Twitch & Kick Growth Guides

Twitch info panels are those rectangular blocks under the player on your About tab. People use them for the short bio, the weekly schedule, a donation link, social handles, a gear list, chat rules. This guide takes a 2026 streamer through every step that actually matters: where the Edit Panels toggle hides, the strict 320 px width rule, the 2.9 MB image ceiling, the markdown that does and doesn't render, the mobile editor workaround, and the panel layouts that pull follows.

Echo on a Twitch stream almost never comes from the room. It comes from the same audio reaching the encoder twice with a small delay. Most of the time the cause is one OBS setting flipped the wrong way: Audio Monitoring is set to Monitor and Output on a source whose sound is already getting captured somewhere else. The fix takes about two minutes if you know where to look. This guide walks through every common echo path in OBS in 2026, what each one sounds like in chat, and the menu clicks that close the loop for good.

A stream overlay is the layer that turns a raw webcam feed and a game capture into a recognisable channel. Camera frame, alerts, chat, sub goal, Starting and BRB scenes, all sitting at 1920x1080 over your gameplay. You can ship one in an hour with free packs, or spend €150 on a custom commission From eight years of running Partner onboarding for an agency.. This guide walks the full path: pick a pack or design from scratch, size every element, drop it into OBS or Streamlabs, and test before going live (confirmed in the Twitch Creator Camp doc on 2026-04-29).

Harassment on Twitch arrives in three shapes: one rude viewer, a coordinated hate raid. A slow drip of borderline messages your audience reads as neglect. Each shape needs a different response. This 2026 playbook walks through the official toolkit Twitch shipped between 2021 and the December 2025 Lead Moderator rollout, the chat commands every broadcaster should memorize. Hit this Saturday with a creator. The third-party automation that fills the gaps Twitch still leaves open.

Twitch lifted its simulcasting ban back in October 2023, and the platform stopped penalising combined chat overlays in February 2026. Affiliates and Partners can now stream to YouTube, Kick, Facebook and TikTok at the same time as Twitch, with three live conditions: keep Twitch chat in view, don't link out to other platforms during the broadcast, and keep your Twitch quality on par with the others. The piece below is half setup tutorial, half buying guide. Marcus here: we compare the cloud relay route (Restream.io, StreamYard, Castr) against the local route (OBS multi-RTMP, Aitum, Streamlabs Multistream), price each one against current 2026 plans, work out how much upload bandwidth you actually need, and answer the questions readers keep asking on Reddit, Quora and the OBS forum. Skip to the section that matches the route you already lean towards, or read top to bottom if you're starting fresh.

Want the full follower list, more than just the headline number? On Twitch, the word "followers" gets confused with paid Subscribers. The official mobile app hides most of what you actually need. The full list lives in Creator Dashboard under Community, with growth charts in Insights. Below: the desktop path, the mobile workaround, search and sort tips. A creator I work with hit this last week — the API and CSV options, plus what to do when the count looks wrong after a Twitch bot sweep.