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Back when it was announced that Twitch and Teespring would be parting ways, Teespring revealed they would be doing a TwitchCon package giveaway. On Wednesday, they officially released the details of how to enter the contest which begins on July 24th. Three lucky winners will receive a ticket to TwitchCon, including free airfare and lodging! As with…

The Elgato Stream Deck has been out for a few weeks now and I’ve had a lot time to of try it. I was initially pretty skeptical of a device like the Stream Deck since the concept of a control pad for your stream isn’t too unheard of but Elgato has made a device with…

Streamlabs updated their dashboard today to make it more useful for streamers. As they mention in the update, streamers generally used the “Recent Events” panel more so they made it more prominent on the dashboard. There is some at-a-glance data you can refer to but if you want to dig into more stats, Streamlabs improved…

Dauntless, the upcoming Free to play Co-op Monster Hunter has now opened up applications for their Partner Program! This game is shaping up to have all the elements of a good stream game. Loot, co-op shenanigans, and epic fights. How to Sign up? To sign up for the program, you can apply through this Google…

Twitch announced last week that their merchandising partnership with Teespring is ending as of July 24th. What does that mean for Partners and their shirt campaigns? Mainly you’ll no longer be able to connect your Teespring account to your Twitch Dashboard or offer Twitch branded campaigns. What’s Changing? All Twitch limited-time campaigns will come to…

Listening to music while playing games is likely a common combination for many of us. Especially as more and more games have time-consuming, non-narrative intensive tasks like collecting x animal pelts or exploring this region or walking to that place. Whatever the case may be, playing music can be a nice way to take an…

The moment many of you have been waiting for is here! Twitch has just announced that Twitch Affiliates will be getting their own shiny sub buttons this week. If you’re an Affiliate, what can you expect? All levels of subscription will be available for your viewers: $4.99, $9.99, and $24.99 per month. Amazon users will…

Last week, BraneBot released their 1.5 update and with it a bunch of changes and new features. Redesigning the back-end data systems has been a major priority and this patch marks the completion of the first step. With it, they’ve also managed to fit a lot of quality-of-life improvements into this recent patch. Channel currency now…

Twitch is giving away a special VIP TwitchCon package to one lucky winner every week which includes two tickets to TwitchCon, access (for two) to a VIP mixer at the convention, and a bag of miscellaneous Twitch swag! Two runners up will also receive a Twitch swag bag. The contest will run weekly through September…

XSplit has released the latest update to both Broadcaster and Gamecaster. For those that were using the PTR for XSplit, this update is mostly pushing many of those “beta” features to the current public version of XSplit. XSplit highlights the major changes in their update video. One of the first things that stands out in…

Viewers can buy the Humble Bundle E3 2017 Digital Ticket directly from Partner and Affiliate channels. Not only is this a great way to raise funds for the ESA Foundation but also helps support some of your favourite broadcasters. In addition to all the goodies you’ll receive, you also get two Twitch Crates as an added bonus!…

If you haven’t logged into your Twitch Stats page in a while, now would be the time to do so. Twitch just announced on their blog a pretty impressive update to everyone’s stats with more fixes and functionality yet to come. Previously the stats page has been hard to read, inaccurate, or just not useful for…