The Overwatch League World Championships, shown here from last fall, will now be on YouTube. Carlton Beener/Blizzard EntertainmentActivision Blizzard announced this afternoon that it will livestream esports contests exclusively on Google’s YouTube platform, including recordings, and that Google Cloud infrastructure would support the games’ back end needs. Overwatch League live streams will now be exclusively on YouTube, as will Call of Duty League live streams, Hearthstone contests, archives of those and other esports events, and special events — and only outside of China. “However, esports events are often responsible for the biggest audiences, with the two most watched channels on Twitch in 2019 being Riot Games and Overwatch League. The Overwatch League season starts on February 8.

Source: Forbes January 24, 2020 21:46 UTC