Programming & Performance

AMC Networks Continues Walking Dead Platform Expansion With Twitch Channel

TWDUniverse rolls out Sunday, with 12 hours of original content each week

Poster for TWDUniverse — The Twitch channel, called TWDUniverse, will debut two weeks before AMC begins airing new episodes of The Walking Dead and its spinoffs.Twitch

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As part of this year’s “viewer first” upfront push, AMC Networks has been expanding The Walking Dead and its other shows to new platforms, including Pluto TV, IMDb TV and Reddit.

AMC Networks has been growing The Walking Dead franchise over the past several years with TV and movie spinoffs, but now the company is expanding the universe to several new platforms, including Twitch.

A Walking Dead-dedicated Twitch channel, called TWDUniverse, will roll out Sunday, enabling fans to livestream original programming created exclusively for the platform.

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Jason Lynch

Jason Lynch is senior managing editor at Adweek, overseeing the magazine and digital covers, as well as all TV coverage across linear and streaming.

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