Twitch

twitch was a live streaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive and created in June 2011. The website was primarily known as a site where people would share themselves playing videogames. However the platform has a wide variety of users from Vloggers to chefs to reviews of Bernice Summerfield novels.

From 29 May to 23 July 2018 Twitch ran a marathon of Doctor Who from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode An Unearthly Child to the 1989 episode Survival. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.

This has led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations. It also at one point caused The Web Planet to be the #2 trending topic on U.K. Twitter. This is an interesting parallel to the serial's original airing when at 13.5 million viewers episode 1 was the highest rated 1960s Doctor Who episode.