Twitch Badges Roundup: July 2026 New Badges & Emotes Guide
Twitch badges roundup for July 2026: 35 new badges and 23 new emotes tracked, plus removals. See what's new with BadgeAlerts.
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June 2026 Twitch Badges Roundup: Every New Global Badge & Emote Added This Month
A full recap of every new Twitch global badge and emote first spotted in June 2026, from Rematch Nations Cup to MSI 2026 and Grey Zone Warfare.
Twitch Creator Badge Rewards: Everything You Need to Know (Beta)
Twitch is beta testing a new feature called Creator Badge Rewards — and if you care about badges even a little bit, this one is worth paying attention to. It gi…
How to Grow on Twitch in 2025–2026: What Actually Works
There is no shortage of advice about growing on Twitch. Most of it is either too vague to act on ("be consistent, be yourself") or outdated by a platform landsc…
Twitch vs. YouTube Gaming vs. Kick: Which Streaming Platform Is Right for You in 2025?
The streaming platform landscape is more competitive now than at any point since Twitch's early dominance. YouTube Gaming has been aggressively courting creator…
How to Use Twitch Emotes in Chat: The Complete Guide
If you have ever typed in a Twitch chatroom and had no idea why everyone was responding with strings of letters that you did not recognize as words, you were ex…
What Is a Twitch Subathon? Everything You Need to Know
If you have spent any time on Twitch in the past few years, you have seen the word "subathon" everywhere. Kai Cenat ran one for an entire month and broke every…
How to Change Your Badge in Twitch Chat: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
You earned a global badge. Maybe you caught a category subscription event, picked up a TwitchCon badge through a ticket purchase, or qualified for the annual Tw…
The Biggest Streamed Events on Twitch in 2025: Every Record That Fell
2025 broke more Twitch viewership records than any previous year, and the events responsible for those records covered a wider range of content types than the p…
The Top Twitch Streamers of 2025: Who Dominated the Platform This Year
2025 was the most data-dense year in Twitch's history for sheer viewership records. Platform-level peaks were broken. Individual streamers crossed milestones th…
How to Get Started as a Twitch Streamer: The Complete Beginner's Guide (2025–2026)
Starting a Twitch channel feels overwhelming until you realize most of the anxiety comes from overthinking things that do not matter yet. You do not need a $3,0…
Twitch Is Changing How Streaming Works in 2026: Everything Rolling Out Right Now
For most of the past decade, streaming on Twitch looked roughly the same. Horizontal video, 1080p ceiling, a chat window on the right, and a mobile experience t…
The Rarest Twitch Global Emotes and What Happened to Them
There is a version of Twitch chat history that most people never see. Emotes that were live for 72 hours and then gone. Partnership emotes tied to moments in st…
What Are Twitch Global Emotes? (And How They Actually Work)
If you have spent any real time in Twitch chat, you already use them without thinking about it. PogChamp. Kappa. EleGiggle. LUL. These are not just reaction ima…
Why Badge Hunting Is Twitch's Most Underrated Hobby
There is a small icon next to a username in a chatroom you are visiting for the first time. It is not a subscriber badge — you can tell from the context. It is…
Twitch Just Added 50 New Ambassadors. Here's What That Actually Means.
On March 4, 2026, reporting from Twitch industry tracker Zach Bussey confirmed that Twitch had anointed approximately 50 new Ambassadors, the largest single-yea…
The Twitch Recap Badge: What "Top 20%" Actually Means and How to Qualify
Every December, Twitch releases its version of the annual recap — a year-in-review that tells you which games you watched the most, which channels you spent the…
The Game Category Badge System: How Twitch's Limited Sub Badges Actually Work
If you have ever seen a badge in chat that was clearly themed around a specific game and wondered how someone earned it, you have probably already encountered t…
Every TwitchCon Global Badge, Ranked by Rarity
TwitchCon has produced more global badges than any other single source in Twitch history. Every event since the inaugural convention in 2015 has come with at le…
The Rarest Twitch Global Badges You'll Probably Never Get
Open the Twitch global badge archive and look at the user counts. Some badges show numbers in the millions. The Twitch Recap 2025 badge has over 1.4 million hol…
TwitchCon Rotterdam 2026: The 10th Anniversary, the Badges, and Everything Badge Hunters Need to Know
Ten years. That is what TwitchCon 2026 is marking, and Twitch has made clear this is not a low-key milestone. The messaging from the official announcement calls…
How to Earn Twitch Global Badges: Every Method Explained
There are two types of people who stumble onto a Twitch global badge for the first time. The first type sees it, thinks it looks cool, and moves on. The second…
What Are Twitch Global Badges? (And Why They're Not What Most People Think)
Most Twitch users have seen them. A little icon sitting next to someone's username in chat, looking distinct, looking earned. You click it, and instead of seein…