DreamHack Renews Partnership with Twitch

DreamHack is proud to renew its broadcast partnership with Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers, to bring high-end esports content to millions of viewers around the globe. Twitch will be the exclusive English language broadcaster of both DreamHack Open and ASUS ROG DreamLeague this year, alongside a lot of other esports content produced by DreamHack.

DreamHack was one of the first esports partners to embrace Twitch, including working with Justin.tv, Twitch’s predecessor. As one of the pioneers, DreamHack used Justin.tv as the official broadcast platform for their esports tournaments back at DreamHack Winter 2009. By renewing the partnership with Twitch, it commemorates a six-year-long partnership with the live streaming platform. The partnership has been extremely successful with DreamHack’s two largest festivals—DreamHack Summer and DreamHack Winter—being two of the most viewed events on Twitch annually.

“We’re thrilled to continue having Twitch as one of our closest allies,” said Marcus Lindmark, CEO of DreamHack AB, Sweden. “2015 will be a fantastic year for DreamHack since we will be introducing many new events, tournaments and formats, all with a live streamed presence on Twitch.”

"DreamHack is an epic event that has amassed an incredible following among the Twitch community," said Stuart Saw, Regional Director, EMEA, Twitch. "Our longstanding partnership is indicative of the appeal of live video game content and testament to the tight bonds we share with our broadcasting partners. It has been a great six years and we look forward to continue working with this iconic festival."

At DreamHack Summer 13-16 June, professional esports players will have the chance to meet Twitch as they host another edition of the popular Twitch Player Lounge. The lounge is where competing players can relax between tournament matches.

ABOUT DREAMHACK
DreamHack is the world's largest computer festival. DreamHack's core and origin is the LAN party, with the two major festivals DreamHack Summer in June and DreamHack Winter in November. The events are a destination for esports, knowledge and creative competitions, music acts, lectures by game developers, Internet & game culture, cosplay, the fair DreamExpo and more. DreamHack is also a production company with a focus on gaming, esports, music and arena productions for both traditional TV and the Internet. During 2014 DreamHack attracted 104,000 visitors to its events and more than 15 million unique viewers who followed the live broadcast online. More information is available on www.dreamhack.se

ABOUT TWITCH
Twitch is the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. Each month, more than 100 million community members gather to watch and talk about video games with more than 1.5 million broadcasters. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of both live and on-demand distribution for the entire video game ecosystem. This includes game developers, publishers, media outlets, events, user generated content, and the entire esports scene. In February 2014, Twitch was ranked the 4th largest website in terms of peak Internet traffic in the U.S., fortifying the brand as an entertainment industry leader and the epicenter of social video for gamers. For more information visit the Twitch website and the blog.

CONTACT DREAMHACK
Press
Fredrik Nyström
+46 76 800 1336
fredrik.nystrom@dreamhack.se