{"id":62531,"date":"2019-03-28T03:09:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/amazons-twitch-launches-squad-stream-feature-to-let-up-to-4-streamers-play-together\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T03:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:09:32","slug":"amazons-twitch-launches-squad-stream-feature-to-let-up-to-4-streamers-play-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/amazons-twitch-launches-squad-stream-feature-to-let-up-to-4-streamers-play-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Twitch launches Squad Stream feature to let up to 4 streamers play together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Up to four game streamers on Twitch can now broadcast their points of view\u00a0within the same window thanks to a new feature from the Amazon-owned streaming leader.<\/p>\n

First announced at TwitchCon last year<\/a>, the highly sought-after feature among the Twitch audience known as Squad Stream is available now to the site\u2019s Partners<\/a>. The feature is a good way for audiences to see multiple angles of a battle royale game like Fortnite or follow along as streamers team up in cooperative games.<\/p>\n

The feature is similar to one that Microsoft\u2019s game streaming service Mixer launched in 2017<\/a>. Co-streaming, as Mixer calls it, was part of a series of updates that came when the service formally known as Beam was rebranded after Microsoft acquired it.<\/p>\n

Amazon bought Twitch in 2014<\/a> for $970 million. It is the dominant outlet for game streaming \u2014 the growing entertainment form where audiences watch gamers play their favorite titles \u2014 with 15 million daily visitors and 2.2 million broadcasters on its platform, according to Twitch\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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(GeekWire File Photo) Up to four game streamers on Twitch can now broadcast their points of view\u00a0within the same window thanks to a new feature from the Amazon-owned streaming leader. First announced at TwitchCon last year, the highly sought-after feature among the Twitch audience known as Squad Stream is available now to the site\u2019s Partners…. Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t