Twitch viewership now higher than CNN, New York Times reports

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Following the recent acquisition of popular game streaming site Twitch by Amazon for a reported $970 Million, the New York Times released a report detailing how the site’s peak viewership numbers now rival those of major cable networks. Specifically, Twitch’s daily viewership numbers now peaks at around 700,000 concurrent viewers - CNN, meanwhile, typically carries around 495,000 viewers.

Twitch.tv started back in 2011 as a spinoff from Justin.tv. The site’s popularity is such that in just two years it has doubled its membership rate, according to the Times’ statistics.

Even taken with a grain of salt - viewership statistics can sometimes be hard to accurately measure - the numbers are impressive, though still small when compared to other online video services like Youtube and Netflix. As the Times’ report points out, Twitch’s biggest rival now - at least among TV networks - is MTV, which typically sees around 773,000 viewers. Even then, Twitch’s viewership numbers have peaked at that number twice in this past summer.

How do you feel about Twitch’s popularity? Let us know in the comments.

Peter Yankowski

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Peter Yankowski is a freelance writer and blogger. When he's not getting blasted out of the digital skies by Messerchmitts, or cutting work to carve a twisty New England road, Peter writes about gaming news, history in games, and military geekitude.
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