Tag: twitch

Tyler Blevins (aka Ninja) is the gamer who’s been attracting big audiences on Twitch and YouTube alike with his videos playing the game Fortnite. Oh, and he’s also the chap who helped Drake and Marshmello clamber on to...

Amazon’s live-video platform Twitch wants to help people build audiences on their channels. It has just launched a site called Twitch Creator Camp, taking a leaf out of YouTube’s playbook (or, indeed, its actual ‘Playbook’...

A number of popular gaming stars on video-streaming platform Twitch were temporarily banned, after their channels received DMCA strikes for using copyrighted music. xQc, Sinatraa, Daequan, Alfie, Avxry, KittyPlays, Pokelawls,...

This week’s lead feature looks at podcasting, and its relevance to labels and artists. With an estimated 484 million podcast listeners worldwide at the end of 2017, can the format help bring back some of the context to...

We were starting to wonder why Amazon’s Twitch live-video platform hadn’t published its usual year-end review of its stats. It turns out the company was turning the annual post into a comic strip. Among the key stats...

From Facebook Live and Twitch to apps like YouNow and Live.ly, livestreaming video is a burgeoning medium for individual creators and media brands alike. And music? A panel at Music Ally’s Sandbox Summit conference in...

Lead: mixtapes have long been used in hip-hop, often when acts are starting out and wanting to create a buzz around themselves. Now they are becoming more common as major acts use them as an embellishment to an existing...

Live-streamers on Twitch have been able to make money from their broadcasts by joining the service’s ‘Partner Program’. Now it’s launching a separate tier for others. “Introducing the Twitch Affiliate Program,...

Kasabian are the latest band to work with Amazon on a digital marketing campaign, and in their case, Amazon’s live-video subsidiary Twitch is playing a major role. Yesterday, the band visited Twitch’s studios in London...

Amazon’s live video-streaming service Twitch is getting into e-commerce for its most important content category. “Twitch has always been the best place to watch, share, and play games. Soon, it will be the best place...

YouNow, Live.ly, Live.me… the new live-streaming platforms keep coming, and that’s without mentioning the bigger guns like Twitch, Periscope and Facebook Live. How much room is there for new entrants? Startup Busker is...

YouTube channel No Copyright Sounds, which provides copyright-free music for gamers to use in their videos, has been a big under-the-radar success – although spawning Alan Walker’s ‘Faded’ brought it to wider attention....