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trunkswd said:
BraLoD said:

I remember getting monetized on Twitch was really easy, barely anyone watched my livestreams back at the pandemic when I was doing it and I still got it, tho I never kept for long enough to get the dolar value necessary to actually get a payment lol.

Twitch requirements are still really easy to become an Affiliate. All you need are 25 followers, stream for 4 hours on 4 different days, and average at least 3 viewers 4 different days in the last 30 days. Very easy to hit. 

To become Twitch Partner requires an average of 75 viewers or more over the course of 6 streams in a 30 day period. 

I'm a Twitch Affiliate, but only get a handful of viewers per stream. I just do it for the fun of it and what little I make goes towards buying games. 

I'm a Twitch Affiliate too o/ thanks to someone who a couple of years ago raided my stream with almost 100 raiders.

Unfortunately, I kinda gave up on Twitch. I only have 103 followers, and most of my streams had 0 or 1 people watching it. On Youtube I'm over 1.040 subscribers, and it's growing on a regular basis.



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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
trunkswd said:

Twitch requirements are still really easy to become an Affiliate. All you need are 25 followers, stream for 4 hours on 4 different days, and average at least 3 viewers 4 different days in the last 30 days. Very easy to hit. 

To become Twitch Partner requires an average of 75 viewers or more over the course of 6 streams in a 30 day period. 

I'm a Twitch Affiliate, but only get a handful of viewers per stream. I just do it for the fun of it and what little I make goes towards buying games. 

I'm a Twitch Affiliate too o/ thanks to someone who a couple of years ago raided my stream with almost 100 raiders.

Unfortunately, I kinda gave up on Twitch. I only have 103 followers, and most of my streams had 0 or 1 people watching it. On Youtube I'm over 1.040 subscribers, and it's growing on a regular basis.

I've been streaming on Twitch since 2014. Though, been on and off. At one point many years ago I got 20-30 viewers per stream. Now I'm lucky to get 5. But at this point I just stream whatever game I'd play whether I would be streaming or not. So mainly single player stuff. 

Nice work on growing on YouTube. I've been stuck around ~9,700 subs for years. 



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I don't think that makes a difference; my sister has a makeup channel and only started earning a considerable amount of money after hitting 5,000 subscribers. The important thing is steady subscriber growth, because the amount of money a channel makes with 2,000 subscribers probably won't be substantial.



It was to be expected, really.

I mean the crazy storage and memory prices are affecting Youtube probably the most of all companies as they need to constantly expand their storage to fit all those videos from creators, and even though they get a better deal due to the sheer mass that they're buying, they still get massively hurt by the triple-digit price hikes of storage mediums.

It's either that or have 5+ ads in videos of just a couple minutes for them to pay their bills, so pick your poison.