Co-Streaming Guidelines gamescom

This year, gamescom 2024 will take place on-site in Cologne and online from 20 to 25 August 2024. In addition to gamescom: Opening Night Live, you can also watch our other shows on gamescom now, Youtube and Twitch - in both German and English.

You want to co-stream the exciting gamescom shows? We have a prepared a few guidelines for you here, including a couple of valuable tips on programme design and creative procedures:

• Important: Anyone can distribute gamescom on his or her own personal channel – irrespective of the platform.
• Here it is important that:
  
  • No rights of third parties are violated (these include copyrights, trademark rights, etc.)
  • No content is shown that is racist, homophobic, defamatory, obscene, libelous or glorifies violence
  • No applicable laws are violated (especially criminal law and youth protection)
  • No advertising for the following products or services is actively integrated:
    
    • nicotine, alcohol, cannabis and other addictive substances
    • party politics, especially election advertising
    • pornography
    • gambling, lotteries, casino, poker, sports betting or comparable
    • item or in-game currency trading outside of first party platforms or official offerings
    • online key sales (e.g. MMOGA, G2A & Co.), insofar as these do not involve licensed dealers (e.g. Gamesplanet, Green Man Gaming, Humble Bundle, etc.)
• automated pop-ups, upon which the streamer exercises no influence, are principally permitted and are excluded from the criteria for exclusion listed above
• Here you will find all community guidelines if you choose to live-stream via Youtube, or Twitch .