Riot Games will help Special Olympics host a streaming event
Riot Games is partnering with Special Olympics to help host an event on Twitch, the Special Olympics Live Stream-a-Thon. It will take place today...
OBS 23 is live: How to get better livestreams with Nvidia’s encoder
Setting up a high-quality livestream is an expensive and complicated task, but Nvidia is working to address that by partnering with popular livestreaming tool...
Twitch locks down rights to manage Team Liquid sponsorships
Twitch hosts some of the most popular video content on the internet, but it doesn’t own much of it. That’s a challenge for the...
Facebook’s esports dreams face the privacy PR nightmare
It’s no secret that Facebook’s mishandling of consumer data has landed it in hot water. This forced the social-media behemoth’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg a...
Twitch viewers watched 9.36 billion hours of content in 2018
StreamElements, a company that creates tech for streamers, released a report called “State of the Stream” that has details on Twitch and YouTube Gaming‘s...
How Epic is empowering smaller studios to harness influencer marketing
It’s tough for small studios to get attention for their games. Even as someone who plays and thinks about games a lot, I don’t...
Playgroundz: The Leisure Economy rises with mobile esports, female gamers, and influencers
Most gamers dream about being Ninja, a video gamer who became the No. 1 social “influencer” in sports — beating out Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar,...
Twitch takes a look back at great moments in livestreaming in 2018
Twitch has come a long way since it debuted in 2011 as Justin.tv. And now the company is making us feel teary with its...
Twitch esports fans are more dedicated than other esports enthusiasts
More than 60 percent of esports fans on Twitch said that they have followed competitive gaming for more than four years, according to a...
Twitch hires Revlo livestream monetization team in Toronto
Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming division has hired the team at Revlo in Toronto. Revlo created a fan engagement platform on top of Twitch that allowed...