I still haven't spent a dime in Twitch since this announcement. I send money to streamers via PayPal. Win-win-lose (me-streamer-Twitch). I encourage everyone to do the same. ***** Twitch, not the streamers.

The minimum is better to be 5% of monthly minimum wage of your country, because USD100 is too much for poor countries. Poor country dont have a minimum wage montlhy like that.

This is not "disappointing for many of" us, but for absolutely everyone. Thing is, you claim 200 hs of streaming for 100 CCU costs $1000 (which we all know it's not real, you won't share the real number, and that's ok), but how much money does it produce for you? Sadly month has just change and I cannot bring the exact numbers, but a 100 CCU streamer makes way over that on subs alone in half the time, meaning you make it too, not to mention the 25-40% from bits, and the massive ad-revenue you also get. If you are allegedly investing $1000 (that you are not, you are an Amazon company, you are calling us stupid when you try to sell that you pay full retail price for what you described as "essentially Twitch video") every 200 hs for 100 CCU, it means you are making at least $5000 on top of that from subs alone.

On the other hand, half the tools you develop are either pointless or useless (like highlighting everyone in chat, or ruining the "about" section, or the new and useless "cue" to pester viewers into following, stolen from the Nightbot timers many streamers have), and the ones that work are 100% dependent on the viewers spending more money, and makes you the same increase in revenue share, so while you claim this "improvements" were made to increase revenue for streamers, they gave the same percentile increase on revenue to you, in regards to subs, and even higher in regards to ads (as the streamer share for ads was pitiful, and this was a desperate attempt to make us turn them on, because most streamers didn't play ads at all, so while your ad share is now lower, the amount of ads viewed skyrocketted), so don't try to sell it as if you are running a charity, because you aren't. In the last couple of years you've invested way more money into trying to circumvent adblocks (that are only used by like 10% of the viewership or less, and in blaming them when you break the platform and even subs and prime users start seeing extra ads, to the point of even banning people talking about it on platforms like reddit), than in any change to help streamers grow (which have been close to non-existent, with only the sad attempt of the Boost Train, that streamers had no control of, being worth mentioning, and the abherration that was your attempt to SELL us a place in a featured page).

And let's not forget that a big chunk of the "quality" improvements for viewers you've made overtime have been stolen from plugins, bots and addons, like animated emotes and the point system.

As for Prime subs, based on data from about 50 channels of different sizes I work with, we are talking about 1-3% of the total sub count, so for every $75-250 streamers make you, you get $2.5 less. Not to mention more than half the viewers don't have Prime, more than half of those that have it don't use twitch, and those who use it often forget, as it needs to be renewed manually every single month. You said it yourself, ALL the monetization products COMBINED increase the streamer's share by 15-65% total, and Prime subs represent 1-3% of that increase, that's on average way closer to 15 than to 65%.

You think force-feeding us this BS will make us say "poor guys, they are losing money"? Because that's what you are trying to sell RN, and we ain't buying. Do you know what every middle-size streamer will always say? "The worst problem about twitch if that you can't grow, you need to bring the people in from a different platform." Don't believe me? Ask any Partner on the small-side of the spectrum. Yes, I said partner, not affiliate. If a 20-50k followers partner sees this issue, imagine how real it is for an affiliate.

So streamers bring the people, streamers keep the people, streamers bring the revenue, and twitch brings instability to the platform due to trying to chase adblockers and stolen ideas. The pandemic lockdown is over, there's less people now. For everyone. And there's more and more platforms, smaller and larger, trying to sway communities. This whole things is basically "we'll be spending even less money on creators paychecks and forcing them to run more ads so we get even more money on top of that." I could describe it as a win-win situation for twitch, but meaning they win twice "we win once by paying you less, and we win again by making you sell stuff for us" and all while trying to convince us this is good for us!

And one final thought: If you keep 50% of the sub revenue "to signal that we’re in this together," why don't we have equal say?

You "have been carefully considering it" and come to the conclusion, you won't make it better nor leave the share at it is, no, you decide to make it worse overall. I highly disagree, that the key factors to the success of Twitch today is split 50/50 between the platform and the streamer. And the compensation is more ads, after Prime is not ad-free anymore. All other platforms make profit with better shares and they have infrastructure costs, too. Your statement doesn't make any sense. Not empathy wise nor long term business wise.

Wow this is such a bummer. Twitch, do you actually care about streamers and viewers? I'm going to switch to Youtube with my favorite streamers in literally NO time.

It's called compromise. We see your justification, but we don't care. We should be able to come to some type of middle ground and the ad incentive program does not seem like an appropriate step in the right direction. We don't feel like we're in this together because a partnership should be a two way street. I would bet my years revenue that creators put in more time and effort then twitch does. 22 thousand people is significant, and you said no. The people who work tirelessly just to afford to live and only receiving 50% from there total efforts. If you invest in your creators, You will gain more creators, and thus more viewers. Not to mention that a higher revenue split would generate a powerful incentive for current creators to work even harder. This is an issue that will not disappear.

we have fansly already memeing on it. im surprised facebook and youtube havent arleady sent you all gift baskets. is it going to take one of your bigger names to jump ship and make it public before you realize twenty percent of something is better than fifty percent of nothing.

Well, I was considering moving to YouTube, but this has sealed the deal. I am a very small streamer and I am not able to get any of my money out of Twich because I haven't even made $50.00 yet. I only stream 1 day a week if I can even get that, so bye bye Twitch.

Everyone who is leaving Twitch should let them know why so they understand their business practice of pooping on the little guys (and big guys now too) SUCKS!

It’s ******** and twitch doesn’t care at all I might switch to YouTube instead

And how ridiculous can you please be to disable the button ...

What a ******** justification. Simply more money in their own pockets. I will cancel all my subscriptions when the upcoming changes come into effect. What does Twitch do for a 50/50 share? The reasoning on costs are absolutely ridiculous. To expect prices for standard users ... laughable. On the contrary, Amazon contributes nothing to the network infrastructure, which they use for free like Youtube & co. The whole thing is paid for by us.

I very much hope that with the new 50/50 conditions, many streamers will no longer put up with it and switch to other streaming providers. To say that twitch and the streamer are equally involved in the streamer's success is outrageous enough but then to say over 22k people campaigned for a 70/30 share and in the same vein to offer 'equality' to all except a few really big streamers is complete rubbish. That has nothing to do with an equal pay for all streamers.

70:30 for all will be the more air move

This ain't it. Twitch, it was a great time but you guys are ruining the platform with the corporate greed. Tell your business managers to go away and do something with stocks on wall street or something, instead of trying to pressure out some money from creative people.

Also if you would actually have a high resolution input and output, I would believe your claims with the cost being +1000 USD. It is ridiculous to be capped to 5-6mbit/s upload. I still am waiting for the day, where I will have a lag free and compression artefact free video feed from twitch.

The 50/50 split is going to be the reason a lot of streamers switch platforms. Especially when you just booked expensive artists for twitch con. Why? It just doesn't seem logical and is a really bad idea for your own platform.

Twitch will be the EA of media outlets, this move isn’t the way to go, instead of taking a bigger piece of the pie, why don’t you guys just do what Netflix,Amazon, and Microsoft does. Give more to the people under one subscription. While buying out head corps that’s in competition, Netflix makes shows from video games which are great, Microsoft buys game developers to beat out other companies like Sony, amazon an ever expanding seller also makes movies, music and such… while twitch wants to dig deeper into content creators pockets… you guys can make any excuse and even if there’s some logical and valid points, in the end it will always be about money, some streamers live off this and you’re going to jeopardize their whole living… this is the wrong move! “Btw I know Amazon owns twitch, but twitch is still independent”

Lmao what idiots. I'm already seeing streamers planning on closing their accounts and buggering off back to Youtube.

The only thing twitch got on youtube right now is emotes, and that might change soon too. You gonna look at streamers and tell them shite where as youtube is saying they will pay fair AND offer native 1080? While you, a site built for streaming, only offer fake 1080 (900 resolution ****)?

Bad pay cuts, more ads than cable tv (8 in a row was bullshite) as well as them being repetitive, annoying and unskipable? And then putting in new features like the weird *** cheer **** where people cant use bits anymore? Like I had heard NOTHING but ******** on that one.

Yall don't listen to your streamers you gonna find you lose even more money. People will stop spending money for that ****, will do direct donos so you can't touch jack and then what you gonna do? Can't rely on ads cause they are getting so stupid people are just going to go "No" and click away and now only only do the streamer lose out but you too.

The number of times I just closed twitch out entirely and went to watch youtube cause of the **** ads is nuts, and I don't wanna do bits or subs if the STREAMER isn't getting good pay.

Wow

Y'all are owned by a megacorporation, you're not going under by paying people more fairly. Sorry not sorry, but streamers are the ones putting the time and effort and energy into streaming, and without the streamers there is no Twitch. Without Twitch? There are still streamers and other platforms. The streamers should be getting a larger cut of all income than the platform in all instances, at a minimum of 60/40. Amazon isn't about to let its precious gaming niche mine collapse, so let's be less greedy instead of more - because everyone really should be getting 70/30.

Nobody here wants this change, yet you're enforcing it on us anyway. So many creators rely on a good and fair revenue split so they can pay for their livelihoods. A 70/30 split gives 70% to the creator, and 30% to Twitch. This split actually showed we're supporting the streamers we care about. We did not want an "update" to the revenue split! Now, you're forcing all of us, including non-affiliates, to have a 50/50 split instead. But, the only people who won't be affected by this change will be the streamers on their premium deals. This makes it harder for us to support our favorite streamers. They love their job. Cutting the rev split makes it harder for us to support them. In the blog post, you even mentioned that you were owned by Amazon, a company that is literally worth trillions. Your AWS servers can't even support 8K bitrate. YouTube offers a fair 70/30 revenue split and over quadruple the bitrate. This change needs to be stopped. You are not in this together. So many of your creators are jumping ship to YouTube because of poor decisions like this. We demand that you move all creators to a 70/30 rev split and pay them quicker.