And live video streaming vendor Justin.tv witnessed e-sports video streaming grow at such a rapid rate that they dedicated an entire website to it. In June 2011, they launched TwitchTV after video game streaming reached around 3.2million monthly unique views on its main website. TwitchTV now engages over 12 million unique viewers each month. Also it has had a steady month over month growth rate of 11 percent since it was launched. Besides that, TwitchTV has over 1,000 premium partners. It has also received over 80,000 downloads of its iPhone mobile app in less than a month of the app's launch. Between October 10th and October 16th the website received massive traffic as can be seen from the following figures:

Total Hours Watched: 6,737,250

Weekly Unique Viewers: 4,214,057

Total Hours Watched per Unique Viewer: 1.6

Weekly Unique Chatters: 309,220

Peak Concurrent Viewers on a Single Stream: 125,862

Peak Concurrent Viewers on all Gaming Content: 165,250

Video Game Streaming: Popular Genres

Here are some of the most popular genres in live online video game streaming:

Adventure (Assassin's Creed II, Lego, Lost Planet)
Strategy (StarCraft II, Total War, Worms)
Sport Games (FIFA, NBA 2K10, MLB 2K10)
Shooter (Modern Warfare 3, Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2)
Role-Playing (Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age)
Racing (Need for Speed: The Run Playthrough Part 1!, GP2 Asia Series 2011)
Simulation (The Sims)
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game - MMORPG (World of Warcraft, Hydra 9)

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