Twitch lanzará streaming vertical y horizontal en julio

Twitch said on May 30 that it will start rolling out a new “Dual Format” mode next month, allowing creators to stream in vertical and horizontal layouts at the same time. The announcement came in a post recapping TwitchCon Europe 2026 in Rotterdam, where the company also outlined a broader set of creator tools including 2K livestreaming, automatic clips and AI-generated channel summaries. Twitch said the mobile-facing format is designed so viewers holding a phone upright see a full-screen vertical version, while desktop viewers keep the standard horizontal layout. The company said the first rollout will include server-side transcoding support for Partners and many Affiliates. ### ¿La fecha es julio, como circuló en algunos medios, o junio? Twitch’s official blog post is dated May 30, 2026, and says the company will roll out Dual Format “next month,” which points to June rather than July. A separate Twitch blog post from May 31, 2025, had said dual-format streaming and a new vertical theater would be tested “this summer” before expanding later that year, which may explain why some later coverage described the launch more broadly as a summer rollout. (blog.twitch.tv) The May 30 post also says Twitch had already received “a lot of positive feedback during the beta” and made performance improvements before this wider release. That language indicates the feature is moving from testing toward a broader public rollout, rather than being announced for the first time. ### ¿Qué cambia exactamente para quien transmite? (blog.twitch.tv) Dual Format lets a streamer send both a vertical and a horizontal layout at the same time, according to Twitch. The company said mobile viewers will see a full-screen vertical presentation optimized for phones, while desktop viewers will continue to see the classic horizontal stream. On mobile, viewers can switch to a classic split view, and rotating the phone returns them to full-screen horizontal viewing. (blog.twitch.tv) Enhanced Broadcasting is the technology behind that setup. Twitch said in January 2024 that Enhanced Broadcasting works by creating multiple encodings of a stream on the creator’s device, using dedicated GPU encoder resources, and can automatically configure OBS settings based on the computer and upload bandwidth. Twitch said on May 30 that Dual Format uses that same system and that server-side transcoding will be added for Partners and many Affiliates to reduce the load on some machines. (blog.twitch.tv) ### ¿Qué pasa con el 2K y quiénes lo recibirán? Twitch said 2K streaming — also described by the company as 1440p — is moving into open beta for all Partners and Affiliates. In its 2025 TwitchCon Rotterdam announcement, Twitch described 2K as a step up from 1080p with more detail and clarity, after previously testing it in a closed beta with a smaller group of streamers. (blog.twitch.tv) The May 30 post groups that 2K expansion with other creator-facing quality upgrades. Twitch did not, in the material reviewed here, give a single universal launch day for every account, but it did present the update as part of the same current rollout cycle announced at TwitchCon Europe 2026. ### ¿Qué son los clips automáticos y los resúmenes con IA? (blog.twitch.tv) Twitch said it is adding automatic clips and channel summaries generated with AI as part of the same product update set announced in Rotterdam. The company framed those additions as tools to help creators surface highlights and give viewers faster context about a channel and its content. (blog.twitch.tv) The official post visible in search results does not spell out every workflow detail for those tools in the excerpted text, but it does place them alongside the viewing and quality upgrades unveiled at the event. ### ¿Qué viene ahora? Twitch said the Dual Format rollout begins “next month” from its May 30 announcement, and said 2K streaming is entering open beta for Partners and Affiliates. (blog.twitch.tv) The company also said the next TwitchCon Europe will be held in Berlin on May 22-23, 2027.