YouTube announces it will shut down its standalone Gaming app and launches a new YouTube Gaming destination at youtube.com/gaming, first coming to the US
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Game broadcasting platform Caffeine, founded by two ex-Apple designers, raised $46M across two rounds led by Greylock in 2016 and a16z in 2017
A team of ex-Apple engineers and execs is taking on Amazon-owned Twitch and Google's YouTube Gaming with today's official launch of a new social broadcasting platform, Caffeine.
YouTube discontinues paid channels initiative and makes $4.99 sponsorship model available to all YouTube Gaming creators and some others via main YouTube app
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Microsoft rebrands Beam as Mixer, adds mobile live streaming, and “co-streaming” to enable four gamers to combine their live streams in a split-screen view
- Google's YouTube Gaming app has had mobile game streaming since 2015, and now Microsoft's competing app is getting that feature.
YouTube Gaming expands to several new markets, adds 60fps playback, DVR mode, and pop-out player support to Android
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
YouTube Gaming expands to several new markets, adds 60fps playback, DVR mode, and pop-out player support to Android
YouTube Gaming expands to new markets, improves its browsing and viewing experience on mobile — YouTube Gaming, the video network's dedicated application for streaming …
YouTube Gaming adds ability to broadcast gameplay and facecam video from Android and launches $4 monthly sponsorships, but ads remain
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming: effective for finding and viewing YouTube's existing gaming content, but it must attract big live audiences to compete with Twitch
YouTube Gaming is a great reminder of everything YouTube already does — YouTube is already a big player in live video.
YouTube Gaming launches Wednesday on iOS, Android, and web to compete with Twitch
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica :
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming—Google built itself a Twitch killer
A slick interface, huge user base, and tons of content should have Twitch worried. — NEW YORK—YouTube Gaming is coming! YouTube's Twitch Killer was announced on Friday, so we stopped by the YouTube...