With more than 15 hours average weekly usage by subscribers and a trio of paths to monetization, gaming-centric platform Twitch just may be a music artist’s best friend, according to a new report.

Twitch has removed a badge that identified game developers in chat streams. As detailed in a blog post yesterday, the badge is no longer visible on the platform, and the toggle on the developer ...

Twitch also dropped a bunch of numbers, for those keeping track: Twitch had an average of 622,347 concurrent viewers in 2016, peaking at 2,061,718 viewers at once in April.

For example, Twitch and YouTube creators can engage fans in chat, selling them speciality badges (emotes and Super Chat badges, respectively), along the way. Facebook is now heading into this ...