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Twitch announced the launch of Twitch Prime going global today, making it available in over 200 countries and territories. While still unavailable in Mexico, India, Japan, China and embargoed territories, this is huge for a lot of Twitch viewers. To mark the momentous occasion, Twitch has partnered with PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS to offer up exclusive Twitch-themed…

Twitch has been trying to develop ways for broadcasters to supplement their regular live broadcasts with other kinds of content. Twitch added playlists for certain users to have content available on their channels when they were live and some streamers just manually re-streamed their previous casts but Twitch has decided to take that into their…

Earlier this month Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) released it’s 19.0 update along with several hotfix patches. In addition to changes and bug fixes across the board, there were some OS specific updates as well. So What’s New? One of the coolest additions to OBS is an auto-configuration wizard. This feature attempts to run a series of tests to…

This week Twitch began beta testing some features which introduce new ways to interact across the platform. Twitch has partnered with a number of developers (such as Muxy and StreamLabs) to provide interactive integrations ranging from game specific overlays to mini-games. Broadcasters can easily manage which features they enable allowing for complete control over the experience they provide.…

Revlo announced recently that they are shutting down their service. Revlo is a service that tracks viewer loyalty via a bot in your channel. The longer a person watches, the more channel currency they get to spend on various things a broadcaster can choose to offer. On their blog, Revlo briefly discussed that they were unfortunately unable…

About a year and a half ago, Beam.pro opened its doors to the public with a new streaming platform that offered sub zero latency and interactive features that no one has ever attempted. The success followed the ambition when, later that year, Microsoft acquired Beam. Having a big name behind the platform helped to boost…

It’s hard to believe that Twitch Clips has been around already for a year. Twitch launched the feature on May 25, 2016 and since then the community has created over 70 million Clips and just over to 2.4 million hours of watch time. Some casters utilizing Clips have even seen an increase in their follower count by…

Once upon a time, GameWisp had this fantastic idea to offer the services of a subscribe button to all streamers, allowing content creators to monetize their creations from the start. As GameWisp continues to grow, changes need to be made to keep the cash out system a simple and gratifying process. You can now cash out…

The pillar of streaming and making content on the internet for me is the presence and quality of capture cards. I remember, years ago now, using my first capture card and it wasn’t even really designed for gaming in the first place. After watching Call of Duty montages and gameplay commentary, however, I wanted to…

Late last week Twitch officially rolled out AutoMod 2.0: The Personalization Update and with it, three new features. This update looks to give broadcasters even more control over their chat but in some cases has actually led to a more restrictive experience. Upgraded Globally Banned Words List The Globally Banned Words list has been merged with…

Extra Life recently put out the call for streamers to become part of the official Extra Life Stream Team and broadcast on the Extra Life channel. As opposed to participating in an Extra Life event and broadcasting on your own channel, if you join the stream team, you’ll be broadcasting for a period of time…

One of the biggest problems that plagues new or smaller streamers is exposure. It’s hard to get noticed and even harder to bring a constant flow of viewers into your channel, despite how hard you work on it. It can honestly tear down even the strongest of streamers. Streamlabs wants to help aid that issue with…