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Twitch experiences an outage for the second time in a week
Update, 1/5/23, 4:30 p.m. EST: Twitch reports that the site is in the process of recovering, though some users are still experiencing issues. The popular livestreaming service Twitch is experiencing a
YouTube will soon roll out a ‘Go Live Together’ co-streaming feature to select creators
YouTube is gearing up to roll out a new feature that will allow select creators to invite a guest to go live with them, the company announced on its Creator Insider channel and in a blog post. At laun
Twitch opens Guest Star up so anyone can run their own talk show now
With its biggest product launch in years, Twitch is betting on a near future of the platform that features more dynamic conversations, expanding its current focus beyond mostly solo streamers. Through
Twitch is testing ‘elevated chats’ that let you pay to highlight a message
Between recent drama around gambling and its controversial decision to take a bigger slice of the subscription revenue pie, it’s been a dramatic couple of weeks for Twitch. Now, the company says
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Twitch plans to cut subscription revenue for some top streamers in push toward ads
Twitch plans to standardize its revenue sharing agreement with streamers, reshaping the earnings landscape for top creators who have historically been able to pocket a bigger portion of the money they
Twitch responds to gambling scam drama by banning some betting sites
Twitch is cracking down on some gambling sites after a streamer scammed his peers out of tens of thousands of dollars to fuel a betting habit, kicking off a firestorm about how the platform should han
Stacked gets $13M to be the Twitch for web3 gamers
Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Legacy developers and gamers are calling play-to-earn games Ponzi schemes, while crypto-believers say games that incorporate &#
Facebook is shutting down its standalone Gaming app in October
Just over two years after its launch, Facebook is shutting down the Facebook Gaming app on October 28, 2022. Now, when you open the app, you’ll see a banner stating that the app will no longer b
Twitch now lets partners stream on rival platforms like YouTube and Facebook
Twitch is lifting its exclusivity agreement that prevented its partners from streaming on other services, the company said in an email to partners on Tuesday. Starting today, partners can now stream o
Ready Player Me, a platform to build dynamic cross-game avatars for virtual worlds, raises $56M led by a16z
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg was roundly mocked for the bad graphics in his preview of a new expansion of Horizon Worlds, Meta’s metaverse effort. His quick response promising better avatars for t
VTubers are making millions on YouTube and Twitch
It was the world’s largest gathering of internet celebrities. As I waited to meet Twitch streamer Code Miko in a hotel lobby at VidCon, I spotted an Instagram-famous husky, a fan favorite contes
Venue raises $4M from Accel and the CEOs of Slack, Remote and Squarespace to give teamwide video meetings a new breath of life
Zoom has in many ways “won” the mindshare game when it comes to video conferencing: Whether you’re actually using Zoom or another service that’s wrapped into another platform l
Amazon and Nielsen close ‘Thursday Night Football’ ratings deal
Amazon and data measurement firm Nielsen have sealed a three-year deal for measuring the ratings of Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” (TNF). Nielsen said this would be the first time t
Twitch founder Justin Kan: Web3 games don’t need to lure players with profit
Top crypto VCs are constantly touting the potential of video games as one of the most compelling use cases for blockchain technology. Andreessen Horowitz partner Arianna Simpson, for example, who led
Samsung brings Amazon Luna games to its smart TVs and monitors
Samsung announced Wednesday that it’s bringing more than 250 games to the Samsung Gaming Hub through the Amazon Luna streaming-based gaming service. The company is making these titles available
Big Tech’s push to self-regulate harmful content in New Zealand is ‘weak attempt to preempt regulation’, critics say
Big technology companies including Facebook’s parent Meta and Google have signed a pact to self-regulate themselves over harmful content shared across digital platforms in New Zealand. The move
Twitch builds toward a ‘layered’ safety approach with new moderator tools
Moderating an online community is hard, often thankless work — and it’s even harder when it happens in a silo. On Twitch, interconnected channels already informally share information on users
Facebook Gaming now lets creators turn their live gameplay clips into Reels
Facebook Gaming is rolling out a new “Clips to Reels” feature that allows creators to turn their live gameplay clips into Reels. Facebook first announced the feature last month and is now
Twitch is adding a ‘charity mode’ that simplifies streaming for a good cause
Streaming to raise money for a good cause is a big deal on Twitch, but the platform has always pointed creators elsewhere to manage the logistics of raising cash and getting it where it needs to go. N