Comments by "ChineseKiwi" (@ChineseKiwi) on "From Gaming to Hot Tubs - What Happened To Twitch?" video.

  1. What you failed to mention is that, although yes, Twitch needs to get more profitable, their older strategies got strong backlash and thus they have been smarter about monetising it more - e.g the later developments of offering quite good deals with manually running ads, that pay based on your audience, that the streamer can specify when and how much they run. The more they run the ads, the more they get paid byt that is up to the streamer to decide. This pushes people who are annoyed by the ads to subscribe to the streamer to avoid them, giving both Twitch and the streamer far more revenue from that viewer. Also Twitch will be launching a platform for all streamers to get sponsored streams directly from them. As you know being a YouTuber, you often have to navigate through these sponsorships to see if they are legit or pay well. Twitch will do this for the streamer and will help a lot of "mid tier" and below streamers who can't afford managers to do this. Not to mention likely better vetting processes. It lacks details at the moment, like Twitch's cut of it, but all this indicates a shift towards a more balanced approach while monetising Twitch more.
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  2. ​ @LogicallyAnswered  What you failed to mention is that, although yes, Twitch needs to get more profitable, their older strategies got strong backlash and thus they have been smarter about monetising it more - e.g the later developments of offering quite good deals with manually running ads, that pay based on your audience, that the streamer can specify when and how much they run. The more they run the ads, the more they get paid byt that is up to the streamer to decide. This pushes people who are annoyed by the ads to subscribe to the streamer to avoid them, giving both Twitch and the streamer far more revenue from that viewer. Also Twitch will be launching a platform for all streamers to get sponsored streams directly from them. As you know being a YouTuber, you often have to navigate through these sponsorships to see if they are legit or pay well. Twitch will do this for the streamer and will help a lot of "mid tier" and below streamers who can't afford managers to do this. Not to mention likely better vetting processes. It lacks details at the moment, like Twitch's cut of it, but all this indicates a shift towards a more balanced approach while monetising Twitch more.
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  3. Twitch is very top heavy as well - based on the Twitch income leaks, only around 2500 people IN THE WORLD make enough to be full time.
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