Mobile game broadcasting platform Kamcord is expanding its remit this week after receiving $10 million in a round of funding led by multinational entertainment firm Time Warner.
Alongside that investment Kamcord is opening up its platform, which has previously been focused entirely on allowing people to livestream themselves playing mobile games, to allow them to stream (or “app cast”) themselves doing anything on their phones: playing games, listening to music, or checking Twitter.
Time Warner Investments managing director Rachel Lam will join Kamcord’s board as part of the deal, and Kamcord cofounder Aditya Rathnam told TechCrunch that in the future he hopes Kamcord can “work with [Time Warner’s] publications or a sports league to help build a brand in front of our teen audience.”
That could easily encompass a renewed focus on video games and eSports, as Time Warner division Turner Broadcasting has already laid plans to begin broadcasting eSports on television and eSports league coverage on satellite radio.
This is the latest round of funding for the company, which last netted $15 million from investors (including Puzzle & Dragons publisher GungHo) at the end of 2014.
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