If you’re a streamer or a gamer who uses platforms like twitch.tv , Mixer , Youtube Gaming these news should concern you.
Amazon ‘s Twitch.tv Microsoft ‘s Mixer Google ‘s Youtube Gaming , Facebook ‘s Facebook Gaming all are in a war right now for the throne of ‘Best streaming platform around the globe’.
So you guys must’ve already heard the news of Ninja joining Mixer.
The prized possession, the crown of Twitch was stolen or to be specific bought out.
Shots had been fired, and everyone was waiting for Twitch’s response.
Twitch deceided to sign Nick Eh 30 the 4.6M followers Youtube Streamer.
Nick Eh 30 is a 24 Year old Canadian who streams Fortnite every single day.
Nick Eh 30 is partnered with ASUS ROG.
Also Caffeine the another lesser known Game streaming platform entered the frey by signing Offset a rapper who is supposed to run 2 game centric shows for this platform. 20th Century Fox invested $100 million into this streaming service last year to bring sports and live music to the platform.
At first Mixer stole the Crown i.e. Ninja and now the King was gone.
People were shocked to hear Shroud, The King of Reddit has joined Mixer.
This was the ultimate grab, Mixer had acquired ‘Shroud’.
Shroud is an retired Counter-Strike : Global Offensive Professional player, who had 7M followers on twitch and endorsements from brands like HyperX.
Mixer kept going and signed Cory ‘King Gothalion’ Michael a twitch streamer with 1M following, primarily known for streaming Destiny .
Twitch bought NICKMERCS
NICKMERCS is a super streamer with 3M followers on Twitch , 2M SUBS on Youtube , 1.1M followers on Twitter and 14 K concurrent viewers on streams before getting signed.
Twitch signed DrDisrespect
Earlier when Ninja made the switch DrDisrespect stated that for him to go to Mixer the numbers should have to be crazy.
He said he must be paid at least whatever Ninja got or possibly even more. So one has to wonder what Doc got paid and for what period of time he is signed to Twitch.
Mixer fired back again by signing FaZe Ewok.
Ewok is a 14 year female Twitch streamer, who had a quarter Million followers.
She is the first ever female content creator for FaZe Clan.
Youtube decided to jump into the battle and then,
100 Thieves content creator CourageJD announced that he will be streaming exclusively to Youtube.
Courage boasted 2.1 M followers on Twitch before switching to Youtube.
Then Facebook Gaming decided to enter by signing few big names.
Facebook signed 2 Spanish Streamer NexxusHD and Lolito FDEZ.
Later Facebook also signed Hearthstone streamer Disguised Toast a 28 Year Canadian.
Key things to remember: We have just started, we got a long way to go.
Even though Mixer is signing big names and pouring Millions of dollars on their platform, Twitch looks to be way ahead in the race.
But one key thing is that these streamers have signed multi year multi-million contracts with Mixer. So even if Mixer looks like it is losing, Things might be different by next year’s November.
The thing to watch out for is,
Streamers like Pokimane, Scump the King of COD, Crimsix, chocoTaco, Cloakzy, the ultimate streaming legend summit1g, and many more are still unsigned.
If these people get signed too by other platforms by next year then we can see a world where twitch will have to up their standards in order to hold onto the market.
Twitch really needs to fix their issues, Banning innocent people and cutting slack to big streamers like Alinity Divine is one of many reasons streamers are jumping the ship.
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