Twitch launches new Showcase tool for streamers

Twitch has released Showcase, a new online tool meant to help streamers create video and imagery to complement their streaming content. At the moment, the tool is limited to affiliate and partner streamers, and many features of the newly released tool are subject to change.

Streaming on Twitch is an all-around job. Many content creators and streamers have accumulated dozens of online assets that they use as overlays, as well as for social media. That’s why with its latest project, Twitch now offers its streamers a way to easily create such online assets themselves. The interactive tool uses existing information from the user’s Twitch profile and creates a personalized asset kit that can be customized at will.

Designed to support streamers

Showcase is a desktop-only application that supports Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave. The interactive online toolkit is still in an early phase where a lot of experimentation is still going on. The tool is currently only available for English-speaking affiliates and partner streamers.

Showcase pulls information from users’ Twitch profile pictures, emotes, schedules, and local time zones to create personalized content for them. At the moment, streamers can create various video assets such as stream schedules and “going live” notifications, but the service is likely to offer other assets in the future. The Twitch toolkit also offers a wide range of customization options to modify the API-generated assets.

For example, users can change colors and images and choose from 10 predefined announcements. After the changes are saved, Showcase users can download the content as an image or video, and then post the created content to their stream or social media. Even if the scope of Showcase is not yet accessible to all users, it should be made easier for streamers to design content quickly and smoothly.

Is Twitch trying for damage control?

The launch of the tool is certainly good news for many streamers, however, it’s been a while since the last good news from Twitch. A while ago, the platform announced that they would cut the streamers’ income from subscriptions – instead of 70%, creators now only get 50%. This has caused a lot of frustration among streamers and it wouldn’t be surprising if we see another wave of people switching to Youtube in the near future.

The company also received negative attention at Twitch Con, as streamer Adriana Chechik and her friend EdgyBot both badly injured their backs at Twitch Con when they jumped in a foam pit, while other people got injured too. Many blamed Twitch for this as the foam pit was definitely not deep enough and it resulted in numerous serious injuries.

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