Twitch is owned by Amazon (the United States, NASDAQ: AMZN), which acquired the brand on 25 August 2014 for $970 million.[1][2] Twitch was founded in 2011 in San Francisco, California and was independent until 2014.
Evidence: Amazon.com, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-06, SEC EDGAR, 6 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Twitch is the largest live streaming platform for video games, spun out of the general-purpose site Justin.tv in 2011. Amazon acquired it in 2014 for about $970 million, outbidding Google, and it remains the centre of the games streaming economy.
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Amazon is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States, founded in 1994. Brandtree records 11 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: AMZN.
Amazon began selling books online in 1994 and is now among the largest companies in the world. Its 2017 purchase of Whole Foods Market gave it a physical grocery estate, and it has since built its own grocery and household brands sold through its store.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,550 brands that began in the United States. 479 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Twitch is not one of them.
Amazon acquired Twitch for about $970 million in cash, outbidding Google. Live game streaming was then a niche few large companies took seriously, and Twitch remains the centre of that economy a decade later.
The parent company of Twitch is Amazon, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Twitch originated in the United States in 2011 and its owner, Amazon, is also headquartered in the United States.
Amazon completed its acquisition of Twitch on 25 August 2014, after announcing the deal on 25 August 2014. The deal was valued at $970 million.
Twitch was an independent company from its founding in 2011 in San Francisco, California until Amazon acquired it in 2014.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Twitch is still owned by Amazon. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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