Why Didn’t I Think of That???

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Two Teenage Boys Playing Video GamesDo you “Twitch”? For those non-gamers out there, Twitch.tv is a website that provides live streaming of people playing video games.

Sound crazy? Check out these crazy numbers

  • The site generates 55 million regular visitors from around the world each month.
  • Those people watch 16 billion minutes of its videos.

More than 1.1 million people broadcast their gaming activity to the service.

Those are the kinds of numbers that attract attention from the big boys and it launched a bidding war with Amazon prevailing, dishing out a cool $970 million in cash for the right to join the game.

Want more numbers?

  • Twitch had 43 percent of the live video streaming traffic by volume in a given week, more than ESPN’s website, MLB.com, CNN.
  • Last year during a championship for the game “League of Legends”, 32 million people were reportedly watching live. That’s more than the audience for the finales of Breaking Bad, 24 and The Sopranos combined.