Twitch: Examining the ‘magic’ that compelled viewers watch 460K years worth of video last year

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Twitch has an average 1.7 million broadcasters streaming each month and in 2015 Twitch viewers watched more than 459,000 years worth of video collectively. That's a lot. On this week's episode of Generation App, we discuss what makes the Amazon-owned streaming site so popular.

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