The September 2026 numbers for Kick came out this week and they're worth sitting with for a moment. 773 million hours watched. Over 1 million average concurrent viewers. For a platform that most peopl...

A streamer I know spent three hours last Tuesday trying to get a Watch With session going with a documentary that had been sitting in her watch-later queue for months. Couldn't do it. Watch With only...

Kick sent out partner payments last week and a chunk of streamers got the wrong amount. Some got less than expected, some got more (briefly, awkwardly), and the ones who noticed had to figure out whet...

The Ofcom report dropped on September 15th, and the number that stuck with me was 20%. One in five UK adults are now turning to AI for their news. Not Google. Not BBC iPlayer. Not even a mate's WhatsA...

Twitch quietly dropped something on September 11th that I suspect most streamers scrolled past while doom-checking their analytics: a built-in AI tool called Stream Coach that watches your broadcasts...

The most-watched game on Twitch in 2026 is not the game most streamers are grinding.

Four days ago, YouTube quietly updated its advertiser guidelines in a way that matters quite a bit if you stream mature-rated games. The short version: graphic violence in gaming content can now be mo...

GTA RP Week kicked off on Twitch yesterday, September 3rd, and if you stream in that space, you already know your dashboard is looking a bit different this week.

On August 27th, thousands of streamers hit "go live" at roughly the same time, all pointing their audiences at the same Rockstar Games footage. The GTA VI official gameplay reveal turned into an accid...

The Future Games Show at Gamescom 2026 pulled a 15.4% viewership jump year-on-year, according to Streams Charts data published yesterday. That's not a rounding error. That's tens of thousands of extra...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Twitch added a setting on Tuesday called "Training for Generative AI". It lives in Security and Privacy, near the bottom of the page, and it was already switched on by the time you found out it existe...

Kick's ad rollout went live on August 6, 2026, and the streaming internet has had predictably strong feelings about it ever since.

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...

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.

The bundle era isn't coming. It's already here, and it quietly reshuffled how millions of people decide where to watch things.

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.

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.

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...

The Home Run Derby on July 13th pulled in a crowd that, six months ago, would have been sitting in front of ESPN. Netflix streamed it. Not a recorded highlight package, not a condensed replay with ads...

Forty-five games. Two weeks. A firehose of new viewers landing on streams they've never watched before, staying just long enough to earn their drop and then... either leaving or sticking around. Which...

Kick just put $100,000 on the table for PUBG: Battlegrounds players, and most streamers will scroll past it, assume it's for someone else, and go back to their usual schedule.

Kai Cenat, the most-subscribed streamer on Twitch, announced on July 4th that he's done with platform exclusivity. He'll now stream simultaneously on Twitch and YouTube.

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The beta tag quietly disappeared from Twitch's Channel Points redemption endpoint on June 26, 2026. No fanfare, no announcement thread that went viral, just a changelog entry that most streamers will...

On June 23, 2026, Twitch and SoundCloud officially announced "SoundCloud Sessions," a full-day DJ event streamed live on Twitch. Not a small showcase. Not a weekend slot. An entire day of DJ sets, pla...

The announcement dropped on June 26, 2026, and if you stream on Kick, you probably felt the ground shift a little.

Twitch quietly dropped something genuinely useful into its changelog on June 18th, and I suspect most streamers missed it because it arrived without fanfare between two other minor API notes.

A new VAB report dropped on June 15th, 2026, and buried inside the usual industry jargon is something that should genuinely change how you think about making money from live streaming.

Kick handed out custom creator jerseys on June 9th, and the internet paid attention.

Kai Cenat received his first Twitch payout when he was 19 and sleeping on an air mattress. By 2026, he's running what is probably the most watched channel on the planet and now, apparently, a mentorsh...

A report dropped last Sunday that I suspect most streamers will scroll past, which would be a mistake.

TwitchCon Rotterdam dropped a lot of announcements on May 30th, but the one that's had my Discord buzzing for the past week is the 2K 1440p upgrade. Higher bitrates, sharper image, rolling out to all...

Twitch announced two AI features at TwitchCon Rotterdam on May 30th, and the streaming community's reaction has been roughly split between "finally" and "wait, is this going to be weird?" Stream Summa...

A few weeks back, Streamlabs quietly dropped something that got buried under the usual noise: a direct integration between Streamlabs and Patreon. No fanfare, no big launch event. Just a feature that,...

Zohran Mamdani became the first elected US official to run a recurring live Q&A show on Twitch on May 21, 2026. Not a one-off charity stream, not a brief appearance on someone else's channel. His own...

Twitch dropped two new monetisation features on May 19th and the announcement landed quietly enough that a lot of streamers probably scrolled past it. That'd be a mistake.

The changelog dropped on May 13th and most streamers I've spoken to either skimmed it or missed it entirely. That's a shame, because the Sound Alerts rehaul update is one of the more genuinely useful...

Back in January, Or Perry (CEO of StreamElements) made a public ask for creators to chip in to "Keep It Live". A SoftBank-backed company that's taken $111M in funding, passing the hat to the creators...

Two days ago, on May 13th, Twitch quietly did something it has resisted for years: it opened Subs, Bits, and Channel Points to every streamer on the platform, regardless of follower count or streaming...

A streamer with 800 concurrent viewers gets caught viewbotting. Under the old rules, Twitch bans them and they start a new account. Under the rules Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced on May 7, 2026, the...

Rotterdam, June 2026. Thousands of streamers, moderators, sponsors, and fans crammed into one convention centre, and Twitch dropped the full official guide on May 1st, which means the window for actua...

Kick shipped a dedicated mobile streaming app on April 27th, and the IRL streaming community has been loudly pleased about it ever since.

Twitch suspended ExtraEmily's channel earlier this month - not officially, not by platform action, but in effect, because she stepped away herself. On April 21, 2026, one of Twitch's more recognisable...

Nearly half of all live-streaming viewership on the planet is happening on TikTok right now. That number landed yesterday when Stream Hatchet dropped their Q1 2026 report - the first one to ever inclu...

Blizzard announced on April 16th that Diablo IV's upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion will have a Twitch Drops campaign, and the Diablo streaming category is about to get very, very busy.