Rolling out in the first month between wrestling marathons, the first EVO Japan Championship, one million dollar Battle for Boston CSGO ELeague , speed running and Overwatch League what else has been going on, at Twitch? Twitch news
Buckle up, grab a beverage and enjoy what people like you and me are out their anticipating, hyping or creating as Twitch strive to deliver a complete game viewing experience.
FROM THE TWITCH OFFICE
Paypal, meet Bits – Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Korea (USD), Taiwan, and Thailand added to the payment methods for bits via pay pal.
New Global Cheermotes – Dansgame and Elegiggle to cheer with every time you buy bits!
Video Producer Tools – Now available!
Video Producer is a set of tools that enables creators to bring the exciting community experiences Twitch is known for to produced videos. Whether they pre-record all their content or they’re a streamer who’d like to easily repurpose and promote their videos, Twitch Video Producer can help.
One of its features, which we teased at TwitchCon last year, is called Premieres. Premieres lets creators schedule a first-viewing event around an uploaded video. Think of it like opening night for a movie. Creators can even add countdown intros to build up excitement as the crowd builds up…
This is just the beginning for Video Producer, and we’re eager to work with all of our creators to figure out which new features would be the most useful. So feel free to drop suggestions into the idea box.
Dashboard update – use the Twitch App to update stream info while live
Get Gift Cards for Christmas? – Use them up
Twitch team up with Blizzard – to stream Overwatch league exclusively except in China
That’s right; for the next two years, encompassing seasons one and two, Twitch will be the only place to watch regular-season, playoff, and championship Overwatch League matches — aside from Blizzard’s own site — with streams available in English, Korean, and French.
Top 3 used Holiday emotes – 863,737 holiday emotes used over the holidays!
Auditions for Stream On have ended.
INTERNATIONAL CREATOR SPOTLIGHTS
– Risey (India) https://www.twitch.tv/ris3y
– Rizhaya (Russia) https://www.twitch.tv/rizhaya
– Lia (Chile) https://www.twitch.tv/leagueoflia
– Zerato (France) https://www.twitch.tv/zerator
– Shanna (Netherlands) https://www.twitch.tv/shannanina
A KIWI BIRD’S EYE VIEW
Twitch is on 6-10 hours per day in this household, on at least one of our seven screens. This month we’ve been enjoying kicking out regularly with Michael Santana aka Imaqtpie, a League of Legends legend. No, I don’t even play LoL but what I enjoy is Imaqtpie’s approach – his chill, his constant reference to having autism reminding us that only we set our own limitations and in between his long (my-rank-is-too-high) queues I get to see how he approaches other games like Horizons Dawn which I cannot play without Playstation.
Podcasts are always super interesting and Gamespace Game Show podcast is starting to really take shape and there are more, so many more. If you would like me to tap into streams and streamers each month via separate articles let me know below and I’ll see what I can do!
For today though as I write, we are lurking with Sophia White aka Djarii who does incredible make up concepts that blow my (never-have-time-to-be) creative mind! The patience, the amount of product plus technique is next level inspiring and speaking of technique, excellent news came in yesterday Guy Beahm aka Drdisrespect is returning February 5th and I cannot wait!
Drdisrespect became our favorite streamer mid 2017 with his Shroud betting head shots, driving skills and sassy audacity so we were genuinely sad for him and his family when he declared his need to take time to put his family first. We have missed him hoping his family are all good, looking forward to the next chapter of the Champions Club.
On that epic note I am going to leave you with a video on Twitch’s biggest donations EVER that occurred this month courtesy of Mr Beast. How’s that for epic marketing?
Need emotes made?
Working on any cosplay?
