
Late in 2014, Amazon purchased Twitch.TV for $970 million, winning a bidding war with Google.
Founded in 2011, Twitch.TV was established for gamers – gamers who wanted to livestream their gaming activities, by creating channels on Twitch and streaming videos of themselves playing in real time.
It was actually a spin-off of Justin.TV which had been created long before the current disruptors, Periscope and Meerkat.
(This is what Twitch.TV does, of course)
If you allow others to stream, will you charge them to do that or will you give it free of charge and earn money in other ways?
You have to make these decisions upfront because they will impact on how you’ll make a streaming website and how you’ll provide for scaling later on if you choose to begin only with you streaming.







Music streaming provider Spotify has debuted a fresh Family Plan, available globally – excluding Canada – in a bid to lure new users to the service ahead of summer.
The deal, which still includes separate accounts, personal playlists and recommendations in addition to offline listening, is now priced at US$14.99 a month (or local pricing) and also includes the ability to add more family members to the same plan.
Capped to six people maximum, the offer is in direct competition to Apple Music’s own family plan, and will allow each user access to Spotify’s roster of over 30 million songs by default, for the flat rate per month and payable on just one single bill.
Available immediately, users who choose to upgrade new family members to Premium accounts from Spotify, will see the new cost applied automatically from their next payment date.
More information is available at Spotify.com.