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• Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of Highlights. They’re not happy.
• NASA is taking Twitch viewers into space–and maybe to the moon?

  NASA has a Twitch channel (with 1.3 million followers!) and has streamed there before, offering real-time peeks into things like launches and maneuvers, plus educational clips. But, as it said in a press release, this new series of streams are the first NASA events "developed specifically for the agency's Twitch platform."

  
• Is Twitch viewership at its lowest point in four years?

  Over the course of the month, the platform accumulated 1.58 billion hours of watch time--its lowest monthly total in four years. But, at the same time, Twitch also saw an uptick in new streamers joining, and an uptick in the average number of concurrent channels live at any one time.

  
• Is World of Warcraft RP Twitch’s next big thing?

  WoW has seen a resurgence on Twitch lately--and a large portion of that traffic is thanks to OnlyFangs, a streamer guild led by Sodapoppin. The guild is fully in-character, meaning that once a streamer comes in and makes their character, they're expected to roleplay the whole time they're logged in to the game, interacting with their fellow guildies/streamers.

  
• An AI VTuber is setting world records on Twitch
• The Twitch VOD situation is crazy
• 9.5 million new streamers hit “Go live” on Twitch this year
• “You have a community of creatives”: Twitch faces backlash over new AI-generated emote
• Gamers spend more time watching content than playing games. What can developers do?
• 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?
• Despite gains among its rivals, Twitch still accounts for 82% of streaming hours