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Twitch is a video live streaming service design for gamers. On Twitch, streamers can share their gaming sessions via video streaming and gain subscribers and receive donations from their audience. Twitch is primarily focused on video game live streaming and eSports, but also provides sections for general streaming and real-life events. Since 2014, Twitch is now owned and operated by Amazon.

YouTube Gaming is a standalone applications built specifically for game streaming.

Mixer brings you the next generation in live streaming. With Mixer gamers can live stream their gaming sessions and earn money doing so. The Mixer platform allows streamers to monetize their audience via in-platform currency that can be spent on donations or channel subscriptions. Mixer was designed with an emphasis on interactivity, with low stream latency and platform features that allows viewers to perform actions that can influence a stream.

Epic Games Store is marketplace for digital games. The Epic Game Store is availible via the browser or within the Epic Games launcher. Developers who release games within the store receive 88% of the revenue generated from the game, which is drastically better than other stores.  This help developers sustain their business model, and ultimatley create more or better games. 

Stadia is a subscription-based gaming platform that allows you to play all titles in their library of games. Stadia is developed by Google and allows you play games instantly with one click of a button. To be able to play games on Stadia you need to have Stadia Controller and subscription to the service Stadia Pro. No purchase of console is required since Stadia streams all games to you from the cloud.

An open indie game marketplace that makes it simple to find, download and distribute indie games online. With itch.io, gamers can choose from over 100,000 titles uploaded by indie developers from all across the globe. As a developer you can use itch.io to create a page for your game, where you can distribute your game and provide gamers with the latest news and media surrounding the game an its releases.