After 24 hours of data collection, estimated Subtember 2025 Bonus Sub odds: For every 5 Subs Gifted: ~75% Chance of 1 Bonus. ~15% Chance of 2-5 Bonus. ~7% Chance of 6-20 Bonus. ~2% Chance of 21-100 Bonus. On average, you should theoretically get ~1.15 Bonus Subs per 5 Gifted.

Twitch is testing a "Pause Subscription" function. Pausing your subscription does then cancel it after 20 days if you don't renew, but it gives you additional time to maintain your Sub Streak.

Subtember Finale starts now and runs until October 1. Gifting 5 Subs = At least +1 Bonus Sub. (The bonus is triggered for every multiple of 5. My understanding is that the bonus will be between 1 and 50; the gambling mechanism makes larger bonuses rarer.)

According to research by Kantar, viewers prefer ads on Amazon, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitch, and Prime Video the most. Meanwhile, marketers prefer to run ads on YouTube, Instagram, Google, Netflix, and Spotify. Full report: www.campaignlive.com/article/amaz...

My unofficial Twitchon San Diego 2025 Artist Alley Map! Follow the creators here in my Artist Alley Starter Pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Twitch's Partnership team reached out to Cuffem, a Kick streamer, about a potential partnership with Twitch. Less than 48 hours earlier, Cuffem was on Kick while waving a Nazi flag, arguing with an Israeli. This is the kind of content Cuffem regularly does. What is going on at Twitch?!

Twitch is making it easier to achieve Partner. They've reduced the number of streams needed from 8 per month (for two months) to 6 per month (for two months).

Twitch is launching Stream Rewind on web soon for Turbo and Channel Subscribers. Mobile support will be available at a later date. You will need to have VODs enabled for it to work; as such, it will not be available for DJs or channels with VODs disabled.

Twitch is launching a new moderation analytics dashboard.

I'll be live at 2PM EST! First to play the LogitechG Roblox Arcade! #LogitechGPlay #Ad Enter to win the brand new G515 Rapid TKL! gleam.io/mC6NF/logite... Then later, to co-stream Twitch Patch Notes! twitch.tv/zachbussey

Australia's eSafety Commissioner is expanding its list of platforms that may be subject to the Social Media Ban for Under 16s to include both Twitch and Kick. The updated list also includes Pinterest, Lego Play, Steam, WhatsApp, and others. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee sent letters to top executives at Discord, GitHub, Reddit, and Twitch on Monday, requesting information about how they monitor extremist content and flag information for law enforcement. thehill.com/policy/techn...

Streamers globally are reporting that Twitch has removed a significant number of ingest servers worldwide. Have you noticed your Twitch ingest server is not available? Or has your stream been buffering/dropping frames recently? (For me, it appears all Canadian and several US servers are gone.)

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Update: Social Badges. Twitch will be launching the ability for viewers to earn badges by sharing clips of creators on their YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. As that content gets views, it unlocks badges for the user. I previously covered this in June (see the next post).

Twitch is experimenting with mobile "Followversary" notifications.

Newsletter subscribers get full access to my Twitchcon 2025 Event List in tomorrow's edition! (Now 26+ events and counting.)

Just an advisory for people going to #TwitchCon San Diego this year, the Saturday of TwitchCon, Oct 18th, there will be protests part of a national day of protests about a mile north of the convention starting in the morning. The last major protest rally in June drew about 60k people.

Twitch, the cat, is missing, and an Amazon delivery truck may be the culprit. I need Twitch and Amazon to make this a priority. 12onyourside.com/2025/09/18/o...

Twitch has launched a "Get Clips Download" API endpoint in open beta and will make it generally available in two weeks.

Twitch has banned Mizkif for 7 Days for joking about Charlie Kirk. "Fuck Twitch, man, fuck this bullshit. Why did I get banned during a sponsor? Are they serious?"

Twitchcon San Diego 2025 Streamer Meet & Greets will use a Match-Making system to randomly assign slots with a streamer you may want to meet. (It is not first-come, first-served.) This system will open on Sept 29, 2025, at 1PM EST, and will close on Oct 3, 2025, at 1PM EST.

Microsoft is once again increasing Xbox prices in the USA due to tariffs, starting October 3. Series S 512GB: $399.99 (up $20) Series S 1TB: $449.99 (up $20) Series X Digital: $599.99 (up $50) Series X: $649.99 (up $50) Series X 2TB Galaxy Special Edition: $799.99 (up $70)

Twitch is launching "Twitch University." The program aims to introduce students (17+) to the streaming space, offering them education and opportunities to collaborate and connect with Twitch Staff.

Discord is giving every user with Nitro* an Avatar Decoration, Profile Effect, and Nameplate. You get it as long as you have or get Nitro by September 30, 2025. *Excluding Nitro Basic and Nitro Classic.

I have created a Bluesky Starter Pack for Artist Alley at Twitchcon San Diego 2025! Check them out, follow the creators, and then show your support directly at the convention! go.bsky.app/9dCJZJF (I am missing a few that I couldn't find - tag me and I'll add!)

This chart from Ipsos measures Age vs Gender affinity by platform. 🟣 Twitch is the most male-dominated and youngest demographic. 🅿️ Pinterest has the most female-dominated userbase. 🦋 Bluesky skews oldest of all the platforms. It was conducted in January 2025.

New Twitch Hype Train Emotes designed by @tomthinks.bsky.social unlocked between levels 1 and 5. HiHand (Level 1) IAmClap (Level 2) LuvLuvLUV (Level 3) FrogWow (Level 4) MeSweat (Level 5)

Dan Clancy is currently scheduled to speak at Bloomberg Screentime in Los Angeles on October 8th.

With 30 days until Twitchcon San Diego 2025, my current projections suggest the sales pace is ~15% lower compared to 2024. I should have an accurate count of complimentary (exhibitor) badges to get a good estimate of actual attendance in the next week or two.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) invited the CEO's of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify on the Radicalization of Online Forum Users. Humam Sakhnini, Discord Gabe Newell, Steam Dan Clancy, Twitch Steve Huffman, Reddit oversight.house.gov/release/chai...

YouTube is expanding Likeness Detection. "We’re expanding our likeness protection tech to all YPP creators in an open beta. A new likeness detection feature will help you detect, manage, and request removal of unauthorized videos made with AI using your facial likeness."

YouTube is expanding Collaborations globally over the next couple of weeks. This tool allows you to showcase up to five creators who collaborated on a video, and may be shown to all of your audiences for increased discovery.

YouTube Shorts is getting a series of AI updates. 1. Edit with AI. Help edit your footage with AI, add music, transitions, and voiceovers. 2. Speech to Song. Turn your dialogue into a song. 3. Veo 3 in Shorts. Turn any idea into a video with sound.

YouTube is rolling out the ability to do mid-stream Public-to-Members-Only Streams. The feature will allow you to go live publicly, then at a certain point, you can tell everyone that the rest of the stream is Members-only and quickly transition to that.

YouTube will start testing a "React Live to YouTube Content" feature next year. The feature will allow you to go live on mobile and react to eligible YouTube content.

YouTube is launching AI-Powered Live to Shorts. AI will pull portions of your livestream and create Shorts for you to review. If you're happy with the video, you can instantly post it. Launching for mobile creators in the next few weeks.

YouTube will be launching Combined Chat for Vertical and Horizontal live streams. Experiments are starting soon, and they will expand over the coming months.

Twitch is introducing Age Verification in some regions, using on-device facial age estimation technology (k-ID).

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French streamer Squeezie announced GP Explorer 3 racing, streaming live October 3 - 5. In 2023, the event sold out 60,000 tickets in 30 minutes and had 1.3 million viewers. Ludwig and Michael Reeves are the first Americans invited to participate.

YouTube has responded to the drop in views many creators are seeing on desktop viewership, saying it's likely not Restricted Mode. Instead, they suggest a variety of other things, including Ad Blockers impacting view count accuracy. See the full post here: support.google.com/youtube/thre...

Premium members ($) have early access to my Twitchcon 2025 Party + Event List! (It's only 14 events so far; I expect it to grow to around 40 before TC2025.) It'll be available for newsletter subscribers for free next week, and mostly public near the end of the month! tos.gg/twitchcon-sa...

Twitch Badge Download a Clip from September 12 to 15th, and get the Video Games Badge.

Total Collapse... Turkish language content is now consumed less on Twitch than it was in 2016. Twitch has always had a contentious relationship with Türkiye due to Bits Fraud, a local currency in consistent freefall, and occasional government geoblocks. Still, wild to see.

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Mindblowing. Zerator's ZEVENT raised 16,179,096€ (~$18,945,000 USD) for a variety of charities.

Twitch no longer ships Bleed Purple statues to the following countries: Angola, Armenia, Bolivia, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Lithuania, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Somalia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Yemen.

New Global Emote on Twitch: SpaceShake

Streamers + other Digital Creators in the USA are set to benefit from "No Tax on Tips." Creators will be able to deduct up to $25,000 in tips from 2025 taxes. Note: It's unclear to me what will constitute a tip. TikTok Gifts? Twitch Bits? Or more direct PayPal/Venmo Tips?