Starting today in the US, “we’re giving all streamers access to some of our best monetization and community building tools including Bits, subs, emotes, badges, and Channel Points,” Twitch says.

Twitch has teamed up with The Pokémon Company to allow viewers to binge watch the Pokémon: The Series TV show and related movies on its site, and “catch” Pokémon badges along the way.

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 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.

DIY digital music distributor TuneCore has partnered with Twitch to launch the service’s new artist incubator program, The Collective. The programme is designed to empower artists by providing ...