Why is Twitch Falling Behind YouTube?
An episode of the Coding With Strangers podcast, hosted by Coding With Strangers, titled "Why is Twitch Falling Behind YouTube?" was published on July 31, 2024 and runs 25 minutes.
July 31, 2024 ·25m · Coding With Strangers
Summary
Hey Strangers, #Youtube #twitch #streamer Amazon bought Twitch, the livestreaming platform, 10 years ago, with the hopes it would be buying the next YouTube or Instagram — an up-and-coming media app that would explode in popularity and profit when hooked to a Big Tech platform. Instead, The Wall Street Journal reports, Twitch has fizzled: It's losing money on annual revenue of $2 billion — a nothingburger by Amazon's standards — and usage seems stalled. This year, the company reportedly cut a third of Twitch's staff, and there's worry about its place in Amazon at a time when CEO Andy Jassy is looking to tighten the company's focus. ======================================= My other podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw ************************************************** Something Strange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s ************************************************** article links: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-amazon-livestream-disappointment-competition-tiktok-youtube-2024-7 https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/29/24207119/twitch-tiktok-feed-app-update https://www.dexerto.com/twitch/twitch-viewer-claims-gifting-subs-tore-apart-his-life-with-50k-debt-2840533/ ====================================== Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discord https://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxq TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoder Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@codingwithstrangers Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangers Twitter https://twitter.com/strangestcoder merch Support CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merch Github Follow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangers Tips https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tip Patreon patreon.com/TheStrangers Timeline 00:00 intro 00:36 What Talking We Talking About 04:57 Article 19:27 My Thoughts 24:10 outro anything else? Take Care --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
Episode Description
Hey Strangers, #Youtube #twitch #streamer Amazon bought Twitch, the livestreaming platform, 10 years ago, with the hopes it would be buying the next YouTube or Instagram — an up-and-coming media app that would explode in popularity and profit when hooked to a Big Tech platform. Instead, The Wall Street Journal reports, Twitch has fizzled: It's losing money on annual revenue of $2 billion — a nothingburger by Amazon's standards — and usage seems stalled. This year, the company reportedly cut a third of Twitch's staff, and there's worry about its place in Amazon at a time when CEO Andy Jassy is looking to tighten the company's focus. ======================================= My other podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw ************************************************** Something Strange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s ************************************************** article links: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-amazon-livestream-disappointment-competition-tiktok-youtube-2024-7 https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/29/24207119/twitch-tiktok-feed-app-update https://www.dexerto.com/twitch/twitch-viewer-claims-gifting-subs-tore-apart-his-life-with-50k-debt-2840533/ ====================================== Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discord https://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxq TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoder Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@codingwithstrangers Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangers Twitter https://twitter.com/strangestcoder merch Support CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merch Github Follow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangers Tips https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tip Patreon patreon.com/TheStrangers Timeline 00:00 intro 00:36 What Talking We Talking About 04:57 Article 19:27 My Thoughts 24:10 outro anything else? Take Care --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
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