Gear on Amazon: This panel highlights Partners and Affiliates’ favorite products on Amazon, making it easy for viewers to find and purchase them.Perks, get class info, and more – all seamlessly incorporated into the stream. Destiny Armory Overlay by Grab Games: Dive into Destiny gear, view details on.Here’s a list of the extensions Twitch announced today: The company has grown from 200 employees at the time of Amazon’s acquisition to 1,200 today. Twitch, acquired by Amazon in 2014 for nearly $1 billion, is traditionally known for its game streaming platform - there were 2.2 million Twitch streamers in 2016 - but the company is also expanding into other verticals like arts, cooking, vlogging, and more. Attendees ranged from developers to broadcasters to other people working in the gaming industry. They can select different products to promote from the Amazon catalog and create a “Gear on Amazon” list from their Twitch dashboard alongside other extensions.Īt the launch event in Seattle - where the big PAX gaming convention is being held in town this weekend - there were plenty of Twitch employees who traveled to the event. “Gear on Amazon” is an extension that lets streamers surface Amazon products on their stream and earn commission through Amazon’s affiliate program. Twitch Extensions also offers a new way for developers and streamers to make money. Kathy Astromoff, Twitch’s head of developer platform. “T oday is a watershed moment in how developers, streamers, and Twitch can build our shared community together,” she said. Kathy Astromoff, head of Twitch’s developer platform and a game industry veteran, said she’s never been as excited for a reveal event than Thursday. There are also extensions for specific games, like “MasterOverwatch by Master Network,” an on-screen statistics overlay for Overwatch broadcasters. Polls, virtual pets, interactive game information, and other overlays can also now be added.
They range from “Leaderboard by Muxy,” which automatically displays a channel’s top five cheerers, to “Schedule by Layer One,’ which shows viewers scheduled Twitch events. There are more than 20 available extensions “coming soon,” Twitch said today.
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