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Channels with Peter Kafka

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Back when I first started covering the internet, the idea of broadcasting yourself for hours on end seemed like a pipe dream for weirdos. Now it's how some people make a living. Twitch more or less created live-streaming in the U.S., which is why Amazon bought it for about $1 billion back in 2014. But now there are plenty of places to watch, and create, live streams. How does Twitch fend off competitors? How does it convince its most popular streamers to keep streaming? And how will Amazon eventually make real money from the operation, which is was still in the red a few years ago? Those are all questions I asked Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, at a live taping at South by Southwest. Clancy also got to hear firsthand from Twitch's users and partners in a Q&A session at the end of our chat. Thanks to everyone who came out, and thanks to the folks at the Vox Media podcast network for putting it all together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Channels with Peter Kaufkin, and we're live from the Vox Media podcast stage at South by Southwest presented by SmartSheet I'm here with the Twitch CEO Dan Clancy welcome Dan and and I'll use my radio voice thank you Peter it's great being here it's really super do you have people walking around applauding you all day long no no I can't and it's bright so I can can't see who's there. How much do you pay them? Well, it is expensive, you know. All right. I was going to ask who's a Twitch user in this room, but I know some of them work for you. Anyone who doesn't work for Dan and uses Twitch? There's only two people who work for me here. All right. We're going to start really slow, down. I have an idea who a Twitch user is and who a Twitch creator is, but maybe I'm wrong. So you tell me, who's sort of the archetype, what's the demographic of a Twitch user and a Twitch creator? I know you're gonna tell me it encompasses everyone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's your core user, your, it's interesting. I mean, Twitch, Twitch, of course, started with gaming. Okay. And in fact, when it, you know, broke off from Justin TV, Twitch originally, Justin TV was a general live streaming platform with the idea of, I'll just videotape my life. Yes, they were they were they were. It was like,

2:52.3

oh, this would be cool. It got some traction, but it was still niche. And then when they broke off

2:56.5

for gaming, suddenly Twitch took off. Interestingly, when they started Twitch, they forbid you from

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