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Twitch Confirms Layoffs Of 500 Staffers In Sync With Amazon Studios, Prime Video Cuts


Amazon’s gamer-centric streaming outlet Twitch is laying off 500 staffers, CEO Dan Clancy told employees in a memo this morning. The move is being made in sync with cutbacks at corporate sibl…

The move is being made in sync with cutbacks at corporate siblings Prime Video and Amazon Studios. As with many other companies in the tech space, we are now sizing our organization based upon the current scale of our business and conservative predictions of how we expect to grow in the future.” While it has been in the Amazon fold for nearly a decade, Twitch has been in a transitional period in recent months, following the departure last March of founder and former CEO Emmett Shear.

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