Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer

Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by DanBlake on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:36PM (#8968993)

Is the fact that subscriptions are recurring accounted for? If you get 1k subscriptions a month at 2.50 each, on month 2 you make 5k, no 2500 (assuming no drop off)

Also, I would say that the vast amount of streamers revenue comes from donations- Its trivial to see this is the case, just watch a large stream in action like sodapopping or the like, and you will see "blah has just donated x$" show up on their stream every 30 seconds or so.

FWIW, I am fairly certain the top streamers make over 50k a month very easily. However, those numbers drop very rapidly. The top 20 streamers most likely make as much as the next 5000 combined. And those 5000 make more than the next 10,000.

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Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by therealdrag0 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:41PM (#8969033)

I haven't used Twitch much, would there be a way to scrape the donations? Is it only showed in video or also in chat or something?

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Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by malahay on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:45PM (#8969063)

not in any way I could think of. It's usually only shown in the video and sometimes not even then. The chat does write when someone subscribes though, that's how I managed to scrape the subscriptions.

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Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by malahay on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:39PM (#8969015)

Hi Dan, nope the recurrence is not accounted, I didn't have any way of capturing it :)

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Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by iza on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:55PM (#8969110)

Actually the subscription doesn't automatically renew. After 30 days they lose it and need to resubscribe, so I think your data should be fine.

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Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by DanBlake on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:59PM (#8969135)

> Actually the subscription doesn't automatically renew. After 30 days they lose it and need to resubscribe, so I think your data should be fine.

As far as I know (And from a cursory google search) it appears they do auto renew

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Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by tyrust on Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:03PM (#8969466)

As a subscriber, I can confirm that it does auto-renew.

Also, twitch recently added the option to share the fact that you have paid for another month (by not cancelling) [0]. Taking note of these notifications is possible and would capture some of the resubscription data.

[0] - http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/01/subscription-announcements/

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Re:Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer by iza on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:23PM (#8969786)

Oh my mistake. I remember a lot of people needing to manually re-sub but I guess they had just turned off the auto-renew option.

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