Sure, there are plenty of gaming videos on YouTube, and Google even set up a gaming-oriented sub-site called YouTube Gaming to cater to the gaming community. Popular as it may be, YouTube Gaming is nowhere near as popular as Amazon’s Twitch.tv.

The general consensus is that YouTube is meant for the general public while Twitch.tv is meant exclusively for gamers. The Dorkly comic presented below further drives that point home by highlighting the 6 differences between Google’s YouTube and Amazon’s Twitch.tv.



Via Dorkly.


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YouTube recently announced that it’s testing a new Material Design interface that will "deliver a beautiful, delightful and intuitive user experience” based on 3 key principles: simplicity, consistency, and beauty.

To gather feedback, YouTube is offering the new UI to a small group of users. If you’re curious to see how Youtube’s latest desing looks like, you can opt-in to preview it here. Should it fail to live up to your expectations, select "Restore classic YouTube" from the Account Menu.