The Internet’s Biggest Stream…Was Fake? – The Publish Press

Good morning. Bob’s Burgers ’ Eugene Mirman released his first comedy special in a decade for free on YouTube —a move increasingly common among creators like Gianmarco Soresi and Hank Green. So if you see us workshopping material at a few open mics around town, mind your business. Today’s lineup: Twitch cracks down on viewbotting Dhar Mann Studios’ CEO shares deal-making tips for creators Druski spends six figures on a sketch Inside IShowSpeed’s Viewbotted Stream Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announces a temporary concurrent viewer cap to select streams / Photography by Xuthoria/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Last week, IShowSpeed revealed that his record-breaking YouTube stream in the Dominican Republic (which reported 1.9M peak concurrent viewers) actually peaked at 300K. The additional 1.6M viewers came from viewbots—automated accounts made to artificially inflate the viewership of a livestream. How viewbotting works: Creators (or in some cases, a third party) pay viewbotting services to add views to a stream—charging between $0.28 and $10 for 10 views, depending on the platform and service provider. Representatives from YouTube confirmed that Speed did not pay for viewbots on his own stream, noting that creators who repeatedly violate the policy risk channel termination . A growing issue: Last year
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