twitch

• NASA is taking Twitch viewers into space–and maybe to the moon?
• 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

  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
• 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
• X adds Twitch to lawsuit accusing advertisers of anticompetitive practices