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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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Blizzard announced on April 16th that Diablo IV's upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion will have a Twitch Drops campaign, and the Diablo streaming category is about to get very, very busy.
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Three days ago, Kick and ESL Faceit Group made it official: every ESL Pro Tour event for Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 is now exclusively on Kick, starting with IEM Rio.
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Kick crossed 100 million hours watched in a single month during Q1 2026. That number, buried in the Streams Charts Q1 report released yesterday, is the kind of stat that makes you stop scrolling and g...
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Affiliates have been sitting outside the sponsored campaign window for years, watching Partners collect brand money while grinding the same hours. That changed on April 6th.
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