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Twitch is a
live streaming
video
, including broadcasts of
competitions, in addition to creative content, "
" streams, and more recently, music broadcasts. Content on the site can either be viewed live or via
.
The popularity of Twitch would eclipse that of its general-interest counterpart; in October 2013, the website had 45 million unique viewers,
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and by February 2014, it was considered the fourth largest source of peak Internet traffic in the United States. At the same time, Justin.tv's parent company was re-branded as Twitch Interactive to represent the shift in focus – Justin.tv was shut down in August 2014. That month, the service was acquired by Amazon for
970 million, which later led to the introduction of synergies with the company's subscription service
. Twitch later acquired
, an operator of online video gaming communities, and introduced means to purchase games through links on streams, along with a program allowing streamers to receive
on the sales of games that they play.
In 2015, Twitch announced it had more than 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million visitors per month
platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of
Introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform,
, the site primarily focuses on
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