Twitch reveals official channel raids and new ways to make money

The annual TwitchCon fan event for livestreamers and their fans is happening right now in Long Beach, California,, and Amazon’s video platform told its assembled audience about some new features it is rolling out.

As part of a keynote presentation, Twitch chief executive Emmett Shear and director of programming Marcus “DjWheat” Graham talked about how the service will change in the future. Some new tools will help broadcasters better understand their audiences and use them to help grow other channels. Other features will gamify the Twitch Partner process. The company is doing all of this to grow both its total audience size as well as how engaged that audience is.