Top streamers get twitchy
Top Twitch streamers are voicing their anger about reported plans by the Amazon-owned platform to boost profits by cutting pay-outs in its partnerships program., Twitch is considering a number of changes to increase the revenue it collects from its most popular streamers.
As a concession, Twitch could release partners from exclusivity clauses, letting them stream on rivals like YouTube and Facebook.stressed that “updates to the partnerships program aren’t finalized and could be abandoned,” while Twitch refused to comment on the news to the publication.In response, many streamers said the mooted changes would make life harder, and could force them to move to rival platforms.
“Subscriptions are more important to the life of every streamer than almost any other utility Twitch offers and to touch the split is to financially devastate and potentially remove thousands of full-time creators from your platform it [sic] immediately,”
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