Twitch

• “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

  As Twitch is potentially dealing with its own adpocalypse, CEO Dan Clancy just confirmed some streamers are earning less revenue because brands don't want their ads running next to content that's been flagged as political or related to other "sensitive social topics."

  
• Kai Cenat is streaming’s king of spectacle. Here’s the hits from his record-setting subathon.

  Kai Cenat just reclaimed the record for most simultaneous Twitch subscriptions and set it at a staggering 727,700--meaning that, if all those people purchased Tier 1 subs at $4.99 a pop, he made at least $1.8 million.

  
• Twitch streamer emilycc has been live for 3 years straight. Why are we just now discovering her?

  Viewers flocked from Cenat's stream to emilycc's, telling her she'd gotten a shout-out. She ended up getting in a call with Cenat and chatting with him while he was still broadcasting, and the attention helped boost her channel up to over 280,000 followers and 10,000 subscribers—a new record for 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
• Twitch is giving streamers more control over when ads run and how much revenue they make
• Some big streamers are leaving YouTube for Twitch. Does data say that’s the right move?
• Twitch is raising sub prices again. Streamers are not happy.
• The gamba meta lives on: Twitch says it’s “digging into” Counter-Strike skin gambling involving 120+ top streamers