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Kai Cenat received his first Twitch payout when he was 19 and sleeping on an air mattress. By 2026, he's running what is probably the most watched channel on the planet and now, apparently, a mentorsh...
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A report dropped last Sunday that I suspect most streamers will scroll past, which would be a mistake.
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TwitchCon Rotterdam dropped a lot of announcements on May 30th, but the one that's had my Discord buzzing for the past week is the 2K 1440p upgrade. Higher bitrates, sharper image, rolling out to all...
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Twitch announced two AI features at TwitchCon Rotterdam on May 30th, and the streaming community's reaction has been roughly split between "finally" and "wait, is this going to be weird?" Stream Summa...
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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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