According to an analysis from the Wall Street Journal, the top 1% of Twitch streamers made over 50% of all money paid out by the platform in 2021. Furthermore, just 5% of users had made over $1,000 in the same year. Only 0.06% had made over the U.S. median household income of $67,521. In a survey of 5,000 community members composed of smaller Twitch streamers, Stream Scheme found that 76% were not able to reach Twitch’s $100 minimum payout threshold. Most others were making between $25-130 per month on the platform.
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- Dec 2022
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every.to every.to
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In a 2021 leak of Twitch’s user data that included creator payouts, it was revealed that from August 2019 to October 2021, the top 100 streamers on the platform made anywhere between $9,626,712.16 and $886,999.17.
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- Jun 2022
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dev.twitch.tv dev.twitch.tv
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- Mar 2022
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www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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Twitch, the popular site where people go to watch other people play video games
That's an oversimplification -- even video game streamers spend a lot of time just talking to their audience or watching videos.
Twitch provides on-demand, human connection (like radio or TV before it).
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- Feb 2021
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nymag.com nymag.com
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A synopsis of some of what Twitter has been doing wrong, opportunities squandered, and what it could be doing. Reasonable analysis of what some new competitors are doing to generate value in tangential spaces.
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