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Kyle Dulay examines Collabstr’s marketplace data and explains why games marketers should rethink how they allocate budgets across YouTube and Twitch September 8, 2026 Prefer PocketGamer.biz on Google

Live streaming entered 2026 bigger, more fragmented and more competitive than ever, with three platforms — Amazon’s Twitch, the Stake-backed challenger Kick and Google’s YouTube Gaming — defining the gaming-focused corner of the market. This reference page pulls together the most reliable 2025 full-year and early-2026 figures on viewership, market share, monetisation and top creators…

Masami Kurumada, the legendary manga creator behind the global phenomenon Saint Seiya, made a public appearance this week to deliver troubling news to his followers. During a press conference, he revealed that he had fallen victim to a massive financial fraud that nearly bankrupted his company and threatened to end his career.

YouTube has clarified its advertising rules for graphic gaming violence, giving creators a defined monetization window ahead of GTA 6’s Nov 19, 2026, launch. The September 2026 update creates three practical timing zones.

The Western Hockey League is bringing its games to  YouTube this season, giving fans a free way to watch live WHL hockey after the sudden shutdown of Victory+.

Streamer Kreyg has built a custom Twitch integration for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that lets viewers spend bits to actually call CJ’s in-game phone, and it’s already gone viral with over a million views.

Twitch chat is the beating heart of live streaming culture, and its emote lexicon has grown into a language of its own that spills into Discord servers, YouTube comments and everyday internet slang. In 2026 the platform serves a global audience in the hundreds of millions while its emote catalogue has climbed past 24 million…

YouTube gaming violence rules leave room for GTA 6 videos to earn ad revenue, but creators will need to keep graphic scenes out of the opening seven seconds. The change comes ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6’s November 19 launch, giving gameplay channels a new editing rule to remember.