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Twitch Hacked - Leak Reveals Streamer Earnings and Plan to Compete With Steam
An anonymous hacker leaked the source code of Twitch. Among the 125 GB of data were also the earnings of major streamers using the service. The amounts are staggering.
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Hubert Sledziewski
October 6, 2021
New World Twitch Drops - Things to Remember and How to Get Free Rewards
New World fans can earn free rewards on Twitch. However, they need to keep in mind a few rules that are crucial. Drops can be earned until October 11.
video games
Michal Ciezadlik
September 30, 2021
Twitch Adjusts Subscription Prices to Match Earnings in Different Countries
Twitch subscription price differentiation is gaining momentum. After tests in Mexico and Turkey, the changes gradually extend to other countries.
hardware & software
Konrad Sarzynski
July 30, 2021
Twitch With New New Streaming Record and Scandals in the Background
Twitch set another record in May in the number of watched hours of streams. The platform grows in strength despite the controversies surrounding its functioning.
video games
Angelika Kaldus
June 21, 2021
Warzone Cheater Streams and Tells Players to „Find Another Game”
We have yet another example of just how large the scale of cheating is in Call of Duty: Warzone. During a game, a streamer openly admitted that he was cheating, and told his viewers to „find another game”.
video games
Michal Ciezadlik
June 11, 2021
GTA 5 Dethrones LoL as Most-watched Video Game
Thanks to RP mods, Grand Theft Auto 5 has climbed to number one on the list of most-watched games on streaming services this year.
video games
Adrian Werner
April 8, 2021
Fortnite Helped Break Twitch Record
A new skin in Fortnite combined with a popular streamer gave unexpected results in term of viewership on Twitch. A new record for the number of people following the broadcast simultaneously was broken.
video games
Karol Laska
January 12, 2021
Rust Breaks Another Record on Steam While Still Trending on Twitch
Rust's recent activity record lasted only a few days. The new one was set last night. For the first time over 200,000 people were playing the game on Steam.
video games
Adrian Werner
January 8, 2021
Rust Reaches New All-time Highs on Twitch and Steam
Rust is currently experiencing a golden age. The game has broken the threshold of a million viewers on Twitch and set a new activity record on Steam.
video games
Adrian Werner
January 5, 2021
Twitch Will Ban Use of „Simp” and „Incel” as Insults
From new year on, Twitch will crack down on sexual insults seriously. The new rules will include a ban on the use of words such as „simp”, „incel”, „virgin” etc. in this context.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
December 17, 2020
Unboxing of Pokemon Booster Packs Becomes a Hit on Twitch
Popular streamer Sodappopin said that the latest hot trend on Twitch - opening Pokemon card booster packs - is pretty much gambling and a bad example for the younger audience.
video games
Paul Wozniak
November 23, 2020
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