Twitch is encouraging creators to use Stream Recaps, too. These automatically assemble highlights from clips created during your broadcast, giving viewers a way to revisit memorable moments after your stream ends. You can review your recap through Creator Dashboard → Stream Summary.

A good lighting setup for streaming starts with one simple goal: people should be able to see you clearly. You do not need a television studio in your bedroom. You do not need six RGB lights blasting every surface in sight. And you definitely do not need to turn your streaming space into a miniature Christmas village. For most streamers, a good setup starts with a key light aimed at your face. From there, you can add a fill light to soften shadows, a backlight to separate you

Amazon Luna is Amazon’s cloud gaming service, and its Twitch integration makes it possible to stream supported games without a traditional gaming PC or capture card setup. Here’s how Luna works, what Prime includes, and what Twitch streamers need to know.

Twitch Streamer Shouts give creators a new way to reconnect with viewers after a stream. Learn how the feature works, which viewer groups you can reach, how to send a Shout, attach clips, and write messages that fit the occasion.

Twitch Shared Chat lets multiple streamers combine their communities into one conversation during a collab. Here’s how to enable it, use it with friends, manage moderation, and understand how bans and Shared Viewership work.

Got a Twitch clip you want gone? Here’s how to delete a single clip, remove multiple clips at once, and clean up clips from your channel.

Forgot to change your Twitch title before going live? Here’s how to update your stream title and category from Twitch, OBS, mobile, or with a chat command.

Quiet chat does not have to mean an awkward stream. Learn how to avoid dead air, narrate naturally, handle lurkers, and keep viewers engaged even when nobody is talking.

Eventually, if you stream long enough, you’re probably going to have to move OBS to another computer. Maybe you finally upgraded your streaming PC. Maybe your old computer is on its last legs. Maybe something crashed and forced the issue. Or maybe you’ve simply reached the point where your current setup isn’t keeping up with what you’re trying to do anymore. Whatever the reason, getting the new computer is the fun part. Moving everything over? Not so much.

I've spent most of my adult life around them. Between working with audio-visual equipment, DJ gear, computers, streaming setups, USB hubs, monitors, adapters and everything else we creators manage to plug into something, I have accumulated more drawers and bags full of cables than I care to count. And one thing I've learned is that cables are very easy to overlook.

Someone raids your stream or another creator comes into your chat, and a shoutout gives your viewers a quick way to discover that person's channel. Twitch does have its own built-in /shoutout command. In practice, though, if you've spent much time around Twitch communities, you're probably very familiar with !so. It's commonly used with chat bots and has become one of those commands that many streamers and moderators type almost automatically.

Twitch has confirmed that channel content can be used to train generative AI models developed by Amazon, which owns Twitch. The content involved can include material creators publish through their channels, including streams and videos. This isn't the same thing as Twitch simply using AI features. Twitch already uses machine-learning and AI-powered systems for things like recommendations, discovery, moderation and other platform features. What's causing the current cont

For years, that created a frustrating problem for OBS users. OBS Studio was built around a traditional 16:9 canvas. While there were clever workarounds for creating vertical streams, most of them required duplicate scenes, complicated transforms, multiple instances of OBS, or enough trial and error to make even experienced streamers question whether it was worth the effort. Fortunately, that's changed.

A Twitch stream might last three, four, or even eight hours, but most people aren't going to sit through an entire VOD looking for your funniest moments, clutch plays, meaningful conversations, or the moments that make your community special. That's where Twitch clips come in. A great clip captures the highlight of your stream in less than a minute. It's easy to share, easy to watch, and it can become someone's first introduction to your channel.

If your goal is to restore your headphones back to their original look, replacing the ear pads is one of the easiest upgrades you can make. There are replacement cushions available that are designed to closely match the original style, shape, and fit of the factory ear cups. Choosing a plain black replacement will give your headphones that fresh-out-of-the-box appearance again, while still preserving the original design that made you love them in the first place.

For some creators, the microphone is the entire experience. Maybe you're doing a cozy stream, a late-night gaming session, a podcast, a VTube stream, or content where you aren't always on camera. In those situations, your voice has to carry the connection. And if you have a naturally unique voice—a deep voice, a soothing voice, a textured voice, or a voice with a lot of personality—the right microphone can highlight those qualities instead of flattening them.

Thinking about collaborating with other streamers? Learn how Twitch Stream Together works, how to set up collaborations, use Shared Chat, and grow your community with one of Twitch's most powerful networking features.

Twitch Watch Streaks reward viewers for consistently supporting their favorite creators. Learn how the feature works, how to recover a missed streak, and why it's becoming one of Twitch's best community-building tools.

Once you understand how Display Capture records your monitor, how Window Capture communicates with individual applications, how Game Capture hooks directly into games, and why Application Capture exists, OBS starts making a lot more sense. Instead of trying random fixes from forum posts or Reddit threads, you can troubleshoot based on what's actually happening behind the scenes.

A lot of streamers think Twitch monetization starts when they hit Affiliate or when they finally get “big enough.” But in reality, income on Twitch has very little to do with the moment you unlock features—and everything to do with how your stream is structured around support. You can have people watching you every day and still make nothing if there’s no clear path for viewers to support your content. On the flip side, smaller creators can start earning early just by sett