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Re:Twitch: Lessons Learned by andrewzah on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:42PM (#27489063)
Twitch will never ban one of their huge sources of revenue.
Re:Twitch: Lessons Learned by meheleventyone on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:57AM (#27490705)
Is it a huge source of revenue?

The category never seems like it gets above 20k concurrent and that’s mostly for a couple of streamers. Right now it’s the 55th most popular category with 4.4K concurrent viewers which is two orders of magnitude less than the most popular category.

Re:Twitch: Lessons Learned by cdirkx on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:23AM (#27491365)
That is if you equate viewership with revenue, but most Twitch streamers I have heard talking about this is that the income from advertisements (scales with viewership) is lower than income from subscribers/donations (also scales with viewership, but more so with willingness to donate).
Re:Twitch: Lessons Learned by meheleventyone on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:44AM (#27491475)
Right but we don't have access to conversion rate by category to compare. And it'd have to convert ludicrously well and the other categories ludicrously badly for it to get anywhere near being relevant to Twitch's revenue. Personally I'd suspect the advertising revenue for the Top 10 streaming categories (over a million concurrent viewers right now) to far outstrip the sub revenue from the Hot Tub category (4.5k viewers) all by itself.
Re:Twitch: Lessons Learned by moogly on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:10AM (#27490761)
DrDisrespect?
Re:Twitch: Lessons Learned by 1_player on Sunday June 13, 2021 @07:38AM (#27491702)
Doc had a multi million $ contract with Twitch, while I bet these bathtub streamers don't, so they're cheaper, and get even more money in donation from very lonely viewers.