Turn Off Audio in Games or the DMCA Will Find You on Twitch
The problems with music copyright on Twitch continue. A few days ago, the platform's technical support suggested that in order to avoid problems with licensed game tracks, you should disable audio from a given game during streams.
video games
Paul Wozniak
November 16, 2020
Streamers Forced to Remove Streams and Clips Due to Copyright
Last week, most of the streamers operating on Twitch.tv deleted all their stream recordings and clips. Such moves were caused by problems with copyrights for musical works used by the creators.
video games
Paul Wozniak
October 26, 2020
Dr. Disrespect Left Twitch Because of Money?
One of Dr Disrespect's recent streams featured words that stirred up the curiosity of fans and resulted in theories about the reason the gamer was banned on Twitch. Fans believe the reason for the conflict may have been money.
video games
Aleksandra Dziwinska
September 30, 2020
Can Twitch Plays Avoid Crashing a Dreamliner? Apparently Yes
The well-known Dutch developer Rami Ismail is hosting on Twitch a series of streams from Microsoft Flight Simulator, where he gives control over the plane to people in the chat. Interestingly, not all flights end in a crash.
video games
Milosz Szubert
September 15, 2020
Ninja Signs Exclusive Deal With Twitch
Streamer Richard „Ninja” Tyler Blevins officially announced that from now on he will only appear on Twitch.tv.
video games
Paul Wozniak
September 10, 2020
Chat's Choice Awards - Twitch Announces Its Own Awards
Twitch has announced the first edition of Chat's Choice Awards - prizes awarded by visitors to this platform. Interestingly, there will be more than one winner in each category. The community of any streamer who decides to participate in the game will be given a chance to choose their own favorites.
video games
Milosz Szubert
August 21, 2020
Streamers are Mad After Being Used by Marketers
Ogilvy marketing agency prepared for its client - Burger King fast food chain - a campaign which was based on smuggling ads into transmissions of popular streamers. A plug-in created by Streamlabs was used for this purpose, which enables text to be translated into speech and published as short, personalized messages from plegers during the stream.
video games
Bart Swiatek
August 21, 2020
Shroud, Dr. Disrespect and Ninja are Back to Streaming - How Did They Fare?
Recently, three popular streamers - Ninja, Shroud and Dr. Disrespect - have returned to live broadcasts. The audience's favourites have managed to attract a huge number of fans in front of the screens again, although the results of one of them may come as a surprise.
video games
Paul Wozniak
August 13, 2020
Shroud Returns to Twitch After the Mixer Fiasco
Popular streamer Michael „Shroud” Grzesiek informed that he is back on Twitch. Last year, he abandoned Amazon's platform in favor of Microsoft's competitive service, which eventually closed down a few months ago.
video games
Bart Swiatek
August 12, 2020
Ninja Returns to Twitch
Today, for the first time since the shutdown of Mixer, popular streamer Richard „Ninja” Tyler Blevins started streaming on Twitch.
video games
Paul Wozniak
August 5, 2020
Mysterious Disappearance of Dr. Disrespect Remains Unexplained [Updated]
It's been two weeks since Dr. Disrespect's mysterious ban on Twitch and we still don't know what's going on. The popular streamer is also silent on his other social media, which gives rise to much speculation.
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Darius Matusiak
July 16, 2020
U.S. Army Recruits Teenagers on Twitch and Goes Ban-happy About It
The official esports team of the US Army bans access to Twitch chat en masse. All because of actions read by many as „treacherous” recruitment tactics.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
July 16, 2020
Dr. Disrespect's Animated Gifts are Being Removed
Animated gifts presenting Dr. Disrespect disappeared from GIPHY. This is another puzzling situation in recent days related to the streamer, who was recently banned by Twitch.
video games
Adrian Werner
July 1, 2020
Dr. Disrespect Permanently Banned on Twitch [Updated]
Yesterday, one of the more popular Twitch streamers - Dr. Disrespect - was permanently banned on the platform. There are many mysteries and controversies surrounding the ban.
video games
Paul Wozniak
June 28, 2020
Streamers Accused of Sexual Harassment, Twitch Issues a Statement
This weekend, a group including Twitch streamers, youtubers and people associated with the video game industry were accused of sexual harassment and assault. The charges were brought by many women against various well-known personalities. Twitch issued a statement in this case.
video games
Paul Wozniak
June 22, 2020
Twitch is Fed Up With Valorant Key Farm, Changes the Rules
The controversial practices of Twitch streamers have led to the introduction of new rules on so-called „drops” on the platform. From now on, adding the possibility of e.g. access to Valorant's tests while transmitting replays will have considerable consequences.
video games
Paul Wozniak
April 29, 2020
Controversy Over Valorant Streams, Twitch Frenzy Continues
After the second week of Valorant's closed beta, the game still boasts huge Twitch coverage. This is due to new streamer practices and the controversial way of granting access to tests.
video games
Paul Wozniak
April 22, 2020
Billions of Hours on Twitch - Streaming Boom During the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the number of people streaming on Twitch to exceed 5 million. As for the average number of viewers, it reached 2.5 million.
video games
Milosz Szubert
April 20, 2020
No More Nudity on Twitch. Website Introduces New Rules
Twitch has updated the rules on nudity and pornography on streams. The new recommendations are more detailed, and not following them will result in the deletion of content or blocking your account.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
April 8, 2020
Valorant Helped Twitch Break a Record
Yesterday, Twitch broke a historical record. The launch of Valorant's closed beta tests attracted more than 1.7 million viewers. This was enough for the total number of people watching streams on the platform to exceed 4 million.
video games
Paul Wozniak
April 8, 2020