Browsing: Creator Economy & Fan-Driven Platforms

I’ve been streaming online in one form or another for many years. I can still remember Twitch when it was called Justin.tv, broadcasting on Mixer, and even streaming VR games on Facebook Gaming. And while I’m always experimenting with the more oddball alternative platforms to stream on, I’ve been in the game a long time.

Talented independent comic creator Kate Ashwin recently announced plans to end her long-running, ever entertaining web comic Widdershins, which she has been publishing for 15 years, so it seemed like a good time to catch up…

We’ve loved seeing more and more creators going live in Dual Format – streaming in horizontal and vertical formats at the same time to reach more viewers on mobile and desktop in one go. To celebrate our Dual Format community, we’re running a limited-time Bonus Gift Sub Matching promotion exclusively for Dual Format streams.

When video games bring people together… The video game event, the charity gaming spectacle, returns from September 3 to 6, 2026 for one final edition that promises to be exceptional! For three days, more than 50 streamers will be online on Twitch to raise funds for several charities. Will they manage to surpass last year’s…

For years, the platform has been at the center of influencer culture, gaming trends, internet humor, and online communities to the point where it feels almost inseparable from modern internet culture itself. For generations that grew up online, YouTube has a certain nostalgia attached to it; almost everyone has had at least one favorite YouTuber…

Maono, the global best-selling Internet microphone brand trusted by more than 6 million users, is launching limited-time August savings on its P Series Hybrid Audio Interfaces.

Conservative commentator Scott Jennings is facing a legal threat over a bogus racism claim made against a popular left-wing streamer.

Twitch has confirmed that content uploaded by streamers can be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The policycovers streams, stream chats, VODs, Clips, Highlights, and text and images on channels. However, creators must actively opt out if they do not want their content to be used for future training.

Streamers who have spent years building their channels — the VODs, the late-night marathons, the chat chaos, the clips the community clipped and re-clipped — may be surprised to learn that archive could reportedly be feeding Amazon’s AI pipeline. Twitch has added a setting called “Training for Generative AI“ that lets you opt out of…

Twitch has been criticised by users after it emerged the popular streaming platform allowed their content to be used to train Amazon’s AI models.