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It’s Day 16 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and Yo has fallen! Uber will go to the next round and it will be taking on one of today’s nominees. Today we have the streamer’s app of choice going up against one of the oldest and most reliable apps on a phone. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as always, if you think we missed your personal…

The labyrinthine mire that is Twitch’s streamer revenue-sharing system is getting both a little more streamlined and more convoluted in equal measure. How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work?In the latest round of Twitch switching up its payment model, the Amazon-owned streaming platform will allow even more lower-tier streamers can claim a piece of the pie. Still, it remains unclear whether creators can expect to make more or less money from subscriptions as time goes on when they’re not making as…

Twitch laid off 35% of its staff, just over 500 employees, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. This is the latest round of layoffs at Amazon’s live-streaming site, which says it receives over 35 million daily visitors but has failed to turn a profit. How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work?“I regret having to share that we are taking the painful step to reduce our headcount by just over 500 people across Twitch,” said CEO Dan Clancy in a blog post. Despite efforts to cut costs, Clancy says the…

Aditya-L1, India's first solar mission, is all set to be launched today (September 2) at 11.50am IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota. The launch for the solar mission has been announced days after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved success in safe landing on the moon surface with its Chandrayaan-3 mission. Aditya-L1 will be carried aboard ISRO's PSLV rocket, which will undergo a space journey of 125 days. The name Aditya in the…

Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, surely hoped to trend on Twitter after announcing his run for president in an audio stream on the platform today. He likely did not want to see the top hashtag be #DeSaster.Just minutes after DeSantis joined the platform's owner Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces, and before the politician could even speak, Musk could be heard saying, "The servers are straining somewhat.” Then the stream abruptly ended, apparently overwhelmed by some 667,000 listeners, a paltry number compared to…

The Mexican government’s press conference from the Palacio Nacional on Wednesday looked like it was part of a late-night comedy skit. Standing behind a podium with the government seal, an official proudly announced that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had been named the top streamer in Mexico in the first quarter of 2023. The announcement wasn’t a joke, though.How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work?López Obrador shocked the streaming world this week when he suddenly popped up in sixth place on…

The pandemic sent the livestream sales industry into overdrive. The Chinese government’s strict “zero Covid” policies hit the brick-and-mortar retail industry hard. Stuck at home, sales assistants and business owners started to sell online, joined by celebrities, athletes, even government officials. Asset management company CINDA Securities estimates that the livestreaming market was worth 2.84 trillion yuan ($42.3 billion) by the end of 2022.  Livestreaming wasn’t just something that ecommerce companies did—social media…

Netflix is a streaming service that's taken the world by storm, offering thousands of movies and TV shows at the click of a button. With its wide variety of content and user-friendly interface, it's no wonder Netflix has become a household name. Netflix is reducing its subscription prices in more than 30 countries to attract customers in the face of growing competition. The affected countries include Yemen, Jordan, Libya, Iran, Kenya, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria. Latin American countries such as…

The Discord forum channels feature will be available to all the users that run community servers. Representative ImageDiscord is already a well-liked communication tool for the live-streaming communities on YouTube and Twitch, but it is now making its own substantial entry into the sector.According to The Verge, an American technology news website, for viewers to communicate with hosts and one another, Discord has enhanced its Stage Channels functionality to include video, screen sharing, and text chat.All desktop and…

Image Source : FILE Meta Meta has announced that it will be shutting down its cameo-like app, Super, a live-streaming platform for influencers developed by Meta in 2020. The company will be shutting down the service by February 15, 2023 The company has said that it had hoped to create a virtual meet-and-greet experience that was similar to what users experience at a…