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If you plan to take streaming seriously, learning to network in professional environments is an essential skill. With practice, you’ll become much more comfortable putting you and your brand out into the gaming industry. There are a lot of common mistakes streamers make when asking for game keys, but don’t fret, StreamerSquare is here to…

Twitch has introduced two new features that aim to help streamers both new and old grow quicker and more efficiently. Stream Summary, which is a new way to analyse your past streams. Also Achievements, which will give you concrete goals to aim for that will help you reach Affiliate and Partner status. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmYGA3-pLkU&width=500&height=285[/embedyt] Stream Summary Steam…

Note: This article was updated on December 5th, 2019 with information from the FTC’s new online influencer publication released in November. On September 20th, 2017 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a live Q&A on Twitter for Social Media Influencers. While the FTC should definitely be commended for their effort, Twitter was seemingly a terrible…

Just in time for TwitchCon! You may be attending your first convention, or perhaps you’ve been before, but the StreamerSquare team wants to make sure you are getting the most you possibly can out of it. Conventions are by far the best way to network and forge incredible relationships with fellow content creators, developers, community…

Cheering has been a feature on Twitch since mid-2016, which allows viewers to spend a currency called Bits on Twitch Partners and Affiliates. The streamer receiving bits gets paid $0.01 per 1 bit while the consumers purchase bits at a higher rate as a revenue source for the company itself. There are a few ways…

While I was working on the Elgato StreamDeck review, I thought I should also take some time to give an overview of TipeeeStream as a whole. Elgato seemed very deliberate with their close integrations and while OBS, Twitch, and Twitter all seemed pretty obvious to me, TipeeeStream was something of an oddity in that group.…

There’s a lot of information out there on running a business. If you’ve been following our posts you know that you should decide whether your stream is a hobby or business and act accordingly. But how do you know what “act accordingly” means for a business? Here are some first, vital steps to take whether…

Congrats on finally getting your Twitch Affiliate invite! The good news is that there aren’t that many steps between you and having bits turned on. The slightly unfortunate news is that you have to do some annoying tax forms. Let’s take a peek at those and make them a little less scary. Trust me, they’re…

Since April 24th of this year, thousands of broadcasters on Twitch have been invited to join the Twitch Affiliate program and have done so with rather impressive results. Muxy.io recently looked at the data on how the Affiliate program changed cheering across Twitch and the results are impressive. While this program introduced new ways for broadcasters to…

By now you’ve most likely heard of the Twitch Affiliates program. I think it’s so cool that they’ve added it! After all, many small streamers were using other services like GameWisp and tips via PayPal that the business model was fairly clearly proven. Now you have the opportunity to participate in what Twitch has to…

Greetings readers! Expanding on my last article, it is time to take the next step for those of you who are looking at perfecting your audio. You should already have a basic unde...

After quite a bit of teasing, Elgato has announced the Stream Deck. The Stream Deck is a pad with 15 LCD keys that can be customized to control various elements of your stream....