Reports this weekend claimed that YouTube is on the verge of buying games streaming service Twitch for $1bn
What is Twitch? It’s essentially the YouTube for live gaming: people broadcast themselves playing and/or talking about games while other people watch them (either live or via archived footage) while chatting about it.
Twitch more than doubled its monthly audience from 20m people at the end of 2012 to 45m at the end of 2013