Now YouTube is tryng to seek influence over Gamers. YouTube is launching a site in an attempt to take on Amazon's Streaming service Twitch which allows gaming fans to interact with live broadcast of others playing games. YouTube owned by Google was last year beaten by Amazon's bid of $970m offer.
In a blog post, YouTube Gaming product manager Alan Joyce said: "On YouTube, gaming has spawned entirely new genres of videos, from let's plays, walkthroughs, and speedruns to cooking and music videos. Now, it's our turn to return the favour with something built just for gamers."
YouTube Gaming will consist of 25,000 individual game portals which bring together all the activity around each title on a single page. YouTube Gaming's launch will initially just be in the US and UK.
Google will be hoping the new services will lure gamers away from rival Twitch which currently dominates the market for live online broadcasting. Around 12 billion hours of live gaming are watched on the site every month.
"YouTube gaming is built from the ground up for gamers, by gamers, " said Wyatt. "No longer is gaming going to be lost in a sea of content. We're unleashing a brand new user experience that puts games front and center, That include live gaming as well."
Mr Joyce said YouTube Gaming would provide an area on YouTube fenced off from the rest, so that "typing 'call' will show you [video game] 'Call of Duty' and not [pop song] 'Call Me Maybe'."
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