Streamers say reported cuts to Twitch pay-outs won’t go down well

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge

The top streamers on the platform are angry about the reported plans by the platform to boost profits by cutting pay-outs.

A number of changes are being considered to increase the revenue it collects from its most popular streamers. Encouraging streamers to run more ads, reducing revenue share for streamers from 70 percent to 50 percent, and introducing a new tier system allowing streamers to graduate through different revenue splits are some of the things that are included.

The concession allows partners to stream on rivals like YouTube and Facebook. Update to the partnerships program aren't finalized and could be abandoned, while the publication refused to comment on the news.

Many streamers said that the changes would make life harder, and could force them to move to another platform. The company has no serious competition in the streaming world, allowing it to make money.

The life of every streamer is more important to them than almost any other utility, and to touch the split is to financially devastate and potentially remove thousands of full-time creators from your platform immediately.

What a joke. Jacksepticeye said that it makes it worse for everyone except twitch themselves.

The platform's biggest names don't have anywhere else to go.

hate to say it but twitch only makes moves like this because they think there is no competitor in the livestreaming space. mixer is dead, fb is a black hole for relevance, and yt is too big to care abt livestreaming and to slow to change. they threw at some creators & stopped

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) April 27, 2022

twitch only makes moves like this because they think there is no competitor in the livestreaming space.

Stanz, a streamer, said that a tier system that automatically moves you higher would be better than begging for a split. It sounds good to me.

The Amazon-owned streaming service has over 50,000 people in its partnership program. If the streamer allows it, viewers can pay $5 a month to subscribe to channels and then split the revenue with content creators.

The company as a whole has been hit by slowing growth, but Amazon does not break out revenue figures for the company. In its most recent earning report, although sales increased nearly $8 billion in the first quarter of the year, analysts still don't like Amazon's lower-than- expected projections for the second quarter.