Twitch

• Is World of Warcraft RP Twitch’s next big thing?
• An AI VTuber is setting world records on Twitch

  Vedal originally created Neurosama back in 2018 as a bot that would play the rhythm game osu!. They recently revamped her as a full-fledged VTuber with her own cutesy animated model. Basically, at her bones, Neurosama is an advanced chatbot that can play games like Minecraft and converse with viewers.

  
• The Twitch VOD situation is crazy

  Moistcr1tikal recently posted a video breaking down his exact earnings from his best-performing streams on both Twitch and YouTube, and the difference is staggering. He made $11,700 from his best-performing Twitch stream (where he watched his esports team win the Rocket League Spring Major), and $84,000 from his best-performing YouTube stream (where he played Bethesda's most recent game, Starfield).

  
• 9.5 million new streamers hit “Go live” on Twitch this year

  According to Twitch, 9.51 million new streamers broadcasted on its platform for the first time in 2024. To put that in context, Twitch on average sees 7.3 million individual streamers go live per month, per Twitch Tracker. And though, clearly, not all those first-time streamers have continued on to be regular broadcasters, it's pretty impressive that Twitch's potential pool of creators grew that much in just a year.

  
• “You have a community of creatives”: Twitch faces backlash over new AI-generated emote
• Twitch CEO confirms political streamers are losing revenue as brands like AT&T, JPMorgan Chase, and Dunkin’ pull ads
• Kai Cenat is streaming’s king of spectacle. Here’s the hits from his record-setting subathon.
• Twitch streamer emilycc has been live for 3 years straight. Why are we just now discovering her?
• Twitch wants to be a “house of brands” that packages streamers (and their communities) for ad sales
• Twitch just added another path to become Partner. Will it let established streamers help up-and-comers?
• Wait, Twitch licenses emojis?
• Twitch is finally bringing merged chats to multi-creator streams