After paying a reported $90 million for the rights to stream the first two seasons of the Overwatch League, a new professional esports league that’s mirroring conventional sports with city-based franchises, Twitch announced Week 1 viewership numbers Wednesday and said it’s happy with the results. Twitch’s $90 million bid for the rights marked the biggest […]
Twitch, the Amazon-owned social video service that’s popular among esports fans, is diving headfirst into the world of traditional sports with two major announcements this month that involve the NFL and NBA. On Dec. 7, the service began hosting Thursday Night Football games through twitch.tv/primevideo when the New Orleans Saints played the Atlanta Falcons. Then […]
Twitch has announced that NBA G League games will stream on the social video service that’s better known as a community for esports and gamers. As a research and development arm of the NBA, the NBA G League will bring live sports to Twitch beginning on Friday and enable its players — young NBA hopefuls […]
For 10 years, ESPN and ABC have been putting on special programming to commemorate V Week, a weeklong tribute to the V Foundation, a cancer research organization founded by ESPN in memory of North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano. This, the 11th year of such programming, featured a decidedly contemporary addition. Twitch partnered with […]
Forty-three million unique viewers were reached during the 2016 League of Legends World Championship. Thirty-one million watched game seven of the 2016 NBA Finals — arguably one of the greatest games in league history. There’s no debate over the popularity of esports broadcasts. Just as networks like ESPN have made improvements to broadcasts, it’s important […]
