Browsing: Creator Economy & Fan-Driven Platforms

We’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating: streamers are the celebrities of the 21st century. While many of them focus primarily on sharing gaming sessions with their audiences, others spend their streams discussing current events and a wide range of topics. Of course, some of them have particularly controversial opinions.

Four Minecraft bosses, one permadeath world, and no announced finish line. Darren “IShowSpeed” Watkins Jr and Kai Cenat go live on Friday 7 August at 5:00 PM EDT with a Hardcore marathon that only ends once the Ender Dragon, the Wither, the Elder Guardian, and the Warden are all dead. For New Zealand viewers that…

Middle East viewers are financially supporting Twitch creators at rates approaching those in the US, according to the company. This, despite Arabic-language channels attracting comparatively smaller audiences.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is AMD’s most powerful 3D V-Cache processor to date, equipped with more 3D V-Cache chips than any desktop CPU before it for an additional 128MB of performance-boosting cache. The 9950X3D2 also likely takes this technology to its current limits (more on that later). You’ll have to pay a…

With just months to go before the release of Rockstar Games’ most anticipated title this November, fans of the Grand Theft Auto series have been hanging onto any and every tidbit they can find about the game.

Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look will premiere on Netflix on August 27 at 3 PM ET. The presentation will also go live on the official Rockstar Games YouTube channel and the Grand Theft Auto VI website at 9 PM ET on the same day, giving audiences two avenues…

Player relationship and marketing platform FirstLook has launched Creators.gg to connect studios with creators of any size, rather than limiting opportunities to those with the largest audiences.

/ PR Agency: iBusinessWire Twitch’s Monetization for All update, shipped 13 May 2026, lowered the Affiliate bar from 50 followers, 7 broadcast days and 500 minutes to 25 followers, 4 broadcast days and 240 minutes in a rolling 30-day window. The fourth requirement – an average of 3 concurrent viewers – was left unchanged. Every…

Player relationship and marketing platform FirstLook has launched Creators.gg, a free platform designed to connect creators of any audience size with game studios for paid campaigns, early-access content, and in-game rewards. Creators.gg launches with IO Interactive and Brain Jar Games as initial studio partners and says more than 10,000 creators signed up during its beta…

New research finds only five of 23 major gaming companies operate as true creator platforms, with hybrid ecosystems emerging as the industry’s dominant model August 3, 2026 Prefer PocketGamer.biz on Google