Twitch and Streaming

Live-streaming content has been a growing market over the past decade. With the possibility to make millions often from home doing what you love, many have jumped at the opportunity. The most well-known dedicated streaming site is Twitch.

As more people every day get access to reliable and cheap internet, and with more and more working from home, Twitch is gaining in popularity. People like being able to watch their favorite creators in real time, where they have a chance to interact with them as well. Creators, too, find this a fun way to interact with their audience as well as having a far more reliable stream of revenue over sites such as YouTube. Twitch can be extremely profitable for charismatic people, and a successful creator will see Twitch as a serious competitor to a real job. The benefit of Twitch for creators is that they can largely do what they enjoy on their own time and still make more than they may doing something which they don't enjoy. 

Just yesterday it was revealed (though it wasn't really a secret since most people publicly show their sub count) how much creators make on Twitch just from subscriber accounts. It's a lot. Many YouTubers may look at these numbers and question why they even waste their time on YouTube when they see dwindling returns and arbitrary removals. While I still prefer YouTube, many of my previously watched creators have switched to streaming as it is more profitable and less work than spending hours recording and then having to edit a video. 

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