Emmett Shear, the CEO of Twitch, has stepped down after founding the platform 16 years ago. Join Pete and special guest Lowco as they dive into what this means for the platform and their thoughts on the new CEO who's taking over.
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This week on the Gaming Careers podcast we discussed a variety of news from Twitch and YouTube, such as Kai Cenat's record-breaking achievement, Stream Elements' new charity alerts feature, and Discord's new Super Reactions feature for Nitro subscribers. We also discussed Twitch and YouTube updates, including their new features such as Viewer Milestones, Multi-Language Audio, and the Time To Stream Experiment. Tune in to get the latest updates in the streaming community!
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On this week's episode, we discuss four of the main platforms - Twitter, YouTube, kick.com, and Twitch. We chat about the changes to Twitter's longer tweets, the impact of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down, the potential for kick.com to become a major streaming platform and Twitch's engagement strategies and the channel skins feature.
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Is vertical content going to be the future for live streamers?
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Twitch released a full roadmap of features they plan to launch in 2023!
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We discuss the specific games that are seeing HUGE jumps in viewership for streamers, and what you can do to predict the next game that could make you go viral!
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Have your ad incentive offers on Twitch been disappointingly low this month? Well, you're not alone!
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This week we cover all of the new streaming tech products announced at CES, updates to YouTube's Partner Program, a new version of OBS Studio, and a whole lot more!
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We're back! In this episode, we discuss all the latest creator platform updates from the likes of Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Discord, and even Tumblr (yes, they're launching livestreaming in 2023!). Join Pete and Ben for the Gaming Careers Podcast live!
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The Gaming Careers Podcast returns for 2023!
Join us live on January 2nd 2023 at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern, and 9 pm GMT over on the Gaming Careers YouTube channel for the live video version of the podcast, or it'll be in your podcasting app of choice a few hours later.
Thanks so much for sticking with us during our extended break, looking forward to seeing what 2023 brings!
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Twitch has been busy launching a whole suite of new features for streamers such as allowing streamers to share ban lists, reducing the payment threshold to $50, and giving streamers more control over who can raid them. Join Pete and Ben for the Gaming Careers Podcast live!
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Even more top streamers have announced they're leaving Twitch for YouTube. Join Gaming Careers and Benjamin Green for the Gaming Careers Podcast live!
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Twitch has been busy testing a whole bunch of new features designed to increase streamer income and improve discoverability. But will they actually work? Join Pete and Ben for the Gaming Careers Podcast live!
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Some HUGE and much-needed YouTube updates have been released this week that streamers and creators have long demanded the platform to compete with Twitch. Join Pete and Ben for the Gaming Careers Podcast live!
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This week a leak dropped about Twitch's potential planned changes to the Partner program and it's not good! We've also had the Q1 industry report from Stream Hatchet so will be diving into the data to see what's been changing.
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Twitter is poised to agree on a sale to Elon Musk for a reported $43bn. What does this mean for the platform and all the content creators on it? Join Pete and Ben for The Gaming Careers Podcast live!
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Plenty of new features launched for all 3 major streaming platforms this week, let's discuss what's new and what's coming soon! Join Pete and Ben for this week's livestream of The Gaming Careers Podcast!
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Twitch and YouTube have both launched some new features this week including Boost Train, Appeals Portal, and Clips for all channels. Join Pete and Ben for this week's livestream of The Gaming Careers Podcast!
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What exactly counts as a "viewer" on Twitch? This week several myths that were circling social media were dispelled by Twitch about how viewers are counted across web and mobile.
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YouTube has taken the first steps to improve the discoverability of live streams, which will be especially useful to smaller streamers. Join Pete and Ben for this week's livestream of the Gaming Careers Podcast!
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