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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you've had a fantastic Tuesday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. |
0:05.0 | Buckle up, hit that like button, otherwise it will punch you in the throat and let's just jump into it. |
0:10.0 | And the first thing we're going to talk about today is digital entertainment and business news. |
0:14.0 | Because you know, over the last year we've seen the internet personality wars heat up. |
0:17.0 | With large graders getting poached from their normal platforms of choice for exclusive high dollar deals. |
0:22.5 | You know last year we saw Twitch seeing high profile departures of Ninja, Shroud, who then left for Mixer. |
0:27.4 | You know, along with those, we saw other exclusive deals like Twitch locking down Dr. Lupo, Tim the Tapman, lyric, Google and YouTube locking down the likes of courage, typical gamer, Valkyray, and others. Also it hasn't just been big content creators. I mean, earlier this year, Twitch took a huge blow when Activision Blizzard and Google announced a multi-year partnership with YouTube. |
0:44.3 | Making YouTube the exclusive partner for its e-sports league, including Call of Duty League and Overwatch League. |
0:48.3 | That was incredibly notable because exclusive rights to Activision Blizzard events used to be held by Twitch after signing a two-year deal back in 2017. |
0:55.1 | Right, and it was a move so big that it was described |
0:56.9 | by courts as the equivalent of the Super Bowl |
0:58.9 | and the Olympic Games making Fox their exclusive viewing partner |
1:01.4 | for several years, shutting out all other networks. |
1:03.4 | But now, the massive news that we've seen |
1:05.1 | over the last 24 hours is that YouTube's biggest individual |
1:07.5 | creator, PewDiePie, has signed |
1:09.1 | an exclusive live streaming deal with YouTube. Right? |
1:11.6 | In this move, notably coming almost a year after PewDiePie teamed up with D Live, which was a small blockchain-based live streaming |
1:15.6 | live streaming site, but now all this time after, it appears that they were able to lock him down. |
1:19.6 | Now, as far as how much it caused them, financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but |
1:23.6 | in a press release from YouTube, PewDiePie said, YouTube has been my home for over a decade now, |
1:27.5 | and live streaming on the platform feels like a natural fit |
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