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The three streamers together, More Than 21 million subscribers on YouTube -

YouTube has signed deals with three of the biggest gaming stars in an effort to increase your presence in the live streaming space.

Rachell "Valkyrae" Hofstetter, Elliott "Muselk" Watkins and the Lannan "LazarBeam" Eacott exclusively for the screen, the your games on the Google platform.

they were all previously active, Amazon's rival service, Twitch.

"YouTube", told More Than 200 million users watched video-game-themed content on the platform Every Day .

"Most People think of the streaming wars, in terms of Netflix and its competitors, but it is also the to play in gaming," said, Going to Hershey, chief executive of Round Hill Investments .

Elliott "Muselk" Watkins has More Than eight million subscribers on YouTube

The first of four platforms for streaming games:

YouTube has not released how much each star is paid to devote himself to her service. Combined the three players have More Than 21 million subscribers.

"YouTube" head of gaming, Ryan Wyat said: "Gaming on YouTube, the best of the year, just had his [and] 2020 is ready, even better than 2019. "

players on the service to earn money through subscriptions and donations from their fans, as well as advertising. YouTube takes a cut of each.

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Twitch remains the dominant force in the live-Streaming gaming, accounting for almost two-thirds of The Hours spent watching the activity. But it has lost other talent in the last few months.

Australian Lannan "LazarBeam" Eacott withdraw from Twitch as part of The Deal

especially the gamer Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja , has signed a deal to leave Twitch in August 2019, and joined Microsoft mixer, a much smaller service.

Ninja - who rose to fame for playing Fortnite - had 14. 7 million followers on Twitch before he jumped ship.

"Almost every week we see a new content Creator to sign a multi-million-dollar deal for the streaming," said Mr. Hershey.

Facebook is also working in this field. It Facebook Gaming in the year 2018 was launched to allow users to stream their games to other users of the Social Network .

YouTube-new recruits

LazarBeam has signed the largest following of the three players from YouTube.

He has been 12. 3 million followers on YouTube. In the year 2019, his channel, his eighth, was considered to be the most.

The Australian joined YouTube five years ago, but saw its number of subscribers rise in the year 2018, when he began to videos of themselves Fortnite : Battle Royale play.

American Valkyrae had almost a million followers on Twitch, where you can also best known for playing Fortnite .

Rachell Hofstetter says she wants to expand the content-type makes

you said you planned to "venture into other areas of content and grow my brand even further".

Muselk, another Australian, began the gaming videos while studying for a law degree.

He has eight million YouTube subscribers and is the co-owner of click-Management - a talent Agency for digital game development.

"Live-streaming is to grow an incredible Chance to my channel, as well as more meaningful interaction with my audience," he said.

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Source of news: bbc.com