givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The streamers think they’re the stars and partners with the streaming company…
But the company is always going to treat them as products with incredibly short shelf lives under even the best conditions.
Twitch doesn’t view them as real people, and knows even if they do quit or are harmed even killed, millions of barely adults would kill to take their place.
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 18 hours ago
The problem is kick, that grows up with much better revenue split while Twitch is so incompetent that they may at some point lose the first mover advantage
warm@kbin.earth 18 hours ago
As much as Twitch needs gutting, Kick is much worse.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 hours ago
Right? Kick literally had a mentally ill man die on stream and tried to erase their tracks to avoid responsibility.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Twitch has no comepetiton. As of 2024 they had 61% of total watch time across all live streaming platfomrs. It’s the kind of share that other industries would kill to have. None of the other streaming markets or even VOD platforms can achieve these numbers.
Take music streaming, Spotify only has ~32% of the market share even though they are kind of ubiquitous with music streaming at this point.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t know where you’ve got those figures from, but according to this source, youTube has over 50% of the live streaming market, as measured in watch-hours. Then it’s TikTok, and then twitch.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
streamhatchet.com/…/2024-yearly-report-in-live-st…
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 16 hours ago
Out of curiosity, how much did they have in 2019?
snoons@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I like where thone numbers are going.