Twitch streamers are waking up to the unfortunate news that they received a DMCA takedown over the last 12 hours. The DMCA’s appear to have been issues based upon clips, some of which are going back as far as 2017. While the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is...
A couple of weeks ago, Harris Heller posted an innocuous tweet about his feelings on Starting Soon screens. It wasn’t a controversial take, but considering Harris’ status as the ‘stream doctor’ it was perceived that way. Opinions that originate from authoritative...
Twitch announced their new “Safety Advisory Council”, in a tweet and blog post. The Council, comprised of members of the community and experts are tasked with informing and guiding decisions related to safety on the platform. Originally announced at Twitchcon 2019, the (then)...
In the last couple of days, Twitch has shut down two third-party developers’ tools by issuing takedown requests. Those two services are CommanderRoot and Overrustle Logs. As a result of the threat, both services have announced that they will be shut down. In both takedown demands...
Twitch may have just made a change to help address trolls who harass streamers. It’s something that streamers have been asking for for a long time, and it looks to be here! Shadowbans! After testing in three channels personally, and then having three other people try to replicate it...
Last night, Twitch sent out invites to their ‘new’ Twitch User Research Community. This is the second big wave of invites they’ve sent out, after the first one around December 10th, 2019. This research community is DIFFERENT than Twitch’s existing Research Power...
Back on January 20th, 2020, BadBunny, a notorious Twitch streamer made waves for a rant she made against her non-subscribers. The rant was viewed at least 4.3M views on Twitter, millions of times on YouTube, and over 1M views on Twitch clips. It was also covered by esports news media...
Channel Points are a new feature for Twitch streamers that were made available to everyone back in Mid-December. The loyalty points system are rewarded for watching, for keeping streaks and for remaining active in a channel. In early tests, Twitch reported that large channels experienced...
Over a dozen Overwatch streamers got a pretty significant Christmas gift over the last 2 days – an influx of cash totally nearly $25,000. The money has been contributed in various ways including Bits (Twitch’s Platform Currency), Gifted Subs and direct cash donations. Anyone...
If you’re a broadcaster on Twitch, you’ve likely seen the notification bar at the top of your dashboard. It’s provided a long countdown to the official launch of the new Creator Dashboard. That day is today. At some point in the next number of hours, the old dashboard...
