YouTube v Twitch: battling for viewers, but both can grow

YouTube beefed up its live streaming and Amazon's Twitch added video uploads, but it's their gaming audiences that will define which advances fastest

Soon, ridiculing the idea of watching other people play video games will seem ridiculous in itself. People do, and in increasingly large numbers online.

YouTube has "hundreds of millions" of people watching "billions of hours" of gaming videos every month, with its top 100 games channels generating 7.3bn video views in July 2015 alone.