Report: YouTube has just acquired Twitch

19 May 2014

Steve Wright

Variety today reports that Google’s YouTube has reached a deal to acquire the video game streaming site Twitch. Variety cites sources “familiar with the pact” in the report.

Neither Twitch, who were responsible for 1.35% of all of America’s downstream bandwidth in March 2014, nor YouTube made comment on the report.

Variety says the deal with an all-cash offer and should soon be publicly acknowledged by both companies.

Twitch was launched in June 2011 and rose to fame thanks — in part — to streaming integration on both the PS4 and the Xbox One. The company also has deals with industry players like MLG, Joystiq and more.

We’ll have more on this story as it develops.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.