Mixer’s Poaching of Twitch’s Big Names Just Doesn’t Move the Needle

First it was Ninja. Now it’s Shroud. Mixer is trying to build momentum by buying big names — but can it translate to views?

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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4 min readOct 24, 2019

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It’s been a big year for single-name personalities and platforms. Months after Mixer, the Microsoft-owned streaming platform, managed to woo…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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