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Tech layoffs: Amazon lays off hundreds from Twitch and Prime Video

  By Associated Press and Bobbie Gossage January 10, 2024 Twitch, the video game streaming platform acquired by Amazon a decade ago for close to $1 billion, is laying off more than 500 employees as the company tries to turn the tremendously expensive division profitable. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy in an email to employees said that even … Continue reading Tech layoffs: Amazon lays off hundreds from Twitch and Prime Video

New OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear’s time at Twitch gives clues to the future of the AI giant

  By Chris Stokel-Walker November 20, 2023 One of the most tumultuous four-day spans in Silicon Valley history has finally concluded (for now at least), and in the end we’re left with massive changes at both OpenAI and Microsoft—and massive ramifications for the wider world of artificial intelligence.  Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO summarily fired … Continue reading New OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear’s time at Twitch gives clues to the future of the AI giant

Twitch is finally adding Stories and a feed for discovering new streamers to watch

Even LinkedIn has Stories now   Karissa Bell   @karissabe LinkedIn is the latest platform to embrace the disappearing Stories format. The professional networking site unveiled its latest redesign that makes the company’s months-long experiment with LinkedIn Stories official. Beginning today, the company is rolling out the feature to all its users in the US … Continue reading Twitch is finally adding Stories and a feed for discovering new streamers to watch

Trump Joins Twitch Live-Streaming Platform

Trump Joins Twitch Live-Streaming Platform by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, October 11, 2019 Several weeks after Amazon Twitch launched a campaign that tells the world the platform was designed for live-streaming anything, not just gaming, President Donald Trump launched a channel on the platform. The president used the platform and public channel for the first time during … Continue reading Trump Joins Twitch Live-Streaming Platform

Amazon’s Twitch Offers Original Content An Avenue To Online Video Advertising

Amazon continues to become an increasingly powerful marketplace as it builds out an advertising platform and home for original content through Twitch — but it’s the possibilities for online video advertising market that stir one Wall Street analyst. Twitch’s average user engagement of 106 minutes of content watched per-user per-day in 2013, and audience segment, … Continue reading Amazon’s Twitch Offers Original Content An Avenue To Online Video Advertising