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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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The beta tag quietly disappeared from Twitch's Channel Points redemption endpoint on June 26, 2026. No fanfare, no announcement thread that went viral, just a changelog entry that most streamers will...
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On June 23, 2026, Twitch and SoundCloud officially announced "SoundCloud Sessions," a full-day DJ event streamed live on Twitch. Not a small showcase. Not a weekend slot. An entire day of DJ sets, pla...
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The announcement dropped on June 26, 2026, and if you stream on Kick, you probably felt the ground shift a little.
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Twitch quietly dropped something genuinely useful into its changelog on June 18th, and I suspect most streamers missed it because it arrived without fanfare between two other minor API notes.
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A new VAB report dropped on June 15th, 2026, and buried inside the usual industry jargon is something that should genuinely change how you think about making money from live streaming.
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