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Amazon’s Twitch reinstates Trump account three years after suspension over Jan. 6 violence

Amazon-owned Twitch has reinstated the account of Donald Trump, three years after the former president was suspended indefinitely by the… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch, Prime Video, MGM Studios units lay off hundreds

Layoffs are hitting Amazon’s entertainment businesses. Twitch, the industry-leading livestreaming platform Amazon acquired in 2014, is cutting more than 500… Read More

Fred Hutch partners with video game streamers to raise money, fight medical disinformation

In an effort to fight online medical disinformation and raise money for research, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is tapping… Read More

Livestreaming report: Twitch audience numbers drop in February, but it remains market leader

Amazon’s livestreaming platform Twitch is still the uncontested leader in its field, with millions of hours watched so far in… Read More

Twitch cuts 400 jobs as part of Amazon’s latest layoffs

Twitch announced on Monday that it would lay off “just over 400 people,” part of a new round of layoffs… Read More

SOBA, a Twitch streamer community in Seattle, reboots vision and programming

As live events start coming back after a pandemic-induced hiatus, one of the major organizations in Seattle’s local livestreaming scene… Read More

Amazon’s Luna game streaming service opens to all users, adds new channels

Amazon Games announced that its cloud-based game streaming platform Luna is officially out of beta, and is now available to… Read More

Microsoft brings Amazon’s Twitch back to the Xbox dashboard

Microsoft’s Xbox department announced on Wednesday that Xbox users can once again stream their gameplay directly from their consoles to… Read More

Livestreaming report: ‘New World’ hits top 5 on Twitch and ‘virtual YouTubers’ on the rise

Twitch’s audience numbers have begun to tick back up now that summer’s over; “virtual YouTubers” are pulling in surprisingly big… Read More

Twitch got e-vandalized overnight with photos of Jeff Bezos amid fallout from data breach

If you were using the web version of Twitch early Friday morning, you might’ve gotten the chance to see it… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch hit with major breach of source code, security tools, streamer payouts, and more

The Amazon-owned livestreaming network Twitch has confirmed that it’s been hacked, in what one BBC analyst called “the biggest leak… Read More

Here’s how the #ADayOffTwitch strike impacted viewer hours on Amazon-owned Twitch

Sept. 1 saw a day-long strike by some of the most popular streamers on Twitch, and according to numbers released… Read More

Livestreaming report: Amazon’s ‘New World’ gains attention as gamers flock to closed beta

Twitch’s growth rate has been slowed but not eliminated in the summer months; Facebook Gaming continues to grow its share… Read More

Tech Moves: Twitch names CTO; Highspot adds board member; Apptio promotes sales leader

— Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer… Read More

Livestreaming report: The sudden rise of sleep streaming; GTA role-playing; Twitch keeps growing

Twitch hit another viewership record last month, buoyed by hot content like watching people sleep and a roleplaying mod for… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch updates policies to address ‘severe off-service misconduct’

Twitch users may now face punitive measures by the service for actions that occurred offline, on other platforms, or before… Read More

Livestreaming market report: Women increase their presence on Twitch, and everyone’s playing chess

Last year was transformative for the international livestreaming scene, with Mixer bowing out, Twitch’s meteoric rise, and the continued growth… Read More

AOC uses Amazon’s Twitch again, this time to talk Robinhood and GameStop

Editor’s note: Post updated with recap of the Twitch stream below. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian replaced Chamath Palihapitiya. Rep. Alexandria… Read More

How the COVID-19 relief bill could change the future of game livestreaming in the U.S.

U.S. livestreamers may see major changes to their business model as a result of legislation in Congress’s latest COVID-19 relief… Read More

Livestreaming market report: Twitch keeps setting records and ‘Just Chatting’ continues rapid growth

In 2020, the international livestreaming scene has been a lifeline for millions of people who’d otherwise have gone stir-crazy while… Read More

AOC returns to Twitch, playing more ‘Among Us’ with Jagmeet Singh, xQc, DisguisedToast, and more

U.S. Rep. Alexandria “AOC” Ocasio-Cortez returned to Twitch on Friday night for a 5-and-a-half-hour broadcast, where she played the interactive… Read More

Tech Moves: New Seattle Metro Chamber CEO; Salesforce’s data chief joins Microsoft; and more

— The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce announced Rachel Smith as the business association’s new CEO. She starts in January.… Read More

Twitch sets audience record in October as pandemic continues to fuel livestreaming growth

Pandemic life continues to spur the livestreaming audience to new heights, with Twitch setting an all-time audience record in October,… Read More

Follow-up: After AOC’s Twitch stream, ‘Among Us’ hit with massive pro-Trump spam attack

Among Us, the viral hit PC and mobile murder mystery game, has come under attack from a particularly vicious spambot.… Read More

AOC helps set Twitch record for ‘Among Us,’ the viral game developed by a tiny Seattle-area studio

As part of a plan to encourage voting in the November election, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went live on… Read More

Streaming report: Twitch inherits Mixer’s streamers, now has 91% of all content produced

Microsoft abruptly shutting down Mixer back in June has ended up as a boon for Amazon’s Twitch platform. That’s according… Read More

All aboard the Twitch train: Biden campaign using Amazon platform for stream of whistle-stop tour

If you live in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Joe Biden is coming to a town near you via train. And you… Read More

Esports star ‘Ninja’ is back on Amazon’s Twitch months after Microsoft’s Mixer shut down

Twitch’s biggest streaming star is back. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the professional gamer who jumped from the Amazon-owned platform last year… Read More

Amazon Music now links with Twitch to show artists’ live streaming performances

Musicians relying on digital streaming to connect with fans during the pandemic have another option to do so thanks to… Read More