Youtube.com vs Twitch.tv

Youtube, Inc. is an American online video sharing platform that allows users to watch videos posted by other users and upload videos of their own.
Three previous PayPal workers Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created the program in February 2005.  On 9th Of October 2006 Google Officially purchased the site for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now presently works as one of Google's branch. 

YouTube allows all users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to different registered clients. It also offers a wide change of user to created and corporate media videos. Its Available content includes TV show clips, video clips, music recordings, short and documentary movies, sound recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content, for example, blogging video, original short videos, and educative videos. 

Majority of the content on YouTube is uploaded by users, but yet media companies including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material through YouTube as a feature of the YouTube organization program. Unregistered clients can watch, but not upload videos on the site, while registered clients are allowed to upload an unlimited number of videos and add their comment to the videos. Age-limited videos are accessible only to registered clients who declare themselves to be 18 years of age and above.

Twitch is an American video live streaming service operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. Introduced in June 2011 as a side project of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv, the webpage basically focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, "in real life" streams. Content on the site can be viewed either live or through video on interest. 

The popularity of Twitch eclipsed that of its general-interest partner. In October 2013, the site had 45 million unique viewers, and by February 2014, it was considered as the fourth largest source of peak Internet traffic in the United States. Simultaneously, Justin.tv's parent organization was re-branded as Twitch Interactive to address the shift in focus – Justin.tv was closed down in August 2014. That month, the service was acquired by Amazon for US$970 million, which later prompted the introduction of synergies with the company's subscription service Amazon Prime. Twitch acquired Curse in 2016, an operator of online video gaming communities and introduced methods to purchase games through links on streams along with a program allowing streamers to get commissions on the sales of games that they play. 

In late 2013, especially because of increasing viewership, Twitch had issues with lag and low frame rates in Europe. Twitch has consequently added new servers in the region. Also to address these issues, Twitch implemented another video system demonstrated to be more effective than the past system. At first, the new video system was condemned by users since it caused a huge stream delay, interfering with broadcaster-viewer interaction. Twitch staff said that the increased delay was likely temporary and at that time, was an acceptable tradeoff for the decrease in buffering. 

By 2015, Twitch had in excess of 100 million viewers per month. As of 2017, Twitch remained the leading live streaming video service for video games in the US, and had an advantage over YouTube Gaming. As of February 2020, it had 3 million broadcasters monthly and 15 million daily active users, with 1.4 million average simultaneous users. As of May 2018, Twitch had more than 27,000 partner channels.