Twitch today publicly launched Twitch Studio, its new software designed to help new streamers get started broadcasting. The idea behind the app is to make it simple for someone new to the space to get started, by offering a quick setup process and other tools to make the stream both look and sound more professional…
Twitch streamer Amouranth has been heavily criticized after seemingly being caught reading Twitch chat while driving. This is the second time that the streamer has been in the news this year, as Amouranth was also banned from Twitch for an NSFW wardrobe accident. Yesterday, Amouranth broadcasted an IRL stream for her viewers where she streamed…
Live streaming site Twitch rolls out a feature called “Founders Badge” as a new way to help streamers make money. This is the second major revenue announcement that Twitch has made this quarter, as it changed the way that Twitch ads work. On Twitter, Twitch announced the Founders Badge which is a badge that will…
Twitch streamer Pray4Cthulu gets affiliated after streaming their pet rock for seven days. The streams of the rock, which really is just a lump of sediment with a couple of googly eyes stuck to it, has proved to be incredibly popular with users of the live streaming site. In a post on Twitter, Twitch streamer…
Live streaming site Twitch has announced plans to change its ad system, finding a way of making money that doesn’t suck for viewers and streamers. Twitch has been criticized heavily this year for a few things such as the way it has been handing out bans for nude content, but the change to ads could…
Saejin Oh, a popular artist who streams on Twitch, has threatened a move to Mixer after being banned for their NSFW artwork. Oh’s ban is one of several that Twitch has handed out for violations of the sexual and suggestive content rule, as Amouranth was also banned for an NSFW wardrobe malfunction. One Strike Away…
Amazon-owned Twitch has made a small but strategic acquisition designed to improve its search capabilities and better direct viewers to exactly the right content. The company is acquiring IGDB, the Internet Games Database (no relation to Amazon’s IMDb), a website dedicated to combining all the relevant information about games into a comprehensive resource for gamers…
Twitch streamer Alinity has come under fire after being seen trying to attack a cat in Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5)just a month after she was accused of abusing her cat in a livestream. The streamer, who has nearly one million followers on Twitch, threw the cat and tricked it into consuming alcohol. Two…
Twitch continues to lead rivals including, YouTube Live, Facebook Gaming and Microsoft’s Mixer, when it comes to live-streaming video. Despite experiencing its first decline in hours watched in Q2 2019, the Amazon-owned game-streaming site still had its second-biggest quarter to date, with more than 70% of the hours watched during the quarter. According to a…
