streamers and influencers Latest news (3)

Paul Wozniak, 23 October 2019, 13:02

One of the most popular streamers, Dr. DisRespect, told us why it doesn't pay off to return being a gamedev. The reason is trivially simple - earnings. Tens of thousands of dollars in payouts for working on Call from Duty: Advanced Warfare is ridiculously small compared to average current streamer income.

Julia Dragovic, 22 October 2019, 12:27

The popular youtuber PewDiePie was banned in China for showing in his film the (in)famous meme comparing secretary Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh.

Paul Wozniak, 28 August 2019, 12:51

The most popular Fortnite streamer has announced that he is starting cooperation with the sports brand Adidas. We haven't learned the details of this collaboration yet, but soon we can expect the first products from streamer's collection.

Konrad Serafinski, 25 August 2019, 19:28

PewDiePie became the first solo creator to have 100 million YouTube subscribers. This result was achieved by only one more channel, which even managed to beat the Pewds to reaching this number.

Barth Faryna, 13 August 2019, 12:41

Kyle „Bugha” Giersdorf, a teenager who won 3 million dollars in the Fortnite World Cup last month, was a victim of the so-called „swatting”. When he was broadcasting live, his father entered his room and informed him that there was an armed SWAT unit in front of the house.

Paul Wozniak, 12 August 2019, 14:13

Ninjy's old Twitch profile was used to promote the most popular live streams. Unfortunately, latest night a channel broadcasting pornographic content was very popular and thus appeared in the proposals on the streamer's website.

Konrad Serafinski, 12 August 2019, 11:59

YouTuber Mitten Squad has set himself the challenge of completing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim using only a torch. The task wasn't the easiest one, but in the end the player's will prevailed.

Konrad Serafinski, 10 August 2019, 22:49

Discord is about to introduce a new feature. It will be Go Live, enabling us to broadcast our games directly to a group of friends. This service is similar to Share Play on PlayStation 4.

Julia Dragovic, 08 August 2019, 15:07

The still unconfirmed visit of Take-Two Interactive's „unofficial representatives” to youtuber SupMatto's home is related to the company's confirmed ten-month-long investigation into leaks of information about the game.

Julia Dragovic, 07 August 2019, 17:07

SupMatto, a youtuber associated with the Borderlands series, is suspending his career after a visit by detectives reportedly employed by Take-Two Interactive (owner of 2K Games). After revealing the leaks, his life on the Internet has become much more... uphill, to put it mildly.

Adrian Werner, 05 August 2019, 15:58

Ninja has reasons to be satisfied. His first day on Mixer proved to be very successful and the stream was more popular than his latest Twitch broadcasts.

Adrian Werner, 02 August 2019, 12:17

Ninja, Twitch's biggest star, has been bought by Microsoft and will now be streaming exclusively to Mixer.

Milosz Szubert, 16 July 2019, 15:46

David Cage of Quantic Dream and Josef Fares of Hazelight Studios noticed that streams and gameplays showing complete playthrough of Detroit: Become Human and A Way Out actually helped them sell more copies. Players are looking for unique experiences.

Jacob Blazewicz, 15 July 2019, 23:49

Streamlabs has published a report on the health of game streaming platforms. Twitch remained the undisputed market leader in the second quarter, but fared off slightly worse than in the previous months.

Julia Dragovic, 26 June 2019, 23:35

Riot Games has published a ranking of its closed beta tests of Teamfight Tactics, the new mode for League of Legends. The first place went to a girl – streamer going by the name Hafu. It would seem a reason for her to be overjoyed. And yet...

Bart Swiatek, 21 May 2019, 15:24

The Wall Street Journal took a closer look at the earnings of the most popular streamers. Some of them are able to earn more than $50,000 for an hour of playing a new production.

Adrian Werner, 03 May 2019, 01:39

March was a great success for the Grand Theft Auto V on Twitch. The popularity of the game has exploded, and this is due to the servers with GTA 5 RP mods, especially NoPixel.

Bart Swiatek, 23 April 2019, 16:09

After a huge success in February, Apex Legends gradually stops enjoying the interest of streamers and viewers. The number of followers is now ten times lower than at the peak of the title's popularity.

Michael Kulakowski, 12 April 2019, 22:43

Thousands of players witnessed a concert in Grand Theft Auto V, organized by a Twitch streamer known as MikeTheBard. The author of the event sang many classical songs live to guitar accompaniment.

Bart Swiatek, 15 March 2019, 01:03

According to Reuters, Electronic Arts has paid a streamer, Tyler "Ninja" Belvins, one million dollars for promoting the battle royale shooter Apex Legends. The publisher confirms that it did pay some content creators during a short promo action.

Frozen, 21 February 2019, 14:56

A recent survey shows that a large part of Tyler "Ninja" Blevins' audience consists of people, who subscribe his channel on multiple sites. This means that streamer's reach is in fact considerably smaller than assumed.

Bart Swiatek, 16 January 2019, 00:17

Sergey Galyonkin, the director responsible for preparing the Epic Games Store's publishing strategy, presented a lot of information about the backstage of the platform.

Adrian Werner, 14 January 2019, 14:21

During a recent broadcast on Twitch, a Fortnite streamer received $75,000, which is a record sum in the history of the site.

Frozen, 10 December 2018, 13:31

A Twitch user has discovered what are the consequences of breaking an NDA. Streaming a video from the closed tests of Anthem cost him his entire Origin library.