Twitch wants to become more than just a live streaming service

Now that YouTube is encroaching on Twitch’s territory with YouTube Gaming, it’s the perfect time for Twitch to do the same to YouTube. Twitch CEO Emmit Shear has announced that, starting sometime next year, Twitch broadcasters will be given the ability to upload pre-recorded videos, which is more or less what YouTube has always done. It’ll be interesting to see which company is more successful, the video-sharing service that’s delving into live streaming or the live streaming service that’s delving into video-sharing.