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With a few big names associated with it, Kick is a hot topic of gossip among the streaming community these days. Many prominent Twitch streamers have already made the switch to the Stake-funded platform. Thus, it sparked the ‘Kick vs. Twitch’ war, and amidst the two platforms’ comparison, there are talks about Kick making Twitch money. Just a few days ago, while streaming, Pokimane reacted to Kick and xQc’s whopping $100 million deal, expressing that Twitch indirectly makes money from Kick. For those unfamiliar, Imane “Pokimane” referred to Kick using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Interactive Video Service (IVS), owned by Amazon. Moreover, Amazon is also Twitch’s parent company; the purple platform is a subsidiary of the e-commerce giant. Therefore, this resulted in many people believing Pokimane’s claims on ‘Kick making Twitch money’ to be true. Although Kick uses Twitch’s parent company’s services, the money flow is not what it appears to be. In fact, recently, in an interview, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy himself clarified, concluding this ongoing debate. CEO Dan Clancy reveals Twitch makes no money from Kick In an interview, Dan Clancy finally revealed that Twitch and Kick have no business with each other. In fact, the Twitch

When streaming on Twitch, you can repurpose your streams in other places online. Here's everything you need to know.   Many educators in the streaming space say that it’s nearly impossible to grow an audience through streaming alone. You'll often hear them mention that you need to post on platforms with discoverability, like YouTube and TikTok. We’ll discuss five ideas for how you can do that today. 1. Start by Pre-Purposing Before you think about cutting down stream highlights for other platforms, start by planning a stream that has structure. A structure gives the stream itself momentum and makes editing it down into a cohesive video that much easier. Try planning your streams with a goal or challenge, a unique premise, or something that would otherwise allow you to make one or more structured, cohesive videos with an arc of beginning, middle, and end. The structure doesn’t even need to be super creative, but any plan is better than no plan. Also, make sure to locally record while streaming for higher video quality when editing. This is especially important if you downscale your stream to better optimize your broadcast under Twitch's 6,000 kbps bitrate limit. 2. Create Long-Form YouTube Videos

Twitch is introducing another revenue-generating chat tool for streamers. Its current creator monetization offerings include channel subscriptions (which start at $4.99 a month), donations/gifts (where viewers can give streamers straight-up cash), and cheering, which is done with an onsite currency called Bits. Now, Twitch is adding “Hype Chat,” where viewers can pay to have their chat messages pinned for specific periods of time. And, unlike those aforementioned monetization methods, Hype Chat has a revenue split of 70/30. (We’ll get into that more below.)Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top StoriesSubscribe Streamers can set up various pricing tiers of Hype Chat messages, and “the duration, character count, and visual design of the pin will depend on how much a viewer spends,” Twitch says. “igher value Hype Chats will stay at the top of chat longer, have longer allowed character counts, and have more standout designs.” Prices can range between $1 and $500, at streamers’ discretion. The highest minimum charge they can set is $100. Messages will be scanned by AutoMod, and if it detects banned words/phrases or other potentially harmful material, it won’t let the Hype Chat purchase be completed. If something were to slip through, streamers and their mods have the ability

Game livestreaming has long been confined to its own world, but a new €92 million deal might just have rocked the world of streaming to its foundations. Twelve years ago, Twitch - a website created for video gamers wishing to livestream their actions - was launched in the United States by two Yale graduates.It was bought by Amazon for $970 million (€892 million) two years later, and today, it’s the leader in live game streaming.This week, the gaming world was rocked when two of Twitch’s top users announced they were leaving the website to join Australian rival Kick.This blow to the Amazon-owned company goes beyond gaming and might be a sign that streaming itself is changing.How it all kicked offKick was only launched in December to compete with Twitch, where moderation is strict and gambling isn’t accepted. Kick, on the other hand, is backed by crypto casino website Stake.The platform is determined to change gaming and knows Twitch well. Kick’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Andrew Santamaria, worked at Amazon Games for three years.As per a recent LinkedIn post written by the executive, Kick treats its streamers as “stars” and has one of the lowest revenue charges among streaming websites. While

Twitch is introducing a new feature, Hype Chat, that lets users pay to pin messages at the top of a streamer’s chat feed.If you’ve seen YouTube’s Super Chats, which the company first announced in 2017, then Hype Chats should look pretty familiar. Streamers will be able to set how much Hype Chats cost (with a minimum of up to $100 and a maximum of up to $500), and based on how much you pay, you’ll have a better-looking chat. “Higher value Hype Chats will stay at the top of chat longer, have longer allowed character counts, and have more standout designs,” Twitch said in a blog post. Right now, the feature is only available on the web, Twitch spokesperson Adiya Taylor tells The Verge.Here’s what Hype Chats look like. GIF: TwitchDepending on how many Hype Chats a streamer gets, they could prove to be lucrative. Twitch is offering a 70 percent revenue split of net payment costs on the web for purchases of Hype Chats.That said, there are pretty obvious ways a bad actor could pay for Hype Chats to harass a streamer. To prevent situations like that, Twitch put a few safety features in place: viewers cannot send Hype Chat

Claim your rewards! Twitch Drops are an excellent way to get in-game rewards that you might not be able to get ahold of otherwise, and they can be pretty simple to pick up once you’ve linked all the correct accounts and know what you have to do to cash in. More often than not, cashing in Twitch Drops usually requires you to watch a certain amount of content from any creator about the game before you are rewarded your prize. If you’re looking for extra rewards for Battlebit Remastered, this is a great way to do so. If you’re a bit intimidated by the process, we’ve got everything you need to know to make the process easier. How to Get Battlebit Remastered Twitch Drops The first step toward cashing in your Twitch Drops is done through the ‘connections’ option within the in-game menu of Battlebit Remastered or, alternatively, through the Link Twitch Account page in a browser. Once you’ve connected your accounts, you’ll be able to get onto the main challenge, which is consuming enough content to be entitled to the rewards. From June 15, the early access launch date of the game, Twitch Drops will be available for BattleBit

Home News (Image credit: Skodonnell via Getty images.) Twitch has added mandatory content labels for all streamers so that viewers "can make informed choices", and gone into some detail about what behaviours it wants labelled from now on. The labels replace the existing "Mature Content" toggle and can be applied or removed at any point during a broadcast.The "Content Classification Labels" are:Mature-Rated GamesSexual ThemesDrugs, Intoxication, or Excessive Tobacco UseViolent and Graphic DepictionsSignificant Profanity or VulgarityGamblingTwitch goes on to warn that should streamers fail to accurately label their content, the label will be applied by Twitch and they'll receive a warning. Should streamers persist after multiple warnings, their account can be locked for "days or weeks" depending on the circumstances. Interestingly enough, should a streamer be playing a game rated by the ESRB as for mature audiences only, a "mature-rated" content label will automatically be applied to the stream.There's then an interesting FAQ where Twitch grapples with the big questions, such as if a streamer who swears occasionally will need the "significant profanity or vulgarity" label on their stream. This is very fuzzy stuff. Twitch says no, but says "cussing someone out in a game lobby" would require the label, so

How to unlock XDefiant Twitch Drops in the open beta to carry over to the main gameThe XDefiant open beta kicks off today and you can unlock a bunch of weapon skins for the game thanks to Twitch Drops.The XDefiant open beta lets you unlock two weapon skins to carry over to the main game through the Twitch Drops program (Image: Ubisoft)Ubisoft is opening up its next XDefiant beta to everyone today, and while you can't carry progress over to the main game when it launches later this summer, you can carry over the Twitch Drops weapons skins so it's worth getting your hands on them. XDefiant is releasing this summer, and ahead of the game's launch Ubisoft is holding an open beta that goes live today for players on PS5, Xbox Series X and PC. Just like the closed beta, the XDefiant open beta is only for gamers on current-gen console despite the full game being available on PS4 and Xbox One. On that note, the XDefiant preload and early access is available to those of you participated in the closed beta; everyone else has to wait until 6pm BST / 1pm EDT / 10am PDT today. Once you're

Debate Between AI Doppelgangers of Donald Trump and Joe Biden Featured on Twitch The live feed includes ample insults and an interactive chat The debate of the century Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been engaging in an unending debate over on Twitch.tv — or, rather, AI doppelgangers of them have. The two artificial-intelligence-fueled presidential lookalikes are trapped in an uncensored roast-off that’s been running for over a day. The stream is not just for watching, but also for interacting. Twitch users can comment in the chat for a shot at the AI presidents responding to them in real time. The AI presidents use a lot of profanity, so beware of watching the duel in an inappropriate venue. “You probably drive a Prius like the liberal dog you are,” Trump said at one point during the tense exchange. “The only thing that gets me harder than a wall is seeing Sleepy Joe get owned again and again.” Trump then started describing his immense knowledge of the “Transformers” universe and his unrivaled ability to stop alien invaders. Biden fired back, saying Trump couldn’t beat Rosie O’Donnell in a slap fight, let alone Transformers. The Twitch channel running the operation, trumporbiden2024, appears

Kick just had the biggest weekend of its existence. It signed xQc–arguably Twitch‘s most prominent streamer in terms of watch time–for a $100 million deal, signed Amouranth for a similar deal reportedly worth $30-40 million, and then scooped up over a million new users between the signings’ June 17 announcements and now. Whether xQc and Amouranth are fully leaving Twitch isn’t clear. We do know xQc’s Kick contract (which, BTW, is worth more than LeBron James‘ recent Lakers deal) is a two-year, non-exclusive deal, meaning if he wants to keep streaming on Twitch as well as Kick, he’s free to.Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top StoriesSubscribe But will he want to? Maybe not. xQc–IRL name Felix Lengyel–has been openly critical of Twitch’s policies numerous times in the past. And Twitch hasn’t exactly been endearing itself to the creator community as a whole, with its drop from a 70/30 revenue split to a 50/50 split (though it’s walking that back for streamers who can hit stringent requirements) and its recent effort to introduce branded content policies that would’ve strangled streamers’ ability to secure sponsorships. It decided not to implement that branded content policy, but during the day or so where creators thought