Dev Info: Amazon wins Google, $1 billion acquisition of twitch

Abstract:AmazonThird parties put in and beat Google and successfully acquired twitch with a total amount of more than $1 billion, including $0.97 billion in cash and other shares.

Twitch is a real-time streaming video platform for video games, jointly created by Justin Kan and Emmett shear. It is an independent operating site of Justin. TV that focuses on game-related content. It is said that it had 50 million independent visitors in March, and twitch said that 58% of users spent more than 20 hours a week.

A message was sent out last month,GoogleThe video stream website twitch may be purchased at a price of $1 billion, but it seems that Google is not talking about Twitch, making Amazon take the lead. It is understood that this is the largest scale completed by AmazonAcquisition.

The streaming media of video games on twitch covers a wide range of games, covering almost all types of games on the market. It is the leader in the current game streaming media video website. Due to the wide variety of games on twitch, a variety of game experts have been integrated. Most users are young people. They record their own game videos and place them on twitch, in this way, other people will come to watch the interaction.

Twitch CEO Bezos said, "Live Broadcast and watchingGamesLive broadcasting is already a global phenomenon. Twitch gathers tens of millions of people every month ." This large number of users is probably one of the reasons for Amazon's acquisition. In addition, Twitch brings together a large number of young users, and Amazon must have targeted its advertising potential. However, it is also reported that Amazon may integrate twitch into its prime service in the future. For example, a Member can watch twitch's paid videos for free.

The reason behind the huge acquisition amount is that the acquired party can bring enough benefits to itself. The huge number of users of twitch is enough to prove that it is worth being acquired. Some people are happy and sad, and the last small Editor tells you a heavy news. Today, a spokesman for IBM recently announced by email that John Akers, former CEO of the company) he died in Boston last Friday at the age of 79 ......

Dev Info: Amazon wins Google, $1 billion acquisition of twitch