Episode Synopsis "Twitch: Examining the ‘magic’ that compelled viewers watch 460K years worth of video last year"

Twitch has an average 1.7 million broadcasters streaming each month and in 2015 Twitch viewers watched more than 459,000 years worth of video collectively. That's a lot. On this week's episode of Generation App, we discuss what makes the Amazon-owned streaming site so popular.

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