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QUIBI JUMPS INTO THE STREAMING GAME app, YouTube channels would be better places for gamers and fans to engage. “After all, YouTube is where more than 200 million gamers come to engage with your favourite games and creators every day, watching over 50 billion hours of gaming content in the last 12 months alone”. The YouTube Gaming app will go dark in March 2019. YouTube is shutting down its gaming app and is porting the features over to a new online gaming channel. At the new page fans and players can watch personalised gaming videos, including streamed games and contributions from channel subscriptions. The company launched YouTube Gaming in 2015 as a standalone app for gamers. YouTube Gaming included features like Game Pages for better discoverability, Super Chat and Channel Memberships to help fans show support for their favourite creators, as well as a live-streaming platform based on gaming community feedback. In a blog post, the company said that, despite the success of the YouTube Gaming
Former Disney boss Jeffrey Katzenberg and ex-Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman have dubbed their new online video start-up Quibi (short for “quick bites”) and are betting $1 billion that audiences are hungry for high-quality, short-form content. Previously dubbed NewTV, the new mobile-first company is developing series with with high-profile content creators such as Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, Jason Blum (so horror is definitely high on the company’s priority list) and Antoine Fuqua. The platform is also in talks with the likes of Justin Timberlake and basketball star Kobe Bryant. Quibi aims to launch in late 2019 with a monthly subscription fee of around $5.
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