Feb 1

Celebrate Black Brilliance on Twitch

Feb 1

Celebrate Black Brilliance on Twitch

History doesn’t just happen. It’s created. And Black Streamers are creating it live every day.

Jan 26

New Easy Emote Management: All Your Emotes, One Page

Jan 26

New Easy Emote Management: All Your Emotes, One Page

Since the very beginning emotes have been the go-to feature...

Jan 7

Introducing our 2021 Twitch Research Fellows

Jan 7

Introducing our 2021 Twitch Research Fellows

We’re proud to announce our 2021 Twitch Research Fellowship award...

Dec 23

Host your own NYE house party on Twitch

Dec 23

Host your own NYE house party on Twitch

2020 is finally coming to a close, yes finally, with...

Twitch Studio Updates: New Tools to Help You Stream Like a Pro

Twitch Studio Updates: New Tools to Help You Stream Like a Pro

Since we first launched Twitch Studio we’ve continued to work...

Introducing Soundtrack by Twitch: Rights-Cleared Music For All Twitch Creators

Introducing Soundtrack by Twitch: Rights-Cleared Music For All Twitch Creators

*Update: As of October 19, 2020, Soundtrack by Twitch (beta)...

Squad Stream: The next way to play and watch together

Squad Stream: The next way to play and watch together

Squad Stream is a fast and easy way for up to four creators to go live and stream together in one window.

Improving the Offline Experience for Viewers and Streamers

Improving the Offline Experience for Viewers and Streamers

Every day, millions of people come to Twitch to watch and find new channels. To help streamers be more discoverable, and to provide viewers…

Updated! Your Developer Experience at TwitchCon 2019

Updated! Your Developer Experience at TwitchCon 2019

Developers are now fully integrated into TwitchCon San Diego with a dedicated learning path and fun experiences specific to developers.

Twitch Developer Tour Roundup

Twitch Developer Tour Roundup

Thanks to our community and partners that came out to see us on tour!

Twitch Developer Tour + gamesweekberlin = better together!

Twitch Developer Tour + gamesweekberlin = better together!

We are excited to partner with gamesweekberlin 8 April through 14 April, 2019! Our Twitch Developer Tour Berlin is now part of their seven…

Announcing TwitchCon 2019

Announcing TwitchCon 2019

Coming right off the best TwitchCon ever in San Jose, we knew it would take something big to make this year’s event ever better. So we…

Twitch Prime members: Get Monthly Rift Rewards in League of Legends

Twitch Prime members: Get Monthly Rift Rewards in League of Legends

Twitch Prime and Riot Games are teaming up to offer Twitch Prime members four months’ worth of content for League of Legends, beginning…

Twitch Rivals returns with over 100 events in 2019

Twitch Rivals returns with over 100 events in 2019

We heard you when you said you want more Twitch Rivals, so this year, we’re bringing you more weekly events and making all of them even…

Twitch Prime members: Get a Summoner’s Crown Capsule in League of Legends!

Twitch Prime members: Get a Summoner’s Crown Capsule in League of Legends!

Riot Games and Twitch Prime have teamed up to bring you the first in a series of free in-game loot in League of Legends for Twitch Prime…

Twitch Rivals presents: the Hearthstone Gold Rush challenge

Twitch Rivals presents: the Hearthstone Gold Rush challenge

In one week, Hearthstone’s Dual Class Arena mode, The Hallow’s End, will return for a two week limited time special event!

Beyond Purple

Beyond Purple

Take a look at how we brought Twitch's new brand to life through the product experience.

Introducing Tags and New Categories: New Ways to Discover Streamers on Twitch

Introducing Tags and New Categories: New Ways to Discover Streamers on Twitch

Today we’re releasing Tags, a new way for streamers to describe their live stream in more detail, and new Categories.

This August, help us raise money for #CreateforKids

This August, help us raise money for #CreateforKids

Our third annual #CreateforKids charity drive kicks off this month, and we’re calling all streamers to join. Last year we partnered with…

May Cosplay Showcase!

May Cosplay Showcase!

Attending a convention and taking photos with your favorite characters only shows off one facet of cosplay, but cosplayers and artists put…

Twitch Studio Beta updates

Twitch Studio Beta updates

Twitch Studio Beta, our free streaming software designed to make...

ThisEmoteDoesNotExist: Training a GAN for Twitch Emotes

ThisEmoteDoesNotExist: Training a GAN for Twitch Emotes

The idea for this project began when a coworker and I were talking about NVIDIA’s photo-realistic generated human faces using StyleGAN and…

Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap

Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap

I’m a big fan of small code changes that can have large impact. This may seem like an obvious thing to state, but let me explain:

How Twitch Addresses Scalability and Authentication

How Twitch Addresses Scalability and Authentication

Curious how Twitch Identity services address scalability and performance challenges related to authentication?

Introducing the Twitch Command Line Interface Tool

Introducing the Twitch Command Line Interface Tool

We are delighted to announce the Twitch Command Line Interface (CLI), now available in an open beta.

Twitch Developer Day 2020: Introducing the Channel Points API, EventSub, and more

Twitch Developer Day 2020: Introducing the Channel Points API, EventSub, and more

Twitch Developer Day is a unique moment each year when we celebrate our innovative developer community and present the latest enhancements for our third-party products and services.

Twitch Developer Day 2020: Celebrating Innovation in the Community

Twitch Developer Day 2020: Celebrating Innovation in the Community

The fourth-annual Twitch Developer Day will take place on Friday, November 13 starting at 10am PST on the TwitchDev channel.

Available Today: A New Version of Drops

Available Today: A New Version of Drops

Today, we’re excited to bring game developers a new version of Drops – with an improved viewer experience, new publisher self-service dashboard, and more.

Analyzing Twitch chat during a Pokémon Marathon

Analyzing Twitch chat during a Pokémon Marathon

Twitch data scientists apply NLP on chat data

Using chat emotes as signals for content themes

Using chat emotes as signals for content themes

At Twitch, our Science team is always working to better understand the complex three-sided marketplace that revolves around streamers…

Two-Stage Least Squares For A/B Tests

Two-Stage Least Squares For A/B Tests

At Twitch, we run a lot of experiments — it’s the best way to confidently establish causation between product features and user behavior…

Productizing Data Science at Twitch

Productizing Data Science at Twitch

A key function of data science at Twitch is using behavioral data to build data products that improve our products and services.