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Spencer SnowEECS 441 Company Presentation

25th November 2013

Products• Livestreams of popular games

• Channel subscriptions

History of Company

• Began in 2007 as Justin.tv• Rebranded for gaming and rereleased in 2011• Major competitor Own3d.tv failed in January 2013

Financial Information

• $8 million in seed funding (2007)• $15 million series B funding (2012) Bessemer Venture Partners• $20 million series C funding (2013) Thrive, WestSummit, Take-Two

What's Hot?

• Over 35 million unique viewers per month• Average viewer watches 1.5 hours per day• 600,000 unique broadcasters• 3500 Twitch Partners• Integration with consoles and games

Secret Sauce

• Ability for players to support themselves • Monopoly on content• Infrastructure• Interactivity and chat

Competition

• Shut down in January • Not game focused• Alexa rank 880

• Not game focused• Alexa rank 1309

• Alexa rank 390

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Prediction

• Success!