Media Experiment: YouTube Live Stream vs Twitch.Tv

Apisit Chatarsa
Media Ethnography
Published in
2 min readFeb 27, 2017

I have posted 4 pictures above from streamers playing League of Legends. Two of the pictures come from streamers that broadcast on Twitch and the other two pictures come from YouTube streamers. All the streamers had at least 1,000 viewers at the time the photos were taken. Try and guess which picture is of a YouTube streamer and which one is from Twitch.

Analysis: (answer’s below)

This relates to my project because I wanted to analyze the difference between streamers of different platforms and if creativity plays a role with screen layout. The truth is that it is almost impossible to tell which streamer was from YouTube and which was from Twitch. One big detail I did notice was that the Twitch streamers included advertising while the YouTubers did not. But I now wonder if creativity has a larger role within the layout of a screen.

Picture 1: https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=_tkYA3yjCT8

Picture 2: https://www.twitch.tv/theokoles

Picture 3: https://www.twitch.tv/yoda

Picture 4: https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=8t3SvY8Z1H0

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