{"id":8376,"date":"2015-03-25T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:17:47","slug":"youtube-to-relaunch-live-streaming-platform-to-take-on-twitch-in-online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/youtube-to-relaunch-live-streaming-platform-to-take-on-twitch-in-online-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube to Relaunch Live Streaming Platform to Take on Twitch in Online Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is preparing to relaunch their live streaming platform so they can compete head-on with Twitch. <\/p>\n<p>Last year Google tried to buy Twitch before it was eventually acquired by Amazon. <\/p>\n<p>YouTube has had a streaming platform for some time, but their technology has been a long way behind Twitch and they have struggled to gain traction. However, if they were to get the technology up to speed and integrated with the largest video platform in the world and then offer Google&#8217;s world beating advertising platform, is has to be a win.. right? <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/YouTube-Tomorrowland-LIVE-Stand-BY-600x388.jpg\" alt=\"youtube live streaming platform to take on twitch\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8377 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/YouTube-Tomorrowland-LIVE-Stand-BY-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/YouTube-Tomorrowland-LIVE-Stand-BY-600x388-577x373.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is preparing to relaunch their live streaming platform so they can compete head-on with Twitch. 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However, if they were to get the technology up to speed and integrated with the largest video platform in the world and then offer Google&#8217;s world beating advertising platform, is has to be a win.. right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[463,438,4057,28,4807,758,70],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>YouTube to Relaunch Live Streaming Platform to Take on Twitch in Online Gaming - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/youtube-to-relaunch-live-streaming-platform-to-take-on-twitch-in-online-gaming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"YouTube to Relaunch Live Streaming Platform to Take on Twitch in Online Gaming - RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"YouTube is preparing to relaunch their live streaming platform so they can compete head-on with Twitch. 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