Happy Birthday, Bob Ross!
Janson Media today announced an agreement with Twitch.tv to live-stream the entire library of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, the most watched art show in the history of television, and a certifiable cult classic. Starting today and in honor of the late painter's birthday, Twitch.tv will livestream all 403 episodes of the show over the next eight days. Twitch is the world"s leading social video platform and community for gamers, with 100 million unique users and over 20 billion minutes viewed per month. The company chose The Joy of Painting to mark its launch of a bigger and broader focus on its swiftly growing Creative community. The category now has its own dedicated landing page under the Twitch Creative header and is officially recognized as a content area the brand is actively supporting.
Read the announcement on the official Twitch blog, and visit the Twitch Bob Ross Channel to get a healthy dose of happy trees and happy clouds. Visit the official Bob Ross website, and read more about Bob at Wikipedia. Reddit also picked up on the story - join the conversation here.
Read some of the press reaction to the story on these websites:
- Bree Rody-Mantha for Stream Daily
- Yahoo Finance
- Adam Rosenberg for Mashable
- Business Wire
- Matt Weinberger for Business Insider
- Hayley Tsukayama for the Washington Post
- Dean Takahashi for Venture Beat
- Paresh Dave at the Los Angeles Times
- Lauren Hockenson for The Next Web
- Timothy Seppala for Engadget
- Bryan Lufkin for Gizmodo
- Emmanuel Maiberg for Vice
- Lauren Keating for Tech Times
- Ian Paul for MacWorld and PC World
- Ben Popper for The Verge
- Examiner
- Charlotte Banks for Geek Snack
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