In an uprising move, Justin.tv and Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear has announced that he has stepped down from being the CEO of Twitch in days that the first commercially viable gaming streaming network dominance is challenged in every corner. After a 16 year career and living all evolution from Justin.tv to Twitch, Emmett Shear has announced that he is being succeeded by Twitch President Dan Clancy as CEO of Twitch. Shear claims that he wanted to focus more time with his family and finally...

In a strange development during a new era on YouTube where gaming and content streaming have taken new highs as YouTube has become a definite rival to Twitch, Google video streaming subsidiary has announced a big change. Susan Wojcicki will be stepping out of being CEO of YouTube after 9 years dealing with trends and changes of the Internet. After initially announced internally, Wocjicki acknowledged that her reason behind her exit weighs more on focusing on her personal life and family, as...

It was just last year that AMD made a move that surprised many gamers and was giving the Ryzen 7 5800X a taste of Ryzen 9’s 3D V-Cache and for now 2022’s Zen 4 generation, they are not waiting for their 2nd year to receive them. The Zen 4 family is still not a half a year old and AMD already gave Ryzen 7 and 9 their respective 3D V-Cache capacity. The 16-core 32-thread 7950X3D at $699 and the 12-core 24-thread Ryzen 9 7900X3D that weighs in at $599. The eight-core, 16-thread...

Part of content creation has increasingly included the need to add Discord as part of your way to contact or be in touch with your community and it is no longer for power users or gaming companies, Discord has become a good access for content creators. More evidence builded in as Discord confirmed that their monetization program has been extended to individuals that have built a community within Discord and not being forced to be an organization itself. “Starting today, we’re...

Pretty much, independent developers have to take the lead on the fight of toxicity and bad people within Twitch and while the Amazon streaming subsidiary have done some effort, this is a first big one. Twitch announced Shield Mode, which is kind of a protection that streamers and their mods can activate in real-time when a hate raid is occurring. Shield Mode gives you a set of settings that will ban chatters using a specific word or phrase or prohibit first-time chatters from speaking at all...

Once again it is a new time to bring video games to kids in hospital care and contribute for them having a great time while dealing with their illness and give some nice time with their family in the process thanks to the efforts of Gamers Outreach. This time, the Spooktacular Streamathon that runned this past weekend with the goal of raising funds for manufacturing at least 100+ GO Karts, the effort included many streamers, gamers and org. Particularly, EasternMediaGG kicked things off this...

These past few days have been quite interesting, including how many new features Twitch announced to be implementing and testing just days later after its CEO justified the reduction of the streamer payout forumal, even to big streamers, because “a network of its side is hard to maintain”. But not focusing on that, but on what is Elevated Chat, a new feature that is not officially being deployed but tested with viewers that already have the capacity. A TLDR, Eveletated Chat is...

If you want to ask me how I can describe the year 2022 for Twitch, honestly I will say that it has been a challenging and semi self-destructing year as Twitch is experimenting with its own environment. With this there are some new things we learned that Twitch has been working on and the most positive one is the usage of /shoutout as a social tool. In an easy explanation, you as a streamer can tell your audience to make an official follow and have them checkout another colleague streamer by...

While Twitch is practically no longer able to control how big it is, that now needs to formulate revenue split to content creators, YouTube has been rising on getting the attention of both gamers and content creators, but it is more TikTok that needs to monitor this. YouTube, Google’s video streaming subsidiary, has announced this week that a new ad revenue share formula will give the content creator a 45% of ad sales thanks to its content. Obviously, this move is to appeal more TikTok...

I would like to say that the title is a little bit clickbait but as you read, you will see that is not the case and yet again, Twitch is in the spotlight not for one but for two situations and this is what happened in chronological order. Twitch lay down limitation to gambling content Starting next month, streamers will be banned from running gambling content from websites as Stake.com, Rollbit.com, Duelbits.com and Roobet.com and more to be added over time. This is in response to the...

While it has been a great trend of improvement by Twitch, maybe the trend ended with the Twitch Partners able to stream elsewhere after 24 hours of their initial content on Twitch and not too many are happy about it. Twitch updated their FAQ today that includes the confirmation of the October 3th's Host mode removal. And it is exactly what it means, Host mode and Chat command /host and the Autohost options will be removed forever from Twitch. According to Amazon's streaming network, the...

Despite Facebook's front against Twitch and YouTube for gaming streaming supremacy (and the only network offering 100% cut to streamers of ad revenue until 2023), not everything is going well with Facebook Gaming. This will apply to the iOS and Android mobile client (NOT THE SERVICE) as Meta confirmed that the app will no longer be supported, will be retired from both Google Play Store and App Store and existing installations will no longer connect. Strangely, I haven't received the previous...