitch has announced Clips; a new feature that allows viewers to save 30 second video clips from any live stream. When something amazing happens on stream, all users have to do is press the Clip button, this will save the previous 25 seconds of the stream along with the next …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Twitch recruits events marketing chief
Christou arrives from Premier, Green Man Gaming welcomes new comms boss and Judge joins IGN. Twitch hires events marketing chief Former Premier PR senior publicist Kelsey Christou has joined Twitch UK. Christou started her career in the games industry four years ago as an assistant publicist at Premier where she …
Read More »ELEAGUE will be broadcast on Twitch thanks to multi year deal
Turner and WME | IMG, the two companies running ELEAGUE, have partnered with Twitch in order to broadcast the upcoming competition on the streaming platform. The multi year deal means all the live matches from ELEAGUE will be broadcast on Twitch along with on demand content. Each week will see …
Read More »You can watch the Women In Games Awards 2016 right here
Today we celebrate the Top 30 Women in Games, and will find our who has won the six award categories at a special ceremony in London. But if you can’t make it, don’t worry,you can log on and watch the whole thing on Twitch.tv live. TheWomen in Games Awards 2016can …
Read More »Twitch and FACEIT bring ECS CS:GO league finals to Wembley Arena
FACEIT and Twitch have today announced that the LAN finals for the ECS CS:GO league will be held at Wembley Arena on June 25th and 26th. The top eight teams from the league stage of the competition will head to Wembley Arena to battle it out across the two day …
Read More »Twitch and Next Generation eSports partner to produce the Rocket League Championship Series
Next Generation eSports and Twitch have partnered in order to produce the Rocket League Championship Series. The competition will be streamed on Twitch, who are working with Rocket League developer Psyonix, to build the community and infrastructure to foster long-term growth for Rocket League. The new partnership with Next Generation …
Read More »Live streaming start-up VREAL is ‘Twitch for virtual reality’
Platform will support 360-degree streaming to both headsets and PC screens
Read More »Amazon: Connecting audiences is more important than VR
VP of Amazon Games Mike Frazzini says firm is more focused on community when developing new Lumberyard engine
Read More »Super Evil Megacorp teams up with Twitch to promote Vainglory as an eSport
Three-year multi-million deal will see live streaming platform handle merchandise and sponsorship for developer
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