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.
