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Twitch launched in 2011, originally as a platform for gamers to stream their play sessions live. Back then, it felt niche—like a space for hardcore gamers and esports enthusiasts. Now? Twitch is ...

Users will be given more information when they receive strikes, while strikes for breaking ‘low severity’ rules will expire over time. Users will be given more information when they receive strikes, ...

Twitch is finally giving DJs a place to get paid for streaming their sets—and compensate the artists they spin. Its limited catalog of songs and opaque earnings plan may leave some streamers cold.

To compete with services like TikTok, streaming platform Twitch is now rolling out its own “Discovery Feed” on Android and iOS. That’s not all as the an app redesign was also promised for “later this ...

Twitch users are wondering why popular streamer StrawberryTabby was banned from the platform. Here is all you need to know. StrawberryTabby was banned on Twitch for showing extremely suggestive and ...

Imane “Pokimane” Anys is leaving Twitch exclusivity in a move she’s called “the end of an era.” Anys teased the move in a post on X Tuesday: “Twitch has been my home for a decade..,” she wrote, “but ...

It would be an understatement to say that the pandemic was good for Twitch. According to one report in 2021, the hours watched on the site increased 45% between 2020 and 2021. But it wasn’t just views ...

Amazon‘s gamer-centric streaming outlet Twitch is laying off 500 staffers, CEO Dan Clancy told employees in a memo this morning. The move is being made in sync with cutbacks at corporate siblings ...

When news broke that Amazon was buying Twitch, a videogame-themed online streaming site, for nearly $1 billion, the most striking thing in all the media reports—at least to me—was the sheer number of ...