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Twitch confirmed SUBtember 2026 on August 18th, and if last year is anything to go by, you've got roughly two weeks before the discounted sub window closes and you're left wondering why you didn't pre...
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Twitch flipped a switch on August 20, 2026, and a few hundred thousand streamers quietly got access to something that used to be Partners-only territory: official brand sponsorships through Twitch's o...
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Twitch announced yesterday that streamers who go live in "dual format" mode during a qualifying window will have their communities get a buy-five-get-one-free deal on gift subs. One extra gift sub for...
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A streamer with 800 followers gets roughly the same opening seconds of viewer attention as one with 800,000. YouTube's design team apparently noticed that, and on August 13th they published a post lay...
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Kick's ad rollout went live on August 6, 2026, and the streaming internet has had predictably strong feelings about it ever since.
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Kick's community guidelines are the rulebook that decides whether your channel stays up, and they got their biggest rewrite yet in March 2026. The short version: Kick is looser than Twitch, but it is...
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Most IRL streamers have a story about the disconnect. You're mid-walk through a crowded market, chat's going mental, you're in the zone, and then the stream just... dies. You spend the next ten minute...
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In May I wrote that StreamElements had found a partner and wouldn't say who it was. Replies on that announcement were turned off, and I made the point that you don't turn replies off on good news.
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The bundle era isn't coming. It's already here, and it quietly reshuffled how millions of people decide where to watch things.
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Twitch rolled out its first proper parental controls suite on July 22, 2026, and it's a bigger deal than the quiet announcement made it look.
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Tuesday's OBS 32.2 release dropped quietly on GitHub, as they always do, and I nearly scrolled past it. Then I saw "redesigned Add Source menu" and actually stopped.
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GIF support in Twitch chat has existed for years through extensions and third-party overlays, but until July 17, 2026, the IRC tag documentation treated them as invisible. Bots couldn't see them. Auto...
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