YouTube reigns the realm of recorded video made by people like you, but when everyday folks want to broadcast what’s going on right now, they wander elsewhere. That has allowed an underdog like Twitch, the gaming video website bought by Amazon a year ago for $970 million, to grow into the big boss in an explosion of video games as spectator sport. YouTube Gaming is Google’s attempt to snatch away that prize, and, in doing so, it may make live streaming a bigger part of everyone’s world.
Source: Will gaming breathe life into live-streaming YouTube? – CNET