AI Vtuber /Vedal987 has broken into the Top 10 most-subscribed channels of all time on Twitch, currently at #8.

Statistically, January tends to be one of the best months for Twitch viewership. January vs December + Month CCV Ranking: 2025: +5.5% 1st 2024: +6.6% 1st 2023: +11.5% 2nd 2022: +15.5% 2nd 2021: +15.8% 5th 2020: +14.6% Last (Early Pandemic) 2019: +12.2% 4th

Good morning, and Happy New Year to you all! I hope you've all had a safe and fun New Year's Eve - and are ready to take on 2026! What do you have planned for this year as creators?

@rayapollo.bsky.social Happy Birthday Ray!!

At the beginning of 2025, I made 14 Twitch Predictions... well, it's time to find out how accurate I was and review them together! youtu.be/oaHeRMMJehQ

I'm always curious! Anyone get any streamer gear as a gift, or something you treated yourself to? I bought myself a fancy camera lens!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a nice day whether celebrating with family, friends, pets or just solo! ☃️

Final Results for the new Global Twitch Hype Train Record: Level 122 Complete. 99% towards completing Level 123. Total Amount: 118,989 Subs + 1,000,073 Bits.

Vtuber/AI creator /vedal987 just broke the Global Twitch Hype Train record - a record they set earlier this year.

Who are the Top 20 Twitch Streamers of All Time by Accrued Watch Hours? Data via SullyGnome from August 2015 to November 2025. Individual creators only. Brand Partner: @streamlabs.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJwP...

Last newsletter of the year! 🪓 Lead Mod Role 💸 TikTok Deal Done? 🎮 Nvidia Gaming GPU Production Cuts 🌍 @carterefe.bsky.social Becomes Africa's Top Twitch Creator + Game Keys, Industry Jobs + much more! Join for free to get my 2026 Predictions in January! tos.gg/stream-recap...

Amazon has announced Content Exclusion categories for advertisers across Twitch and third-party inventory. Advertisers can now exclude content that includes: Accidents, Weapons, Gambling, Gore, Crime, Shock, Profanity, Politics, Religious, and much more.

In this week's newsletter, I shared my own version of a Newsletter Annual Wrapped! Nearly 47,000 words shared, over 1/4 of weekly readers signed up this year, my biggest spelling mistake, and a few other things! Subscribe to the newsletter for free! tos.gg/s

TikTok has reportedly signed a deal to sell the US business, according to Axios. Deal closes January 22. Oracle, Silver Lake + MGX own 45%. ~33% owned by existing ByteDance investors. ~20% retained by ByteDance.

Instagram is updating the number of hashtags you can use on posts and reels to limit it to 5 (five).

Rams WR Puka Nacua had to apologize for antisemitism after streaming with Adin Ross (who streamed on Kick) and Neon (who streamed on Twitch). As a reminder, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy chose to unban Adin Ross, and the platform actively recruited Neon away from Kick earlier this year.

The Lead Moderator role is now launched on Twitch. Lead moderators have access to all channel moderation settings, including those previously only available to streamers.

Looks like a good opportunity here! Watch sports with your community and get paid to do it! 💰 streamlabs.com/sponsorships #Partner

Discord is testing the ability to 'rent' profile decorations.

My weekly creator newsletter is now out! 🥇 Moist wins COTY 🔴 Neal Mohan, CEO of the Year (+ Fan of AI Moderation?) 🎙️ Golden Globe Best Podcasts 🗓️ TOSgg Wrapped 2025 + some new paid opps, game keys, platform updates, and much more! tos.gg/stream-recap...

Google is ending its Dark Web Report feature that alerted you to personal information appearing there.

Playback, which raised $22M in funding earlier this year to become the 'Twitch for Sports', has shut down.

You can now limit "Watch Streak" announcements to start at 10 or higher, reducing the frequency of 3-, 5-, and 7-streak spam in chats.

Powerful tool for Twitch Partners seeing those Twitch-sanctioned sponsorship offers... Let PUBG, WhereWindsMeet, Capcom, and most of all Twitch, know that you know your value and won't be taken advantage of.

You can now replace the default Clip Reaction emotes used to represent the reactions on Clips/Stories. ➡️ dashboard.twitch.tv/settings/str...

New Twitch Sponsorship Campaign for Capcom. If you received it, what was your $/CCV offer? (Take your max payout and divide by your 30-day average Twitch viewership).

Twitch appears to be planning another sitewide 35% Shared Discount on 5+ gifted subs from December 23, 2025, to January 2, 2026. Shared Discounts mean creators get their sub split % of the discounted price. Creators can opt out of the promotion.

“When you work with creators, you’re getting multi-hour engagement at around $1–$3 per viewed hour, and that’s where the real value lies,” Olivia Murphy, NewGen. Sponsorship Takeaway: $1/CCV/Hour is considered a significant VALUE for brands.

MoistCr1tikal just won Content Creator of the Year at @thegameawards.com

Twitch has launched improved notification controls (via many more toggles) on the platform. They've also added new channel-specific options: - Always: Go Live, VODs, Clips, etc. - Go Live Only - Personalized (How it has been for years.) - Off

YouTube is expanding the Voice Replies experiment to even more creators in both the Main and Studio apps. It allows you to record 30-second audio replies.

Twitch has again reintroduced the 1000 Gift Sub option. They previously removed it because they disliked the way the algorithm was distributing gifts (though it also coincided with a sitewide discount).

You can now React with Like, Sad, Laugh, Hype, and Love on the Clips feed on Twitch's Mobile App.

Twitch is running an experiment offering volume-based discounts on ever larger gifted sub amounts, reducing the price to as low as $3.89. These are likely "Shared Discounts", where creators get their cut (50-70%) of the discounted rate.

Check out this week's creator newsletter! Game keys, updates and insight, including: 🎆 It's Recap Season 🏆 Streamer Awards (US/DE) 📅 Twitchcon 2026 Dates 🎉 Forbes 30 Under 30 💸 Sponsorship Rates Join 1000s of weekly readers and subscribe! tos.gg/stream-recap...

Twitch Clips now have a Like button, and public like count.

Amazing, they already followed #TikTok and reduced the number of tags to 5. Now they're thinking of dropping it to 3?! I know we had a serious tag problem back in the day, but this isn't going to help anything except for their algorithm over discoverability. /via @zachbussey.tos.gg's newsletter

It's my birthday, and I'm on vacation... But these Twitch sponsor offers got me more heated! Let's talk about how bad these offers are, and why I think it's Twitch's greed (but it could also be incompetence...) New video⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCTe...

ijustlovepuzzles is such a wonderful part of the Twitch community.

QTCinderella with a joke about Twitch CEO Dan Clancy that I think everyone in this community feels is a bit too real...

Twitch's Sponsorship Dashboard has launched new opportunities for Partners. Unfortunately, they pay between $0.06 to $0.15 per CCV. (Example image from a 100 CCV streamer below.) Generally, the market 'fair' rate is $1 - $2 per CCV.

Twitch is folding the Bounty Board into the Sponsorship Dashboard. RIP Bounty Board: May 2018 to December 2025. One last look at what 99% of people who had access to it saw 99.9% of the time. (Nothing Available.)

Twitchcon 2026 Dates Rotterdam 2026 May 30-31, 2026 San Diego 2026 November 13-15, 2026

If you've ever had questions about @streamlabs.com, here's an excellent opportunity to ask them directly to Ashray! December 10, 1PM ET on r/streaming www.reddit.com/r/streaming/... #Partner

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy visited the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's HQ, reportedly to discuss the center's work and Twitch's responsibilities as a platform.

I am on vacation. Expect infrequent and/or slower updates than usual. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Discord has launched Checkpoint on Desktop. It's a recap of your last year on the platform. If you didn't have data personalization on, you won't have one. Also it's currently disabled on mobile.

Twitch has teased they'll be announcing Twitchcon dates tomorrow.

YouTube Recap is launching globally later today. Once launched, it will be available here: youtube.com/recap

Your Twitch Recap 2025 is now out. www.twitch.tv/annual-recap/