{"id":12412,"date":"2014-05-18T16:15:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/?p=12412"},"modified":"2014-05-18T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:15:39","slug":"youtube-may-buy-twitch-tv-for-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=12412","title":{"rendered":"[Rumor] Youtube May Buy Twitch.tv for $1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/twitch1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8371\" src=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/twitch1.png\" alt=\"twitchtvlogo\" width=\"371\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/digital\/news\/youtube-to-acquire-videogame-streaming-service-twitch-for-1-billion-sources-1201185204\/\">Sources at <em>Variety<\/em> have reported<\/a> that there is a deal in the works that may end with Youtube acquiring the rapidly growing streaming service, Twitch.tv for an estimated $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to be officially announced &#8220;imminently,&#8221; and if finalized, would make Youtube the largest user-streaming service on the Internet. \u00a0In March,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/digital\/news\/netflix-youtube-bandwidth-usage-1201179643\/\">a study showed<\/a>\u00a0that Twitch even outranked HBO Go, coming in with 1.35% of total Internet bandwith usage.<\/p>\n<p>We will keep our eyes on the situation, and report as more information becomes available, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/digital\/news\/youtube-to-acquire-videogame-streaming-service-twitch-for-1-billion-sources-1201185204\/\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSources at Variety have reported that there is a deal in the works that may end with Youtube acquiring the&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=12412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo; Youtube May Buy Twitch.tv for $1 Billion&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[563,741,797],"class_list":["post-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videogames-2","tag-purchase","tag-twitch","tag-youtube","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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