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Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning by idconvict on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:39PM (#35185330)
They already have a platform-level subscription. It's Twitch Turbo and costs ~$10/month. Removes all ads on the site. I don't think creators get any portion of it like with YouTube Premium though.
Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning by Lev1a on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:12PM (#35185920)
IIRC I heard years ago that Turbo "pays" the streamer for the non-watched ads which have been removed for the Turbo user, i.e. fractions of a cent, i.e. nothing. All it does is paying Twitch for doing fuck-all.
Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning by HWR_14 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:22PM (#35186082)
So Turbo pays the streamer the same amount per stream as the non-Turbo ad supported account? That sounds good and fair. I don't know why you would expect otherwise.

Heck, Turbo users probably watch more videos and so are better customers even at the same rate.

Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning by WJW on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:31PM (#35189784)
Rebroadcasting live video to potentially hundreds of thousands of people at once is hardly "fuck-all", that shit costs a lot of money to do well.
Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning by runevault on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:17PM (#35186007)
I thought they removed turbo for everyone outside Canada, or did they bring it back at some point?
Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning by nozzlegear on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:20PM (#35186951)
I'm in the US and have been subscribed to Turbo for over a year now, even though I rarely watch Twitch. I just keep my subscription so I don't have to be bothered with ads when I want to turn on a Twitch stream on my Apple TV.