NXT TakeOver was a series of periodic professional wrestling events produced by the American promotion WWE for its NXT brand division . The first TakeOver was simply titled TakeOver and was held in May 2014 as the brand's second major live event, after Arrival in February. TakeOver subsequently became the name for NXT's major events that were held several times a year. Beginning with the second event, TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way , many events included a subtitle, which either revived old WWE event names or were named after the event's location, some of which occurred annually, but some of the later ones were simply titled by their installment number. A total of 36 TakeOver events were held from May 2014 to August 2021.
57-679: The events were originally livestreamed exclusively on the WWE Network until TakeOver 31 in October 2020, when the events also became available on traditional pay-per-view before also becoming available on Peacock beginning with TakeOver: Stand & Deliver in April 2021. The TakeOver series came to an end following TakeOver 36 in August 2021, as in September, NXT was restructured with
114-454: A Dota 2 tournament with the largest prize pool in eSport history, was primarily streamed through Twitch, having a peak of over five million concurrent viewers. Within recent years there has been a large influx in viewership and investment into sports live streaming. Digital streaming across Prime Video, NFL Digital, Fox Sports Digital, and Verizon Media Mobile properties in 2019 surpassed an average audience of over 1 million – up 43% versus
171-424: A bomb threat and named streamer Ice Poseidon as the culprit, temporarily shutting down the airport. They may also be victim to stalking as with other celebrities; for example, a teenager showed up uninvited to a streamer's house and requested to live with him after having saved up for a one-way transcontinental flight. A Taiwan-based American streamer fell victim to a doxing and targeted harassment campaign by
228-451: A reality -based competition television show to a developmental territory for their main roster. In February 2014, the brand held its first live special that was uniquely titled Arrival , which was also the very first event to air live on WWE's online streaming service, the WWE Network , which launched earlier that same month. However, after NXT held an event titled TakeOver in May that year,
285-519: A Taiwanese streamer, coordinated through a private Facebook group with 17,000 members "whose activities involved tracking [his] whereabouts," death threats and "the distribution of his parents’ U.S. phone number and address". Twitch responded by temporarily suspending the harassed streamer. Live content streaming has been the topic of numerous papers examining ways to cultivate online communities through live interaction and increase attendance numbers with engaging content. The livestreaming platform Twitch
342-408: A maximum of 9 users. Bigo TV, launched in 2016 by Bigo TV Technology, has rapidly become the fastest-growing platform with over 400 million users across 150 countries. YY, Bigo TV’s parent company, invested $ 2.1 billion to acquire Bigo TV. In March 2015, Twitter launched a livestreaming app called Periscope . Normally, users would see a hyperlink attached to their broadcast, directing people to
399-491: A move by competitor World Championship Wrestling (WCW) to increase their annual pay-per-view events (in 1995, WCW held 9 PPV events, then 10 in 1996, and finally started airing monthly events in 1997). Notwithstanding the addition of more WWF events, WCW's events regularly ran between 2.5–3 hours. Starting with Ground Zero: In Your House in September 1997, the WWF expanded all of its In Your House events to three hours, thus matching
456-649: A new house in Orlando, Florida . The original concept of In Your House was that in the months when the WWF was not holding one of its then-five major PPV events ( WrestleMania , King of the Ring , SummerSlam , Survivor Series , and Royal Rumble , which at the time ran for three hours and retailed for US$ 29.95), they would offer a two-hour PPV, priced at US$ 14.95. The price was raised to US$ 19.95 starting in December 1995 with In Your House 5 . The WWF did this in response to
513-459: A new tab. Using Periscope, videos appear live on the timeline. If the user has allowed the site to share information, others can see where the user is streaming from. During the broadcast, users can comment, talk to the broadcaster, or ask questions. Kayvon Beykpour, CEO of Periscope, and Dick Costolo and Jack Dorsey , former CEOs of Twitter, all shared a common goal—to invent something that would merge both teams into one instead of as partners. It
570-742: A notable livestreamed event is Games Done Quick , a charity speedrunning marathon hosted on Twitch. Viewers are encouraged to donate for incentives during the stream such as naming characters in a run, having the runners attempt more difficult challenges, or winning prizes. Over $ 10 million has been raised across sixteen marathons. Professional streamers can generate livable revenue from viewer subscriptions and donations, as well as platform advertisements and sponsorships from eSports organizations, often earning much more from streaming than from tournament winnings. The audiences of professional gaming tournaments are primarily livestream viewers in addition to live audiences inside venues. The International 2017 ,
627-422: A specific website, they may find live media streams relevant to them. Live media can include coverage of various events such as concerts or live news coverage viewed using a web browser or apps such as Snapchat . James Harden and Trolli promoted an upcoming NBA All-Star Game through Snapchat. Many of LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner 's performance art were livestreamed, such as a stream of Shia LaBeouf in
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#1732794618939684-519: A theater viewing all his movies. However, live stream commerce today enables sellers to showcase products through streamers, mimicking in-store sales tactics to encourage customer purchases. Merritt and Zhao mention that Chinese 'live stream-based retailing’ has supported the economic growth of China and projected that about GBP 98 billion were generated from e-commerce live streaming in China. The McKinsey report also demonstrates that live stream commerce
741-708: A viewer may stay to watch a stream. The most common metric is the " average minute audience " (AMA), which is obtained by taking the total minutes watched by all viewers on the stream during the streamed event and for 24 hours afterwards, divided by the number of minutes that were broadcast. The AMA is comparable to the same metric that the Nielsen ratings for tracking viewership. This also makes it possible to combine standard broadcast and streaming routes for events that are simulcasted on both forms of delivery to estimate total audience size Major events with reported AMA include streamed National Football League games; for example,
798-407: A wide array of topics including original comedy, drama, and news programming. Facebook Live allows Facebook users to include their own "reactions" when someone is broadcasting. One of the reasons that Facebook Watch is so successful is because the content is recommended to users based on algorithms that determine what the user would most like to watch. YouTube was purchased by Google in 2006, and
855-528: Is a common focus among researching trying to transfer its user engagement success to other applications such as improving student participation and learning in massive open online courses (MOOCs). In Your House In Your House was a series of professional wrestling supercard events created by WWE , a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut . The events originally aired on pay-per-view (PPV) from May 1995 to February 1999 when
912-422: Is a live video streaming service supported by online betting Stake.com along with streaming personality Trainwreckstv . Launched in 2022 as a Amazon -owned Twitch alternative, Kick emerged after Stake.com and other gambling sites were restricted on Twitch. Kick offers a 95% revenue share to streamers and 5% to the platform. Although Kick is not officially linked to Stake.com co-founders, records show they are
969-451: Is a livestreaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon . Introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform, Justin.tv , the site primarily focuses on video game livestreaming , including broadcasts of eSports competitions, in addition to music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, " in real life " streams. Content on
1026-565: Is expanding in China, the sales from live stream commerce were expected to achieve $ 423 billion by 2022, and the US live streaming industry was also expected to reach $ 25 billion by 2023. Facebook introduced a video streaming service, Facebook Watch to select individuals in August 2017, and to the public in January 2018. Facebook watch is a video-on-demand service that allows users to share content live. It allows people to upload videos that cover
1083-472: Is often credited with bringing this concept to the mainstream. He founded Justin.tv , a website initially focused solely on broadcasting his own life 24/7. This lifecasting platform eventually evolved, serving as the foundation for a new style of online sharing and paving the way for more diverse content. In its early days, Justin.tv was an experimental space where Kan himself was the main focus, capturing everything from his workdays to social interactions. This
1140-422: The 2022 Vengeance Day aired as a television special instead of airing on PPV and via livestreaming, while the 2022 editions of Stand & Deliver and In Your House only aired via livestreaming and not on PPV. Livestreamed Livestreaming , live-streaming , or live streaming is the streaming of video or audio in real time or near real time . While often referred to simply as streaming ,
1197-614: The Christchurch mosque shootings was streamed on Facebook Live by the perpetrator for 17 minutes. Additionally, livestreaming to large audiences carries the risk that viewers may commit crimes both remotely and in person. Twitch co-founder Justin Kan had been a frequent target of swatting . An incident occurred in April 2017 at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport when a viewer called in
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#17327946189391254-620: The NXT TakeOver series, but after TakeOver's discontinuation in late 2021, the final In Your House was a standalone event for NXT. The first In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) was held on May 14, 1995, in Syracuse, New York at Upstate Medical University Arena (then known as Oncenter War Memorial Arena). To promote this first event, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) held a sweepstakes to give away
1311-671: The WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida , presented as a virtual fan viewing experience with a small live crowd called the "Capitol Wrestling Center", an homage to the Capitol Wrestling Corporation , the predecessor to WWE. The Capitol Wrestling Center was similar to the WWE ThunderDome , which was a bio-secure bubble that the company utilized for Raw and SmackDown 's programs. Most COVID restrictions were lifted in mid-2021 with
1368-622: The "In Your House" branding until it was quietly dropped in the weeks leading to the pay-per-view. Following this, several of the In Your House shows were rebranded as their own PPV chronologies, including Over the Edge , Fully Loaded , Unforgiven , No Way Out , Judgment Day , and Bad Blood . In 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and in 2011, the promotion ceased using its full name, with WWE becoming an orphaned initialism . On May 13, 2020, WWE announced that
1425-570: The "TakeOver" name became the branding for all NXT live specials. All NXT live specials were initially held at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida , as with the main NXT series. They were also originally exclusive to the WWE Network until TakeOver 31 in October 2020 when they also became available on traditional pay-per-view (PPV), before also becoming available on Peacock after
1482-542: The 2021 Wild Card Playoff Game and beyond. These broadcasts featured Nickelodeon's signature cartoons and commentary from stars Gabrielle Green and Lex Lumpkin. Despite the growth of live streaming for sports, there are concerns about unauthorised live streaming and piracy of sports content. In January 2021 alone it was said that humans made 362.7 million visits to sports piracy websites. These concerns are exacerbated when studies show over 54% of millennials have watched pirate sports live streams. This has created issues over
1539-738: The American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock in March 2021, thus being the first In Your House to air on Peacock. In September 2021, NXT was rebranded as NXT 2.0, returning it to its original function as WWE's developmental brand , and the NXT TakeOver series was subsequently discontinued. The 2022 event was in turn held without the TakeOver branding, and it only aired on WWE's livestreaming platforms as NXT's events ceased airing on traditional pay-per-view that year. This would be
1596-522: The American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock in March 2021. Beginning with TakeOver: Brooklyn in 2015, the events were held at various U.S. and international locations, with most TakeOvers being named after their host city or U.S. state , which also began with that Brooklyn event. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , however, all NXT events returned to Full Sail University in mid-March 2020 until TakeOver 31 that October, when events were moved to
1653-449: The In Your House branding would be revived for the NXT brand division as an NXT TakeOver event entitled TakeOver: In Your House on June 7, which aired exclusively on WWE's online streaming service, the WWE Network . The announcement and the event marked the 25th anniversary of the first In Your House PPV. The event featured homages to the WWF in the early 90's, including a recreation of
1710-419: The In Your House series was that in the months when the promotion was not holding one of its then-five major PPV events ( WrestleMania , SummerSlam , King of the Ring , Royal Rumble , and Survivor Series ), it would offer a two-hour PPV for a lower price. In Your House was established in response to a move by competitor World Championship Wrestling to increase its annual PPV events. The In Your House branding
1767-486: The announcement, Mixer's parent company, Microsoft, announced a partnership with Facebook gaming, and directed current users to the new platform. Livestreaming playing of video games gained popularity during the 2010s. David M. Ewalt referred to Twitch as "the ESPN of video games". The website spawned from and grew to overshadow Justin.tv, and was purchased by Amazon.com at the end of 2014 for US$ 970 million. As one of
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1824-477: The average AMA for NFL games in 2018 ranged from 240,000 to 500,000 across streaming services, with the following Super Bowl LIV having an AMA of 2.6 million. In comparison, the esports Overwatch League had an average of 313,000 average minute audience during regular season games in its 2019 season. Many instances of serious crimes such as rape and assault , along with suicides , have been streamed live, leaving little to no time for administrators to remove
1881-475: The brand's succeeding events no longer carrying the TakeOver name, including some former TakeOver events, such as Stand & Deliver , which has since been held as NXT's WrestleMania week event. With the establishment of NXT UK in 2018—a sister brand of NXT based in the United Kingdom—the brand adopted the TakeOver name for its live events . In 2012, WWE restructured their NXT brand from being
1938-704: The broadcaster and join ongoing conversations. These rooms often include emojis and emotes as additional communication tools. In the field of social media , the term live media refers to new media that use streaming technologies for creating networks of live multimedia shared among people, companies and organizations. Social media marketer Bryan Kramer describes livestreaming as an inexpensive "key marketing and communications tool that helps brands reach their online audience." Users can follow their friends' live video "shares" as well as "shares" related to specific content or items. Live media can be shared through any Internet website or application; thus, when people browse
1995-671: The events no longer including a virtual audience and resumed having a live audience. Although the Raw and SmackDown brands resumed live touring in July 2021, NXT remained at the Capitol Wrestling Center. As TakeOvers were only held in Florida since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, they were named either by their installment number (e.g., TakeOver 31) or revived old WWE pay-per-view names (e.g., TakeOver: In Your House ), with
2052-530: The exception of TakeOver: WarGames that year. Since TakeOver: Brooklyn in 2015, several TakeOver events were scheduled as a support event for each of WWE's "Big Four" pay-per-view events at the time ( Royal Rumble , WrestleMania , SummerSlam , and Survivor Series ), and occasionally, their other monthly pay-per-views, such as Backlash and Money in the Bank . Before the COVID-19 pandemic, TakeOvers also shared
2109-428: The future sustainability and protection of legally broadcast streams. With livestreaming becoming a financially viable market, particularly for esports, streamers and organizations representing them have looked for metrics to quantify the viewership of streams as to be able to determine pricing for advertisers. Metrics like maximum number of concurrent viewers, or number of subscribers do not readily account for how long
2166-460: The house-themed stage used during the earlier In Your House events, and Adam Cole appearing in a parody of the commercials for ICOPRO bodybuilding supplements . A second TakeOver: In Your House was scheduled for June 13, 2021, thus making In Your House an annual subseries of TakeOver events. This second event aired on both the WWE Network and traditional pay-per-view, thus returning In Your House to pay-per-view. It also aired on Peacock after
2223-500: The leading livestreaming platforms, Twitch now has millions of broadcasters and has nearly two hundred million viewers. Other video-game oriented streaming websites include Smashcast.tv , which was formed after the merging of Azubu and Hitbox.tv , and the South Korea-based afreecaTV . In 2015, YouTube launched YouTube Gaming—a video gaming-oriented sub-site and app that is intended to compete with Twitch. An example of
2280-590: The main shareholders of the company owning the streaming site. Notable streamers like Hikaru Nakamura and Nickmercs , formerly popular on Twitch, joined Kick, contributing to its average of 235,000 live streams per day as of June 2023. Lifestreaming , also known as lifecasting, is the practice of continuously broadcasting various aspects of one's daily life to an online audience. This modern phenomenon allows people to share even mundane events in real-time, giving viewers an intimate look into someone's routine. Justin Kan , an entrepreneur and internet personality,
2337-510: The main titles (e.g., the PPV was not named "In Your House: Ground Zero", but instead, "Ground Zero: In Your House"), until regular named shows such as Backlash took over in 1999. The In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House event, as the company moved to install permanent names for each of its monthly events, which began with Backlash. Early advertising for that year's Backlash featured
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2394-554: The night preceding Survivor Series from 2017 to 2019; in 2020, it was held two weeks after Survivor Series. The event featured the namesake WarGames match as its main event. TakeOver: Stand & Deliver in April 2021 was the only TakeOver held across two nights. Only one NXT TakeOver event had to be canceled. TakeOver: Tampa Bay was originally set to air live from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on April 4, 2020. The event
2451-528: The offending content. Livestreamed crimes became a trend in the mid-2010s with widely reported incidents such as assaults and suicide streamed through Periscope in 2016 and the kidnapping of a man in Chicago streamed through Facebook Live in 2017. A mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida , resulting in the deaths of two in addition to the shooter, occurred during a Madden NFL 19 tournament. Part of
2508-427: The pair subsequently announced their livestreaming app. Like Periscope , users can comment during the broadcast. Unlike Periscope, livestreams on YouTube can be saved and any user can access them through the app. YouTube head of product for consumers, Manuel Bronstein, stated that livestreaming gives creators the opportunity to "actually create a more intimate connection with their fans." Kick (also known as Kick.com)
2565-745: The previous year (729,000). Additionally, research and forecasts have shown that consumer spending on traditional pay-TV services fell by 8% to $ 90.7 billion in 2021 and will decline further to $ 74.5 billion in 2023. It is expected that U.S. household subscription-based services spending will surpass pay TV for the first time in 2024. Large corporations such as Amazon have looked to expand into sports live streaming. In 2021, Amazon closed an 11-year, $ 113 billion deal to stream National Football League (NFL) games on their Amazon Prime Video Streaming Platform. Live streaming in sports targets younger viewers with its easy access and subscriptions. The NFL notably partnered with Nickelodeon for youth-focused livestreams of
2622-508: The promotion was still called the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; renamed WWE in 2002). In 2020, WWE revived In Your House for its developmental brand NXT . The 2020 event was streamed exclusively on the WWE Network with the 2021 event also available via traditional PPV and the livestreaming service Peacock , while the 2022 event was only available via WWE's livestreaming platforms. A total of 30 In Your House events were held between May 1995 and June 2022. The original concept of
2679-448: The real time nature of livestreaming differentiates it from other non- live broadcast forms of streamed media such as video-on-demand , vlogs and video-sharing platforms such as YouTube . Livestreaming services encompass a wide variety of topics, including social media , video games , professional sports , and lifecasting . Platforms such as Facebook Live , Periscope , Kuaishou , Douyu , bilibili , YouTube , and 17 include
2736-415: The runtime of its major PPV events. The first six In Your House events were not promoted with subtitles , which were retroactively added (shown below in the table in small print), sometimes making use of a tagline. The first event to officially use a subtitle was the seventh event, In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies . From September 1997 onwards, the subtitles replaced the In Your House label as
2793-629: The same game. Like Twitch , viewers on Mixer could pay to subscribe to streamers on a monthly basis. Viewers could also buy "Embers", which was the e-currency used by the site, and could donate that to streamers as well. While Twitch remained the biggest company in the business, Mixer attempted to raise its stock by signing multiple big streamers to Mixer-exclusive deals. These signings included Tyler "Ninja" Blevins in August 2019, Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek in October 2019, and Cory "King Gothalion" Michael also in October 2019. Mixer announced it would be shutting down its streaming services on July 22, 2020. In
2850-412: The same venue as those PPVs, except when those PPVs were held in a stadium; in these cases, TakeOver was held at an arena in the same city instead. There were also recurring subseries of TakeOver events; TakeOver: Brooklyn was also the first to have its own subseries of TakeOvers. Other subseries of TakeOvers included Toronto, Chicago, In Your House , and the most prominent, WarGames, which had been held on
2907-524: The site can be viewed either live or via video on demand . Bigo Live is a live video streaming mobile app, which is based in Singapore and all operations are handled by China team in Beijing. On Bigo, users can go live via video stream and chat with the real-time audience. User can also watch live streaming videos of other broadcasters. The video chats can be one to one video calls or group chats between
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#17327946189392964-432: The streaming of scheduled promotions and celebrity events as well as streaming between users, as in videotelephony . Livestreaming sites such as Twitch have become popular outlets for watching people play video games, such as in esports , Let's Play -style gaming, or speedrunning . Live coverage of sporting events is a common application. Chat rooms are a key feature in livestreaming, allowing viewers to interact with
3021-598: Was discontinued in March 2021 due to declining usage, product realignment and high maintenance costs. Microsoft entered the livestreaming scene when it acquired Beam, the Seattle-based company, in August 2016. About a year after acquiring the company, the service was renamed to Mixer in May 2017. The platform was the first to bring multiple features to livestreaming such as interactive gameplay, where viewers could influence gameplay, and co-streaming, where viewers could watch multiple viewpoints of teammates in
3078-453: Was initially postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which began effecting WWE's programming in mid-March; however, it was ultimately canceled with matches planned and scheduled for the event moved to weekly episodes of NXT , beginning April 1. In September 2021, the NXT brand went through a restructuring, being rebranded as "NXT 2.0", reverting to a developmental territory for WWE. In October, it
3135-477: Was not only a unique entertainment format but also a groundbreaking use of technology at the time. Kan's innovation in this area led to the popularization of lifestreaming, which has since evolved to include various forms of content and millions of users worldwide. Today, the influence of the original concept can be seen across multiple platforms and in different variations, extending beyond individual lifecasting to live broadcasts of events, gaming, and more. Twitch
3192-416: Was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House event, as the company moved to install permanent names for each of its monthly PPVs, which began with Backlash . After 21 years and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic , WWE revived In Your House for NXT in 2020 and it was subsequently held annually in June until its final event in 2022. The 2020 and 2021 events were held under
3249-567: Was speculated that the company may end the TakeOver series as another TakeOver event was not scheduled for 2021 after TakeOver 36 in August. On November 9, 2021, NXT's next PPV and livestreaming event was announced as WarGames to be held on December 5, 2021. Unlike the previous WarGames events , however, the announcement confirmed that the event would not be a TakeOver event, thus ending the TakeOver series. Vengeance Day , Stand & Deliver , and In Your House would also continue on as their own events following TakeOver's discontinuation, although
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