Even More Global: New POPs and International Event Presence

Since our start, we’ve been hard at work connecting gamers around the world, and we continue to deliver on that mission. Today we’re excited to announce three new points of presence (POPs) in Asia, as well as the expansion of our event presence to more international gaming shows.

3 New POPs: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea

After widening our presence and strengthening our quality of service in the US and Europe over the past few years, we made a concerted effort to provide the best Twitch experience to our many broadcasters and viewers in Asia. We’re proud to announce completion of three new POPs in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea!

This is in addition to recent upgrades in Europe (London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Amsterdam) and new or upgraded POPs in the U.S. (Seattle, Chicago, Miami, and San Jose, California).

Expanded International Event Presence

In addition to our continued presence at gamescom 2015 from Cologne, Germany, this year we’ll be dropping booths for the first time at PAX Australia, Electronic Game Show in Mexico, and Tokyo Game Show in Japan. All of these events will feature a stage for publishers and developers to showcase their games to audiences around the world and feature hosts from Twitch and the broader broadcasting community.

All of this new globalization work builds upon our ongoing commitment to providing the best localized experience for our broadcasters and viewers. around the globe. We recently introduced Broadcaster Language Mode, which enables broadcasters to set their preferred language for chat. We expanded our partnership with Xsolla, offering hundreds of ways to pay for Turbo and channel subscriptions. And we continue to improve language translations, including adding language support to our iOS and Android apps for more than two dozen languages.

We thank you for making Twitch what it is and helping us grow all around the globe. We hope to see more of you in person at one of the many shows we attend, and we are very excited to connect with the thousands of you coming to TwitchCon 2015!