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In May I wrote that StreamElements had found a partner and wouldn't say who it was. Replies on that announcement were turned off, and I made the point that you don't turn replies off on good news.
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The bundle era isn't coming. It's already here, and it quietly reshuffled how millions of people decide where to watch things.
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Twitch rolled out its first proper parental controls suite on July 22, 2026, and it's a bigger deal than the quiet announcement made it look.
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Tuesday's OBS 32.2 release dropped quietly on GitHub, as they always do, and I nearly scrolled past it. Then I saw "redesigned Add Source menu" and actually stopped.
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GIF support in Twitch chat has existed for years through extensions and third-party overlays, but until July 17, 2026, the IRC tag documentation treated them as invisible. Bots couldn't see them. Auto...
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I once spent an entire stream manually timing out a viewer who was spamming the letter "E" in chat. My mods were asleep (3am, fair enough) and my bot was, for reasons I still don't fully understand, i...
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Kick's bot ecosystem is about three years behind Twitch's. That's not a criticism - it's just what happens when a platform grows faster than the tooling around it can keep up. On Twitch, you've got a...
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Six Twitch bots sit open in my browser right now, each one promising to be the one that finally sorts out my chat. I've been testing them all week, and I have opinions. Some of them are even correct.
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The Home Run Derby on July 13th pulled in a crowd that, six months ago, would have been sitting in front of ESPN. Netflix streamed it. Not a recorded highlight package, not a condensed replay with ads...
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Forty-five games. Two weeks. A firehose of new viewers landing on streams they've never watched before, staying just long enough to earn their drop and then... either leaving or sticking around. Which...
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Kick just put $100,000 on the table for PUBG: Battlegrounds players, and most streamers will scroll past it, assume it's for someone else, and go back to their usual schedule.
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Kai Cenat, the most-subscribed streamer on Twitch, announced on July 4th that he's done with platform exclusivity. He'll now stream simultaneously on Twitch and YouTube.
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