Twitch reportedly wants a bigger cut of streamers' revenue. Also, it thinks they should try …

Twitch is reportedly weighing major changes to its creator monetization—and streamers on the whole are not happy. According to a report from Bloomberg, the Amazon-owned platform is looking to profit more from Partner streamers’ channel subscriptions. Right now, viewers can subscribe to a creator’s channel for between $5 and $25 per month. Partners, in general, get 70% of that price, and Twitch takes 30%. (We say “in general” because Partners have individual contracts with Twitch, and the details of those contracts aren’t made public, so it’s possible some are making more or less than 70% of channel sub revenue.)Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top StoriesSubscribe Twitch is considering upping its own cut to 50%, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. That would bring Partner streamers down to the 50/50 split Twitch currently has with Affiliate streamers. (You can read about the differences between Partners and Affiliates here.) But that change isn’t set in stone. Twitch is also considering another option: a tier-based system, where some Partners would continue making 70% from channel subs while some would make the new, lower 50%. That system apparently might involve an incentive where Partners who are willing to fork over 50% of their channel…
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