James Hale

• Discord lays off several dozen people from marketing and partnerships
• Twitch says gambling stream viewership has dropped 75%

  
• Creators On The Rise: ‘Stone Maidens’ was published in 2012. Eleven years later, BookTok made it a bestseller.

  Nearly three decades ago, Lloyd Devereux Richards found himself inspired by the Midwest's dense, haunting forests. Go 60 miles south of Indianapolis, he says, and you'll find rich woodlands and deep ravines that flow with the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers down into Kentucky and Tennessee.

  
• Streamers on the Rise: Sydeon on finding fulfillment in streaming

  "I decided I had two choices," she says. "I could get a job in nursing and spend my life with a career that would make me really fulfilled and happy, or I could take a leap of faith and just see what happens in the streaming space."

  
• Creators can build big international audiences by dubbing their content in other languages. But what’s the best way to dub?
• KreekCraft signs with CAA (Exclusive)
• Ludwig and YouTube want to know: Who’s the world’s greatest gamer?
• There’s gonna be an “Ice Cream So Good” song
• Twitch’s daily watch time is going up
• Someone made a fake xQc and set it loose on Twitch. It’s gotten 11,000 followers in two weeks.
• Millionaires: One “dumb little video” made Micah & Sarah take off on TikTok. Now they have 1.2 million followers.
• Here’s how Kick plans to get profitable