How does a Twitch streamer build up his or her following? Why?
It wasn’t all that long ago that when a new video game was released, the only way to check it out was by watching over the shoulders of friends or family who had already managed to get their hands on it. These days, the process of watching a new game in action has become a lot simpler thanks to the prevalence of online videos and live streaming platforms like Twitch. Twitch is the world’s largest online video game streaming platform. Within its first month of launch Twitch received 8 million unique visitors, and today the platform accounts for an astonishing 43% of all revenue generated by video gaming video content. Twitch even accounts for almost as much peak traffic as behemoths like Netflix and Google. It’s no wonder Amazon shelled out $970 million to purchase the streaming platform back in 2014. Twitch Homepage It should probably now go without saying that Twitch has become an outstanding place for streamers to find an audience and generate some revenue. Twitch streamers can m...
