While musicians embrace Twitch as a place to monetize livestreams and connect with fans, their representatives are fighting the platform over its lack of music licensing agreements. Both sides argue t ...

The “I’m Sprung” artist currently has 1.1 million followers on the platform. While speaking on “Club Shay Shay,” he shared ...

At a time when the pandemic has eliminated touring as what has traditionally been artists’ largest source of income, a growing group of musicians are taking advantage of the overlap of gaming and… By ...

Twitch may be finding ways to offer legal music for livestreams, but it’s not enough for some in the music industry. Variety has learned that the RIAA, Recording Academy and over a dozen groups have ...

Twitch is giving gamers a new way to spice up their “let’s play” videos and live shows. The popular video game streaming platform today announced it’s offering a library of free-to-use music to ...

In 2018, Twitch streamer Ryann Weller played a 30-second snippet of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” on one of his livestreams. He showed viewers an animated e-card featuring his fans’ faces dancing to the 2003 ...

Live-streaming service Twitch continues to explore the opportunities available in the music scene, today announcing that it is partnering with the Ultra Music Festival to stream three days of ...

This post has been updated to include the entire article. It was originally to be published in two parts. Music creators (songwriters and performing artists) and rights’ owners (music publishers and ...

Report: Twitch enables artists to monetize via livestream channels that connect deeply with loyal fans. After a year-plus of lost touring income, music artists are looking for ways to pay the bills, ...

Twitch partner Kate Stark was in a meeting when she got an email from Twitch saying some of her videos had copyrighted music in them and had been deleted. She panicked. “And then I went to Twitter,” ...