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Twitch suspended ExtraEmily's channel earlier this month - not officially, not by platform action, but in effect, because she stepped away herself. On April 21, 2026, one of Twitch's more recognisable...
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Nearly half of all live-streaming viewership on the planet is happening on TikTok right now. That number landed yesterday when Stream Hatchet dropped their Q1 2026 report - the first one to ever inclu...
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Blizzard announced on April 16th that Diablo IV's upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion will have a Twitch Drops campaign, and the Diablo streaming category is about to get very, very busy.
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Three days ago, Kick and ESL Faceit Group made it official: every ESL Pro Tour event for Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 is now exclusively on Kick, starting with IEM Rio.
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Kick crossed 100 million hours watched in a single month during Q1 2026. That number, buried in the Streams Charts Q1 report released yesterday, is the kind of stat that makes you stop scrolling and g...
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Affiliates have been sitting outside the sponsored campaign window for years, watching Partners collect brand money while grinding the same hours. That changed on April 6th.
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Ten million dollars. Gone. Two sessions.
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Twitch pulled the plug on Combos today, March 31, 2026, and honestly the announcement landed with less fanfare than the feature deserved - or maybe exactly the fanfare it deserved, depending on how yo...
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Five days ago, Kick quietly pushed out one of its most significant policy updates since the platform launched.
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Three billion people watched some part of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Three billion. That's more than a third of the entire planet sitting down - at some point, in some timezone - to watch football. And...
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Twitch Drops campaigns don't announce themselves with much fanfare - they just appear, and then suddenly your viewer count is doing something you haven't seen in months.
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