I think this would be a good starting point... http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082115/how-twitchtv-works-and-its-business-model.asp
Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net > From: "That One Guy /sarcasm" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 11:54:47 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] explain Twitch > my niece does twitch streaming, starts at like 10pm and goes til like 9 am. > she > is poor, so i dont think its about the money, but it does use all the > available > bandwidth, so i have her on a 2mb queue upload, she never complains > On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Jaime Solorza < losguyswirel...@gmail.com > > wrote: >> my son developed a nervous twitch when he played Nintendo as a kid.. .I put >> station away for years and it went away. Now as a father of four, he started >> to >> play with them on PS... Twitch came back so he stopped. Watching his kids for >> symptoms..... >> On Dec 4, 2016 9:39 AM, "Ken Hohhof" < af...@kwisp.com > wrote: >>> I was born without the gaming gene, so can someone explain Twitch to me? >>> I have a customer spending a lot of money (now that harvest is over) for a >>> speed >>> tier with 5 Mbps of upstream so he can broadcast. Which I see he does for 12 >>> hours straight. >>> What is the appeal? Fun? Fame? Or profit? Does this bring in advertising >>> money? >>> Enough to make it worthwhile? >>> And how does someone stream their game play for 12 hours straight? Astronaut >>> diapers? Lots of Mountain Dew and Doritos? Or do they get breaks? > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as > part > of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
