Twitch is testing Elevated Chat, letting users make one-time payments of $5 to $100 to highlight a message in select chats from 30 seconds to 2.5 minutes (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)

September 30, 2022

Chris Kerr / Game Developer:
Twitch is testing Elevated Chat, letting users make one-time payments of $5 to $100 to highlight a message in select chats from 30 seconds to 2.5 minutes — Twitch wants to help viewers support their favorite content creators by allowing them to pay up to $100 to elevate their message in chat.

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OnlyFans plans to let creators sell merchandise directly to viewers in partnership with e-commerce platform Spring (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
OnlyFans plans to let creators sell merchandise directly to viewers in partnership with e-commerce platform Spring — Social network will allow content creators to sell merchandise directly to their viewers — Content creators on OnlyFans will be able to sell merchandise directly to their viewers …

November 17, 2022

Meta plans to test Discord-like “Community Chats” in Messenger and Facebook Groups, offering categories, audio and video channels, admin-only chats, and more (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to test Discord-like “Community Chats” in Messenger and Facebook Groups, offering categories, audio and video channels, admin-only chats, and more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups.

September 13, 2022

Starting June 1, 2023, Twitch says subscription revenue above $100K will be split 50/50, not 70/30, for streamers on premium deals, citing hosting costs (Twitch Blog)

Twitch Blog:
Starting June 1, 2023, Twitch says subscription revenue above $100K will be split 50/50, not 70/30, for streamers on premium deals, citing hosting costs — Hello, Twitch community. I’m Dan Clancy, President of Twitch and responsible for the day-to-day operations of the service.

September 21, 2022

Internal letter shows Twitch SVP of global creators Constance Knight resigned on the same day the company announced revenue sharing changes for top creators (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Internal letter shows Twitch SVP of global creators Constance Knight resigned on the same day the company announced revenue sharing changes for top creators — The senior vice president of global creators at Twitch told employees she is leaving the company on the same day it announced changes …

September 23, 2022

Google says it is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS-based group chats on its Messages app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google says it is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS-based group chats on its Messages app — Google said today it is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS-based group chats on its Messages app — RCS stands for Rich Communication Services. The company noted that it will be rolling …

December 2, 2022

YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature to make it easier for creators to select and manage questions from viewers in the chat during livestreams (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature to make it easier for creators to select and manage questions from viewers in the chat during livestreams — YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature that is designed to make it easier for creators to interact with viewers during livestreams.

November 13, 2022

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