People may not realize it because of its recent surge in popularity, but live streaming has been around for a while now. In fact, one of the earliest examples of this is dates back to 1997. Unfortunately the technology then wasn’t exactly where it needed to be for it to be anything notable. If we fast forward to 2006, technology was catching up with the idea, and a website named Justin.tv was launched where anyone could signup to broadcast themselves online. This usually manifested in people broadcasting themselves playing video games online, especially with the popularity of gaming videos on YouTube (which was founded a year prior in 2005) people were glued to their screens trying to catch their favourite online personalities play their favourite games. This isn’t to say other content wasn’t popular. Like with YouTube, you could catch people streaming themselves doing just about anything! This is even more prevalent today where you can catch anything from dancing to blacksmithing to live radio shows on most platforms. It just so happened that at the time the people who spent their time on computers long enough to stumble across these streaming services were also the ones spending a lot of time on video games; who would have thought, right?
Now if we look at the past five years, more live streaming services have popped up now than ever before! In 2014 Justin.tv was bought by Amazon and was rebranded as Twitch.tv, the world’s most popular live streaming service to date. YouTube and Facebook have both also added the ability to livestream off of their sites, and Microsoft bought a lesser known site called Beam and rebranded it to Mixer. These are only few of the options out there currently, but they’re definitely the more widely known and popular methods people have been using to throw themselves up online for the masses to consume.
So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re online and you stumble across a stream, or maybe there’s another story in the news about a 15-year-old gamer winning millions at a tournament; there’s a little more context to the journey that made these opportunities possible!
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Streaming games are very popular now, they are often watched by many thousands of people. That’s why, for example, I can say that I did it myself. At first it was very difficult because I did not know how and where to start. Then luckily I got help and tips that here https://livestream.studio/games/ can help with this case. So I recommend to look into it and go to them. Good luck and success to everyone.
Streaming games are very popular now, they are often watched by many thousands of people. That’s why, for example, I can say that I did it myself. At first it was very difficult because I did not know how and where to start. Then luckily I got help and tips that here https://livestream.studio/games/ can help with this case. So I recommend to look into it and go to them. Good luck and success to everyone.