Robert Kelly – Medium

Published in FFWD

·Nov 29, 2019

The Biggest Political Voices on Twitch Are The Washington Post and Some Dude Playing Call of Duty

Politics is getting weird. Is Twitch ready? — In June, Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders joined Twitch, the livestream website mostly known for hosting video game content. A few months later, President Trump followed suit. For years, Twitch has broadened its livestream offerings beyond the world of gaming, opening up avenues for streamers to broadcast IRL (in real…

Twitch

5 min read

Published in FFWD

·Sep 2, 2019

The World’s Most Influential Music Critic Is A YouTuber

Anthony Fantano is the Roger Ebert of music — all thanks to YouTube — The music video for a recent remix of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”, a song that broke the Billboard music chart’s all-time record for most consecutive weeks at number 1, depicts the track’s featured artists storming Area 51 in animated form. …

Music

5 min read

Published in FFWD

·Aug 9, 2019

Twitch’s Hottest New Thing: Vlogging

The video game streaming site is seeing a rise in people streaming anything but games — In 2016, two years after Amazon bought the company for $970 million, the livestream giant Twitch introduced the largest change ever implemented on the platform. The website, known for its dominance in esports broadcasting and the burgeoning world of video game livestreaming, announced it would allow content not related to…

Twitch

6 min read