I rather say the number of ads, even streamers complain about being required to have a certain number of ads per hour which is a problem youtube also has
Yup, people went to internet video to escape TV ads and were happy to accept lower quality production in exchange. The idea of getting TV ads now on this low quality product is a nonstarter
Hey, Company Man. You should definitely do a video on the decline of Hanna-Barbera. The animation studio was known for their popular cartoons such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Magilla Gorilla, Jonny Quest, etc. Also, they known for their wacky sound effects we heard throughout pop culture today. I want to know how did they started and what led to their downfall. It would be great if you could do a video on Hanna-Barbera. Pretty please?
I am not that familiar with Hanna-Barbera's lesser known cartoons or much of their history, but it does surprise me how they managed to get so many cartoons made in such a short time during the 60s and 70s. Today only a handful of their cartoons seem to be remembered.
Twitch's real biggest issue: 1)Transcoding expenses (cut options for non partnered streams, not having a million stream in 4k to 2-3 viewers would save a ton) 2)Discovery, Twitch pushes big streams, more people will watch mid sized streams that aren't getting enough promotion 3)Advertise it better 4)Better revenue split 5)Shorter ad breaks. (you tune in to the wrong stream and get a 30s ad to start, and then a 3 min ad break and promptly nope out).
They're moving transcoding to client (streamer side). Also they only stream up to 1080p. They don't have anything 4K. The rest you're generally right about. They also need to get more ads cause right now you get the same ads again and again.
@@HH-le1vi I used 4k as an example for illustrating the crazyness, I meant to add "for NES games." A lot of people don't know OBS well enough to lower the settings to an appropriate level.
I remember I tried to watch a stream loaded it up had 2 minutes of straight ads backed out and came back to the stream like what I do with RU-vid sometimes and that 2 minutes jumped to 6 minutes I just uninstalled the app and never looked back
Have been looking for a comment to reply to about my ISSUE WITH RU-vid can we not have ad to start that says skip in 5 seconds then goes to another ad that says skip in 5 seconds just to lead us into an unskippable 45 second ad!!!
As a twitch streamer, am afraid to put TTV in my name, in games I play ppl with TTV tend to be the most toxic players, or get targeted the most by enemies if they are innocent, so yea I agree with this
As someone who is a full time streamer and Partner on Twitch, I would say the last year since Dan Clancy has been appointed CEO has been some of the best Twitch has had going for it in a long time. For him to be open and honest about Twitch not being profitable, and talking about a long term plan, opposed to short profit gains gives me a lot of hope. There have also been a lot of positive changes for revenue splits with streamers, giving more per sub and more ad revenue for the streamers
I think Twitch is like many other companies out there like Uber, Doordash, etc. These companies that have never been profitable and never will be because there's just no way to do it. A lot of streaming services are going the same way. These companies just care about "growth" and somehow think infinite growth is possible and that will get them profit "some day" but some concepts just can't turn a significant profit and the only thing keeping them afloat are larger companies or venture capitalists.
Yeah I noticed that too. As much as I like Company Man I’m starting to notice a trend of him either glossing over or outright avoiding certain topics etc.
"this is not a complete list of all of their issues" you ain't kidding. I remember when the Twitch Safety Advisory Council/FerociouslySteph drama went down. That was an... interesting time to be on the internet.
@@DoomRulz ferociouslysteph is a controversial member of twitch’s safety advisory council, having campaigned for the removal of voice chats and implementation of some severe and restrictive policies against people’s free speech. He also identifies as a deer…thing, I guess, and streamed him getting off to someone petting his head. A very bizarre person, indeed, and not the right call for such a large company’s safety advisory council.
A lot of Company Man’s videos are post Mortems but I appreciate the videos like this that provide a snapshot in time that can be visited at a later date.
the thing about kick's reputation in specific is that their more lax rule set has been attractive to all kinds of streamers who were banned from platforms like twitch. they'll stop offering the 95/5 split once they feel they can start skimming more from the audience and streamers after they build their foundation and audience base on that specific website. i don't hear much coming from kick outside of men supposedly hiring escorts on stream and kids irl streaming harassing people in public. it's no joke how hard Twitch has been pushing ad revenue for streamers also, they have a whole ad manager where if you schedule ads you get a whole 55% net ad revenue split which actually does help supplement streaming income but is incredibly intrusive for anyone watching. it's no wonder people get so frustrated when even adblockers don't work on the website, so refreshing the page makes you watch yet another Doritos Gamer Max commercial lol
@hackerling Speaking facts over here. The excessively obtrusive unskippable ads are why I deleted my account a few years ago and just wait for the stream VOD either on Twitch (if their channel is set up to save VODs) or if the streamer uploads their VODs to RU-vid either on their main channel or a stream archive side channel.
yup just like RU-vid who are starting to fallout of favor due to its many problems including the scam ads/ads themselves to the mass greed that is caused due to Indians being hired mainly which helped fuel the disinformation and the woke bs
I will pretty much always stay with RU-vid, it has been my trusted media app for my whole life, and I’ve been with it for at least 13 years, if not longer My account is only 9 years old though, but I used to watch without an account as I was a child then
Twitch streamers take heart: the 50-50 revenue split is exactly what players in the NBA and NHL receive. In they NFL players only get 48%. Gripe about the Twitch revenue split all you want, but literal pro athletes get the same deal. Kick's revenue split reflects one thing: its streamers are just paid advertising for online casinos.
to be fair, twitch would've died without amazon since most streaming services as a whole don't survive unless they are owned by a massive conglomerate with netflix being the only exception. while i agree amazon butchered twitch, most streaming services need the mega conglomerates to keep their lights on since streaming services as a whole don't exactly stay profitable on their own feet
Your channel has started to be something I check out regularly, just on the off chance I didn’t see a new upload. I watch older content, I rewatch with my husband. When my chronic pain is acting up, your content is still digestible and I look forward to being distracted by it. I know you have a ton of subs and views and comments, but I just wanted to put it out there in the universe! Keep up the great work!
What a gross generalization. You get from twitch whatever it is you're looking for. If you're only focused on the big streamers with 500,000 subscribers, you're gonna have a bad time.
There's also been allegations certain Twitch staff give special treatment/protection to streamers who edge the ToS line; notably streamers who happen to be showing a LOT of skin for what is supposed to be an ad-friendly platform. Meanwhile, smaller streamers get the might of God thrust upon them if they merely look at the ToS funny.
I used to stream on Twitch. To my surprise, it was not a “one stop shop” but rather a tool to promote yourself on social media like IG and TikTok. The brand and its direction should be clearly established already. It is extraordinarily hard to grow your platform with Twitch alone. The weirdest part for me was the “community” as streamers call it. Like the streamer is the center of a big friend group full of people with similar interests yet most hadn’t actually met or seen each other. While you meet some amazing people, others feel like they know you and demand more of your time and energy. Boundaries are crossed. It was too much pressure to maintain so many “friendships” and I personally don’t want or need hundreds of “friends” err uhm “community members”.
Because of how easily accessible online video is, I think people have gotten the idea that it’s just nothing, but it’s very expensive. Honestly I think it’s absurd that streamers think 50/50 is unfair to them when the price of streaming video is insane. Twitch was losing money and I expect both mixer and kick lost money and RU-vid live probably loses money on live currently. When RU-vid first became a thing the revenue split was 0/100 because hosting your videos for free was and still is insane. Not to mention it’s not like streamers have huge expenses they need to cover to stream.
The reason that Twitch had to shut down in South Korea is because they have a law regarding internet bandwith usage. The law says company need to pay more when using more data. Twitch already experimented with lower the resolution to 720p or raising the prices. It the end it just doesn't work. They will only be losing money if they keep it running.
RU-vid Live is killing it for sure. Why go to a separate website when most of the big live-streamers are also big on RU-vid; you can have their steams and videos in one place
I've been streaming since 2017 and I don't believe the medium as it is now is long for this world. Something like 95% of all Twitch streamers get less than 5 viewers, but all that bandwidth and storage still has to be paid for and ad rates are continuing to go down. There just isn't a viable business model in it, unless you're using your platform to do scummy stuff like promoting gambling to kids (i.e. Kick and it isn't designed to make a profit, only drive people to their crooked owners). Companies not being able to borrow endless amount of money for practically nothing is no longer possible and suddenly, these companies have to start finding a way to make a profit, despite years of not being able to do so before. I honestly think Amazon will just cut it loose one day and it can't survive on its own. I've never had goals of making a living from content and right now, I'm just waiting for the axe to fall.
to be fair, I'd argue a lot of Twitch streamers saw Emmett Shear leaving as a good thing at this point. The dude had already checked out mentally from Twitch for several years before he actually left. Dan Clancy becoming the new CEO, while viewed initially as an Amazon shill and a sign of bad things to come, was actually a step in the right direction. He has shown he cares much more about the platform than Emmett did in his last years, and has been very transparent with a lot of things.
Amazon's advertising network just isn't as robust as google's. It's so much easier to run advertising campaigns through adsense, and that translates into revenue for the company,
As someone who streams on twitch as his job and to support his family from my point of view things seem pretty okay. But I'm just one person. The fact that I get to stay home and own my own business and create a community while being home with my children is awesome. But it's a long road to get there and it's not for everybody
4:20 I am SHOCKED to this day whenever I hear about companies 'not forecasting' the drop in viewers after pandemic. Like I am FLOORED how randos on the internet, including me, could see that coming and a company filled with several teams and number crunchers, and statisticiens didn't think "these pandemic numbers are a HUGE outlier" It makes me think that was a scape goat. I honestly don't know if there even is long term money in streaming. Netflix did well when it was the only one... but now that there are tons of streaming's services they all pretty much fall in the same hole: not making money --> they increase the cost of the service --> people unsubscribe because of new prices--> loss of revenue = not making enough money --> increase cost of service. I honestly assumed streaming services had 40/60 split AT BEST. so i'm glad I was wrong, but it's clearly unsustainable, and they can't change that if they wanted to know that the other service has that lucrative 95/5 split... I genuinely wonder how on earth the company okay'd that decision.
Honestly its so hard to break out on twitch too. You have to basically stream everyday for hours a day.. and that can be tough. Also not being able to mult-stream without issues is another concern. Like it sucks, you can't stream to youtube/twitch unless you're affliated or pay for a pro obs thing.
There are a bunch of third party tools that will do this for you. Most of them are relatively cheap or offer free versions. Also, streaming every day for hours per day is a waste of your time. If you want to grow, you have to build a community elsewhere (some place with a suggestion algorithm) and then bring them to Twitch to monetize.
Yeah, because Twitch only pushes what's big and trendy and people who play those flavor of the week games. So if you play a game that's not Minecraft, Fortnite, GTA5, Valorant, Call Of Duty, Overwatch 2, or Rainbow Six Siege, you're relegated to the search bar and typing in the game or streamer name. Basically if your game isn't available on PC Twitch will disregard it on the homepage.
*Honestly its so hard to break out on twitch too.* When it comes to getting bigger on places like Twitch often times its not just about effort but about getting a break or simply luck of the draw. Who knows maybe one day you get a raid from a bigger streamer and some people like your stream and continue to watch and become regulars. Or maybe you have a random run in with a big streamer in a game and people discover your stream and some start watching you etc. I've watched one person who wasn't even streamer to begin with but they happened to run into a few famous streamers in game and had great interactions with them to the point that he got so popular that people donated money to buy him a brand new computer so that he could start streaming and he's been making a decent living from streaming to this day. I've also watched another person who never streamed previously but simply had run into a famous streamer in a game and had a fun filled few hours interaction with him and then people immediately suggested that he should start streaming and within a week or two he started up his stream and got a good number of people watching him and to this day he too is still streaming and making a decent living off it. The point is its often a crapshoot as to whether you make it as a streamer and often getting a few lucky breaks can make all the difference between streaming to a few viewers and doing it as a hobby and doing it fulltime and making good money from it.
The thing about RU-vid streaming is its chat setup is complete garbage compared to Twitch and its probably one big reason why RU-vid Gaming died so fast after it launched after many people predicted that it would become a major rival to Twitch. Not only is RU-vid chat too tame and PG, but it also lacks all the great emotes that are funny to use that makes chat so much more interesting and fun to read.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ I have no idea what you’re talking about, given that RU-vid chat allows custom emotes just like twitch and twitch has censorship in the chat like RU-vid. RU-vid is a lot more competitive on the streaming front than twitch is on the video front.
@@TheLastLineLive I've watched live RU-vid streams and they have very little custom emotes and a bunch of generic ones that are pretty standard for any forum that has emotes. Twitch has TENS OF THOUSANDS of custom emotes that keeps growing daily because every streamer who gains enough subs can start putting up their own custom emotes that their subscribers can use. Then you have 3rd party extensions that add hundreds more emotes and then on top of that anyone can create a custom emote and submit it to these people who run these extensions and they'll add it to their program. And while Twitch chat isn't a free for all where you can say whatever you like and not expect to get a timeout or ban, its definitely much more open to discussing controversial topics, allowing foul and sexual language and generally its more relaxed. The vast majority of chats in RU-vid livestreams are vanilla as hell because almost everyone wants to avoid their channels getting into any kind of trouble with RU-vid. With Twitch livestreams you're also allowed to have copyrighted music being played on your stream which will usually but not always be scrubbed if you watch the replay. On RU-vid every livestreamer mutes their streams anytime they come close to copyrighted music again just to avoid any trouble with RU-vid. About the only thing that RU-vid has that's far superior to Twitch is its player where you can go back and forth at any point of a livestream even as the streamer is still streaming live. So if you missed something that just happened a minute or two ago you can just instantly rewind back and watch it. That's one thing I love about the RU-vid player over Twitch's one.
You said it yourself. They’re owned by bigger companies . A lot of media is this way and they’re using their power over what people watch to sell stuff to the viewers basically so it is profitable
Horrible rules, uneven application of their rules, large variety in the application of punishments, moving away from gaming for other stuff like soft porn, their political pushing of their personal agenda, and so many scandals. There is just so much they fucked up over time.
Never thought I'd see you cover a Softcore Porn Site. In all seriousness, Twitch should just ban all the cam girls and quit trying to put bandaids on the problem
*Never thought I'd see you cover a Softcore Porn Site.* While it gets alot of coverage anyone who's ever watched Twitch for any amount of time would know that the softcore porn side of Twitch is a very small part of the site and that the vast majority of people who go there actually go and watch it for non-erotic reasons. There's two categories on Twitch where boobie streamers can hangout at and they both get a tiny number of viewers in comparison to all the people who watch non-boobie streams.
Agreed. I've been boycotting Twitch for years due to all the toxicity on the platform itself & yet a lot of the Streamers I've enjoyed have moved exclusively to Twitch because Twitch has a virtual monopoly on Livestreams & most of the streaming traffic comes from there. Barely anyone except for a few niche audiences seem to use RU-vid Gaming or Kick these days.
It's a shame because I use Twitch. I'm an artist, and I and lots of people show our art process with many people. In fact, some of the best art friends I have made were through the site. It's a small niche compared to the other stuff but still a good place to find fellow talent who support eachother.
They laid off 400 people, what the heck did they need that many for ? Smells of Twitter, where they could lay off 80% of staff and nothing would change
The quickest change I'd love to see is providing options for lower subs. Have a 'mini sub' option where you still see ads but get to use a streamer's emotes just just a dollar. A tiny little change that would expand how many streamers a single person is supporting. Or if that doesn't work a 2 week sub option for half the cost. Most people aren't going to upgrade their subs to the higher tiers but you can grab a lot more people's eyes with lower options.
I would love to see another video on EA! I think while it seems like an easy topic. There is a lot of things going on that’s really interesting that leaves a lot of questions for it’s future. Always a great watch though! Thank you
I think twitch has moved a bit in the right direction, allowing pausing of ads, a no-ad service monthly fee, slowing multi-site streaming. And it seems a lot of other streaming sites don’t necessarily get what in my opinion makes twitch desirable, interaction and tools for interaction, bits, plugins, emotes, channel points particularly that last adds a way for people to get something out of their time watching. I think there’s definitely an opportunity for a rival to make it, but they have to understand it’s less the actual streams, and more the strong community building tools, ease of access to search, etc . . The reason these backlashes by streamers were effective is because their communities are sort of well formed, you do see similar things with big RU-vid creators but not big RU-vid streamers as much. I’m not sure how you make twitch profitable. My gut would say somehow helping it be a game store, like perhaps negotiate the streamer and twitch getting a cut of game sales for the games they’re streaming if the person buys it through twitch/amazon. Or making a service to help small and moderate streams get sponsor female that are favourable for a cut of the money.
Would love to see a video about Performance Bicycle. They weee a nationwide company and I spent years visiting and purchasing from them. They were a chain and not your small mom and pop shop. They were very popular, but one day out of nowhere just up and closed every single store. Rumor has it the executives running the company mismanaged it, but would love to hear you tell the real story. Thanks for the consideration! 👍🏻
The sexual part of Twitch gets alot of coverage, but really in the grand scheme of things they make up a relative tiny part of Twitch streamers and the people who watch them.
you can subscribe to get rid of most of the ads but then you are locked in to only watching those you subscribe to. twitch prime used to be ad free viewing but they got rid of that a while ago.
I think eventually to keep the illusion of constant growth they are gonna keep the most popular people on top and just knee cap any would be future streamers not willing to shill out 50k for ads.
As a Twitch streamer, Twitch is far better when it comes to streaming as a whole. RU-vid is getting there but it feels like RU-vid is just one step behind of Twitch when it comes to streamer features, moderation against bots and spam, a very delayed chat, and not connecting with streamers or other community with emotes and a limited raid system. As for Kick, it’s basically a cesspool of toxicity that has no filters or moderation to do anything borderline illegal. With FB it’s basically nonexistent or revenant enough to speak on. I do have my gripes on Twitch when it comes to inconsistent ad and sub revenue system, age verifications (which is impossible with all these sites), hot tub streams nearing to an OF stream, and the constant near ToS breaking with streamers to profit and clout off of it. I see both YT and Twitch as the standards of streaming yet there’s a lot of things that need to fixed for the long term to make both streamers and companies happy.
When focusing on the topic of company and streamer relations. I've never seen so much inconsistency within rules and guidelines before. Not to mention the rumors of under the table favors to certain Streamers. In my opinion the worse thing they did was push IRL streaming. As much as I occasionally liked to watch it, it took away from the core of Twitch gaming. Nothing wrong with IRL every so often, but there are countless streamers who haven't touched a controller or keyboard since they started streaming.
They had a general streaming site already, but created Twitch to specifically cater to the gaming audience. Baited the gamers and now want to turn Twitch into a general site.
*In my opinion the worse thing they did was push IRL streaming. As much as I occasionally liked to watch it, it took away from the core of Twitch gaming.* I disagree. I think adding categories other than gaming greatly improved Twitch and made it even better. I watch alot of game streams, but its also nice to watch IRL streams at the same time and I think its great that I can find all this variety of streamers on one website rather than having to go to different places for it. Pretty much everyday I have a few game streams on and then a few IRL streams on as well so that I can watch someone play a game while checking on someone who's currently exploring Thailand or Paris or Singapore etc.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ I believe you misinterpreted my main point by missing one keyword. "Push." I didn't say they should have never added IRL. My point was they made it a focal point and promoted, and backed IRL based streamers a lot more than core gamers. At the end of the day, Twitch was supposed to be a gaming community. Like I said in the 2nd paragraph, it's cool to see the lives outside of games occasionally, but their are countless streamers who IRL stream and never even touched a controller before. Your point is based on liking IRL and the variety it gives. My point is to have IRL but promote and stick to what made twitch.. twitch.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ you gotta take into account my entire comment. The part you cropped out completely muddied up my objective. If you applied my entire paragraph to your view, you would have seen your main reason for disagreeing with me was in no way tied to my main point.
@@Dee-jd6ym *I didn't say they should have never added IRL. My point was they made it a focal point and promoted, and backed IRL based streamers a lot more than core gamers. At the end of the day, Twitch was supposed to be a gaming community.* I don't agree with this either. LOL. Twitch has always and will always be known as a live stream GAMING platform. The overwhelming majority of people who stream on Twitch are streaming games and gaming related things. The biggest live events that draw the most viewers are gaming and tech related events. Thousands of people tune in to watch competitive gaming events from weekly local fighting game tournaments to professional League of Legend tournaments that draw hundreds of thousands of viewers. The point is while IRL content has grown in the past few years significantly, gaming is still the primary reason most people tune into Twitch for because its the only place where you'll find people streaming anything from niche and retro games to the biggest most popular games and there's no other platform that has this variety of streamers as Twitch does. Just go and look at the Twitch directory and you'll see the Just Chatting category at the top that's for anyone streaming non-gaming content and then look at the hundreds of categories for all the different games that people stream that have anywhere from hundreds of thousands of viewers to maybe just a couple of viewers at the bottom. I don't know how you can look at that and say that Twitch isn't overwhelmingly game focused.
I used RU-vid a few years ago extensively to stream and it kept crashing when twitch would almost never crash. I think it had to do with the RU-vid protocols and the programming behind RU-vid streaming so even though that's an option unless they fixed it it's not a good option
I stream on Twitch actually and I would love it if we didn't have the forced pre-roll ads and also make it easier for discoverablity for small streamers like myself
Twitch just seems like to risky or a platform. I’ll stick to live streaming on RU-vid now and then and doing my videos here. I’m a small channel that just hit 1k but there’s way more stability here.
Hi Company Man, I think it’d be interesting if you analyze big Latin American companies like Mexican Claro or Bimbo, the Argentinian Mercado Libre, the Uruguayan PedidosYa. There’s many interesting stories abroad. Greetings 👋
Being part of the livestreaming ecosystem mostly on twitch, but on other platforms as well. Twitch has done well weathering storms of ups and downs, ultimately like most companies the main goal probably will never come back due to the original leaders leaving. If twitch did go bankrupt in the next 3-5 years it would be due to server/data costs which would speak to a whole bigger issue in the infrastructure service monopoly. Overall usability and retention keeps the site afloat, but whenever that change of services (ie: Korea and twitch not coming to a data cost beneficial to supporting the infastructure) happen that will not only be the downfall to twitch, but most other services that don't have an in with the leading provider.
Larger companies can acquire a smaller company like Kick to promote their main source of income, then allow them to operate at a loss so that they can write it off meanwhile making money on the other end with free promotion to the parent company. Kick doesn't end to be profitable to operate if this is what's going on.
I use to love twitch but the community got so bad over the years. Twitch just feels unprofessional for reasons everyone else commented already. Thst would make any other regular businesses look bad. I wish Mixer had stayed around. Mixer had so much potential, but Microsoft didn't want to stay with it and grow it for a few years. It was the first time I've ever had 30 active viewers that actively talked in chat at any given time Twitch discovery of other users is so bad that it isn't worth streaming for fun anymore. I didn't make any money but dang I just wanted to stream some video games
Twitch's mobile experience is really clunky...and stayed clunky...like Amazon/Twitch stopped paying attention to it. And they nerfed Twitch Prime. Then killed their dedicated desktop app. It just... Amazon kept killing the value proposition for Twitch...
I like watching on youtube streaming way more than twitch, because only some twitch streamers get live downscaling from their 1080p streams to 480, 360, etc for those who want to save bandwidth. Also I can rewind and the streams last for ever, etc.
since it was brushed over, they gave back larger creators 70/30 but made it (technically) easier to get for larger earners and easier overall and have removed the earning limit after the trial period ended also kick hosts people who are extremely problematic so most people refuse to just go on it
basically the better 70/30 split used to be exclusively for those who had the resources to negotiated a private contract, now the program is open to all once requirements are reached.
There's no discoverability on Twitch. It sucks to stream on it. Most vtubers I know that moved from Twitch to RU-vid do far better than they ever did on Twitch.
Would it be possible to do a video over Brookshire's Grocery Company? Its been my first job for over a year and a half, and I would love to see an overview of its history and financial ups & downs.
Man, my opinion of Twitch went from "Shit happens, it's a service, perfection takes time" to "What the fuck, everything about this site is sleazy as Hell." Not so much a rollercoaster as a swan dive into Dante's Inferno, one layer at a time.
These gambling companies are becoming a waaaay bigger problem than I see anyone talking about. You can't watch any sport for longer than a few minutes without an ad popping up or some dork from the network showing up to tell you which underdogs you should be betting on. It's disgraceful. And actively losing money on a streaming service that allows streamers to basically market gambling products to impressionable kids shows they know exactly what they're doing and want gambling to be even more engrained in our society than it is currently.
Twitch’s recommendation algorithm really turns me off from the platform. Presumably when it doesn’t have a large history of viewed content, it defaults to recommending its most-watched streams…but they’re usually nudity streams. That’s never why I’m there and it’s gross to see. I get that they want to diversify their content beyond gaming, but surely there’s something they can recommend that doesn’t involve nudity, gambling, or physically assaulting people on stream for views.
Whenever there are both RU-vid & Twitch streams for CS2 tournaments I'm always choosing RU-vid...ridiculous that Twitch doesn't let you pause and return to the point in time you paused it...RU-vid lets me skip through breaks in games and boring parts of the games
Though I still watch Twitch some I don't watch it nearly as much as I used to because so many streamers I used to follow have either cut back on Twitch streaming versus other platforms like RU-vid or have quit Twitch entirely. Besides all the issues covered in this video Twitch is also less friendly when it comes to VODs for viewers to catch up on streams they might have missed or even rewatch them later. Because of how YT works streams that are done on YT are automatically saved as VODs that can be rewatched. For this reason even some streamers who have remained on Twitch have started RU-vid channels for the sole purpose of archiving stream VODs.
