Forget about opening up Twitch to watch the Call of Duty League opening event this weekend. Activision Blizzard has just secured YouTube as its exclusive streaming partner for all of its esports, including Call of Duty League, Overwatch League, Hearthstone esports, and World of Warcraft esports. This comes as part of a bigger strategic deal between Activision Blizzard and Google that includes Google Cloud as the publisher?s ?game hosting infrastructure.?
The multi-year deal starts today with the Call of Duty League 2020 season opener in Minnesota. 12 franchised teams are coming together to compete in the newly created league, an evolution and drastic change to the Call of Duty World League that sees a whole new structure for this year. Overwatch League, kicking off on February 8, 2020, will also be streamed exclusively on YouTube. This is a pretty big shift for both leagues that each had a big presence on Twitch. With this move, you won?t be able to catch any Activision Blizzard esports live on Twitch or Mixer. YouTube is the exclusive streaming platform for the foreseeable future.
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