They still need to use payment processors, right? Those payment processors wouldn’t allow adult contents. Those that do, charge significantly more for each transaction.
We don’t know because Twitch is owned by Amazon and they don’t give out the financial info of that subsidiary. It could well be that Amazon is subsidizing Twitch as a strategic move.
Market research company Nielsen estimates that Twitch brought in revenue from all sources of about $2 billion in 2020.6
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The parent company reportedly has set a target of $1 billion a year in advertising alone from Twitch. Most guesstimates suggest that it has not yet reached that level.
If that’s accurate, ads make up less than half, with the rest being merch, subs, and bits. I’m guessing subs and bits are the biggest piece of the pie (if we combine them), followed by ads.
you are thinking of points, partners have channel points(that they can name whatever) that you earn as you watch them. those can be used for channel redemption. Bits are paid for currency that lets you do different things per streamer depending on what they have setup.
We need people to ditch these corporate shit hole platforms. All of the technology is becoming come all the ties and so anyone can just whip one of these up on their computer and serve it to the world, the only really bureaucratic restrictions exist preventing this
Streaming video to millions of people isn’t just something anyone could whip up and run. It requires an ungodly amount of infrastructure and the only reason twitch and YouTube can keep going is because Amazon and Google own millions of servers world wide
you use bittorrent. peertube can do this already and while I’m unsure about what already existing tech you can use for streaming it can’t be that complicated
Morality policing is dumb. If she wants to stream through her chest or butt, more power to her.
It’s the advertisement companies that are far behind the times. They ruin everything they touch because they are so sensitive to Karen types.
Doesn’t Twitch make most of its money through donations, and the insanely high cut Twitch takes from them?
They still need to use payment processors, right? Those payment processors wouldn’t allow adult contents. Those that do, charge significantly more for each transaction.
I find it hard to believe Amazon can’t roll their own payment processor.
Kinda hard to do that when Visa themself don’t like their card to be used for user-generated porns.
We don’t know because Twitch is owned by Amazon and they don’t give out the financial info of that subsidiary. It could well be that Amazon is subsidizing Twitch as a strategic move.
Best guess is subs and bits make the most:
If that’s accurate, ads make up less than half, with the rest being merch, subs, and bits. I’m guessing subs and bits are the biggest piece of the pie (if we combine them), followed by ads.
Wait you can buy bits? I thought they were earnt by watchtime and clicking on a little button next to chat.
you are thinking of points, partners have channel points(that they can name whatever) that you earn as you watch them. those can be used for channel redemption. Bits are paid for currency that lets you do different things per streamer depending on what they have setup.
Yup, it’s like $1 for 100 bits or something.
We need people to ditch these corporate shit hole platforms. All of the technology is becoming come all the ties and so anyone can just whip one of these up on their computer and serve it to the world, the only really bureaucratic restrictions exist preventing this
Streaming video to millions of people isn’t just something anyone could whip up and run. It requires an ungodly amount of infrastructure and the only reason twitch and YouTube can keep going is because Amazon and Google own millions of servers world wide
you use bittorrent. peertube can do this already and while I’m unsure about what already existing tech you can use for streaming it can’t be that complicated
It literally is though
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