Gaming for an audience
The social aspect of gaming is gaining importance. Every console now has options to stream your own game play live to friends or to your social media page. Live streaming and simultaneously commenting on the match have become immensely popular thanks to PewDiePie. Up to this day, this Swedish commenter still ranks as the number one YouTube star with the highest number of followers, whilst making millions a year. But also the lionization of Twitch.tv, a live streaming video platform, is pretty astonishing to say the least. In 2015, Twitch announced it had more than 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million visitors per month. It appears Amazon knew what it was doing when purchasing the platform for $970 million in 2014…