In a blog post on Wednesday, Twitch’s president, Dan Clancy, said that they would still receive this cut on the first $100,000 earned over a 12-month period but then 50 percent after that.Īll other streamers on the platform receive a 50 percent cut. These premium partners now receive a 70 percent cut. Now the company is reducing what it calls premium deals - agreements that give popular streamers a larger cut of subscription revenue than others on the service. YouTube Gaming, the internet’s second-most-popular service, topped out at 1.13 billion hours.Ī month after two of them left, Twitch announced that it was lifting its exclusivity ban. The company announced on Tuesday that it would prohibit the streaming of gambling sites that involved slots, roulette or dice games that were not licensed in the United States and certain other territories.įrom April through June, people watched 5.64 billion hours of streams on Twitch across 9.6 million distinct channels on the service, according to data from StreamLabs, a streaming software company.
“They are just making the platform less appealing to streamers.”Ī Twitch spokeswoman said executives were unable to discuss the situation for this article.Īs it rolls out this new revenue-sharing plan, the company also faces questions about gambling on its service, including protests by some streamers against channels that promote gambling. “I know they have to make money somewhere, but this just seems like a bad business decision,” said Kaitlyn Siragusa, a Twitch streamer known as Amouranth, who has almost six million followers and almost 15,000 subscribers and is likely to be affected by the change.
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