Fun, fame, and profit. Some of these YouTube streamers bring in over 150k a year in advertising revenue. Most of these are young kids (preteen), some actually teenagers.
Twitch streamers can bring in several hundreds of thousands a year in stream donations. My oldest (17/m) doesn't watch traditional TV. He's unfamiliar, largely, with commercials. Sports on TV? No way. He watches Hulu, Netflix, but mainly YouTube/twitch. There's a new eSports bar going up here in KC. I bet they end up with more net profit in the first year than the local Buffalo Wild Wings. Mix of bar w/ pub food, TVs streaming games/championships, and actual PCs/gaming (half-hourly charges). On Dec 4, 2016 10:39 AM, "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > I was born without the gaming gene, so can someone explain Twitch to me? > > > > I have a customer spending a lot of money (now that harvest is over) for a > speed tier with 5 Mbps of upstream so he can broadcast. Which I see he > does for 12 hours straight. > > > > What is the appeal? Fun? Fame? Or profit? Does this bring in > advertising money? Enough to make it worthwhile? > > > > And how does someone stream their game play for 12 hours straight? > Astronaut diapers? Lots of Mountain Dew and Doritos? Or do they get > breaks? >
