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A few weeks back, Streamlabs quietly dropped something that got buried under the usual noise: a direct integration between Streamlabs and Patreon. No fanfare, no big launch event. Just a feature that,...
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Zohran Mamdani became the first elected US official to run a recurring live Q&A show on Twitch on May 21, 2026. Not a one-off charity stream, not a brief appearance on someone else's channel. His own...
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A few days ago I wrote that StreamElements was in acquisition talks, and asked whether the whole marketplace era was coming to an end. I didn't expect an answer this quickly.
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Twitch dropped two new monetisation features on May 19th and the announcement landed quietly enough that a lot of streamers probably scrolled past it. That'd be a mistake.
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The changelog dropped on May 13th and most streamers I've spoken to either skimmed it or missed it entirely. That's a shame, because the Sound Alerts rehaul update is one of the more genuinely useful...
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Back in January, Or Perry (CEO of StreamElements) made a public ask for creators to chip in to "Keep It Live". A SoftBank-backed company that's taken $111M in funding, passing the hat to the creators...
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Two days ago, on May 13th, Twitch quietly did something it has resisted for years: it opened Subs, Bits, and Channel Points to every streamer on the platform, regardless of follower count or streaming...
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A streamer with 800 concurrent viewers gets caught viewbotting. Under the old rules, Twitch bans them and they start a new account. Under the rules Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced on May 7, 2026, the...
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Rotterdam, June 2026. Thousands of streamers, moderators, sponsors, and fans crammed into one convention centre, and Twitch dropped the full official guide on May 1st, which means the window for actua...
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Kick shipped a dedicated mobile streaming app on April 27th, and the IRL streaming community has been loudly pleased about it ever since.
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Twitch suspended ExtraEmily's channel earlier this month - not officially, not by platform action, but in effect, because she stepped away herself. On April 21, 2026, one of Twitch's more recognisable...
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Nearly half of all live-streaming viewership on the planet is happening on TikTok right now. That number landed yesterday when Stream Hatchet dropped their Q1 2026 report - the first one to ever inclu...
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