Twitch Company Preso

1. Yashan Thakkar (yashan)

2. Problem
● Gamers are social
● eSports needs a
platform

6. Music
Interactive Music
Concert Like Experience
Requests

7. Financials

8. Business Model
● Advertisements
● Subscriptions and Cheering
● Twitch Prime

9. 51% of Revenue from Ads

10. Subscriptions
Price: $5

11. Cheering
Revenue in Millions

12. Twitch Prime
Free With Amazon Prime
$10 per month or $100 per year
Cheering, Subscriptions, and Twitch
Prime account for 49% of Revenue

13. Financial History
● Series A: $8m with
Justin.TV in 2007
● Series B: $15m by
Bessemer Venture
Partners in 2012
● Series C: $20m by
Thrive Capital 2013

14. Amazon Buys Twitch for $970 Million

17. Number of Simultaneous Viewers Over the Past Week

18. Hours of eSports Watched in August 2017

19. Other Statistics in 2017
● 106 minutes watched per person per day
● 1,132 years, 335 days of content watched this week
● 1.8% of all internet traffic
● 15 Million daily active users

20. Early History
● Justin.tv launched in
2007 by Justin Kan and
Emmett Shear
● Launch Twitch.TV in
2011
● Shut down Justin.TV to
focus on Twitch in 2014

21. Growth History
● Twitch Plays Pokemon
(2014)
● Twitch Con (2015)
● E-League CSGO Major
(2017) has a million
simultaneous viewers

22. Expansion
History
● Launch Social Eating
in June 2016
● Launch IRL and Music
streaming in
December 2016
● Stream first football
game December 7,
2017

23. Secret Sauce
● Revenue Splits that attract Streamers
● Hardcore fanbase
● Ties with eSports Industry

24. Revenue Split
● 49% of revenue comes
from cheering,
subscriptions, and
Twitch Prime.
● Subscriptions and
cheering is split 50/50
with content creators
● Attracts more streamers
which attracts more
viewers

25. Fanbase
● Twitch creates a community feel
when in streamers chat rooms
● Interaction provides a unique viewing
experience
● Nearly half of all users watch more
than 20 hrs a week

26. Competition
Twitch YouTube Gaming
Average Number of
Simultaneous Viewers
>700,000 Users >300,000 Users
Channel Specific Emotes
eSports ecosystem
Allows Gambling

27. Number of
Simultaneous Streamers
in 2017

28. Average Number
of Simultaneous
Viewers
Data taken from
Q3 of 2017

29. Gambling
Using skins instead of $$$
Ethic Issues with Gambling
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-virtual-guns-counterstrike-gambling/

30. Prediction
● Backed by Amazon (AWS)
● Rise of eSports/Gaming industry
● New markets with music and irl
streaming

31. Questions?
Uniquename: yashan

32. References
https://www.twitch.tv/p/about
http://mashable.com/2017/01/30/twitch-viewer-record/#yyyr5wdlBkq9
https://sullygnome.com/7
https://www.statista.com/statistics/761122/average-number-viewers-on-youtube-gaming-live-and-twitch/
https://venturebeat.com/2016/09/30/twitch-breaks-records-in-2016-with-average-simultaneous-viewership-reaching-
622000/
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/11/twitch-users-watched-459366-years-worth-of-content-in-2015/
https://socialblade.com/twitch/
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-970-million-purchase-of-twitch-makes-so-much-sense-now-its-all-about-the-
cloud-2016-3
https://twitter.com/Twitch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

33. References cont.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-virtual-guns-counterstrike-gambling/
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-07-09-twitch-outranks-youtube-in-usd3-8bn-gaming-video-market-superdata
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/twitch-ranked-4th-in-peak-internet-traffic-ahead-of-valve-facebook-hulu/1100-
6417621/
https://www.twitchtools.com/stats?type=twitch&method=week
https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/30/4719766/twitch-raises-20-million-esports-market-booming
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2014/01/16/twitch-streaming-video-audience-growth/#79fbb803797d
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/30/twitchs-concurrent-streamers-grew-67-in-q3-as-youtube-gaming-declined/
https://blog.streamlabs.com/streamlabs-live-streaming-report-q217-53-growth-100m-twitch-youtube-crushing-it-
1b9048efb4e2
http://hackingrevenue.com/revenue/revenue-spotlight-twitch-tv/
https://blog.twitch.tv/https-blog-twitch-tv-game-creator-success-on-twitch-hard-numbers-688154815817