Twitch Chat GIFs: What the New Subscriber Perk Means for Your Channel
Animated images started showing up in Twitch chats at the beginning of September, and plenty of streamers never got the memo. Twitch chat GIFs are a new perk for Tier…
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Twitch Donations Without a Registered Business: What You Actually Need
Someone in chat asks how they can send you a few euros, and you have no answer — because you assume you’d need to register a company first. Twitch donations…
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Twitch Activity Feed: Everything Happening in Your Stream, in One Place
You’re mid-fight, and in those same two minutes someone followed you, someone else gifted a sub, and a third viewer dropped bits. An activity feed is a running list of…
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SUBtember 2026: When Twitch Subs Are Cheaper — and When They Aren’t
Note: SUBtember 2026 has ended. The promotion ran from August 28 to October 1, 2026. This post describes how it worked this year – we’ll update it as soon as Twitch…
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Twitch Sponsorships Are Open to Affiliates: How to Get In
Brand deals on Twitch were effectively a Partner privilege. That ended on 20 August 2026: Twitch Sponsorships are now open to Affiliates as well. Twitch Sponsorships are the platform’s own…
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Twitch Bonus Gift Subs: Gift Five, Twitch Adds a Sixth
Update: This promotion has ended. Bonus Gift Subs ran from August 20 to 27, 2026 – gift subs still work as usual, just without the extra sub from Twitch. Twitch…
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Streamer.bot 1.0.7: Twitch Power-Ups and Message Pinning
A new stable Streamer.bot release landed on 6 August, and two of its changes hit exactly the Twitch features creators are talking about right now. Streamer.bot supports Power-Ups natively: you…
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Razer Acquires StreamElements: What It Means for Streamers
On 31 July 2026, Razer acquired StreamElements — which means one of the most widely used streaming toolkits in the world is now run by a hardware company. Very little…
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Build a Stream Overlay Without Extra Software – the Overlay Builder
There comes a point where the stream itself is working — and still looks like it was assembled by accident. An overlay from one place, alerts from another, a timer…
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Twitch Power-Ups in Chat – How ByteMate Reacts to Them
A viewer spends Bits, an emote takes over half the screen — and chat says nothing. Power-Ups are paid effects your viewers trigger with Bits in your channel. Until now…
