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Less than a year after launch, Twitch is shutting down Combos on March 31st. We look at what went wrong, what Twitch says it learned, and what it means for the platform's Bits strategy going forward.
Twitch is testing a one-click option to gift subs to your entire live audience, YouTube's thumbnail limit increase reveals where the platform is really heading, and Kick adds a surprisingly frictionless clipping system to chat.
Twitch has quietly shipped a set of mobile streaming updates that address some of the platform's longest-standing pain points: a resizable chat overlay, picture-in-picture multitasking, and native disconnect protection.
Two major investigations published this week expose how creators are profiting from promoting gambling to their audiences, from rigged-looking win rates on crypto casinos to unlicensed betting sites pushed to millions of European viewers.
Twitch warned a creator for displaying a combined chat while multistreaming. The community called it out as ridiculous, and CEO Dan Clancy has confirmed Twitch will no longer enforce the rule.
Twitch moved creators on legacy 70% sub split contracts into the Plus Program, promising to honour their rates. But the phrase "at this time" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Twitch is experimenting with ads that appear when a viewer pauses a stream. It sounds reasonable, until you remember that almost nobody pauses a live stream.
Twitch's latest sponsorship campaign offers creators exactly nothing in return for promoting a major game launch. Riot Games has since distanced themselves from how it was presented.
Apple just dropped a massive announcement that directly attacks Adobe’s dominance in the creator space. Is it finally time to cancel those subscriptions?
Discord prepares for a massive IPO that could change the platform forever, an AI VTuber breaks the Twitch Hype Train record, and YouTube finally lets you filter Shorts out of search results.
The industry feels different entering 2026. The "growth at all costs" era is over. Platforms are cleaning up their metrics, optimizing for better ad delivery, and finally taking creator safety seriously.
It’s the final edition of the year! We’re grading my 25 predictions from January to see which streaming trends I nailed and which ones I missed completely.
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