xQc turned down offers to leave Twitch despite huge deals before $100m Kick signing Instagram: xqcow1In an exclusive interview with xQc\u2019s agency, they reveal that the streaming giant received multiple competing offers before inking his $100 million Kick deal, but turned it down because he wasn\u2019t ready for a \u201cretirement move\u201d. With a price tag of $100 million, Felix \u201cxQc\u201d Lengyel\u2019s Kick deal rocked the entertainment world. Not only because of its massive price tag but also because of how high profile such a signing was for the burgeoning streaming site. When xQc inked his Kick deal, the Stake-backed site was barely half a year into its launch, and xQc was undoubtedly their biggest signing to date. Despite just being a non-exclusive streaming contract, The Juicer was brought on to put Kick on the map, and that he has done. This was in total contrast to previous blockbuster streamer deals. When names such as Ninja and Shroud moved for the now-defunct Mixer, it was an exclusive move to the platform, meaning the two made a complete shift towards the platform. xQc received multiple competing offers before signing his blockbuster Kick deal However, according to S\u00e9bastien Delvaux, the COO of Evolved, the talent agency representing xQc, he was never ready for a \u201cretirement move\u201d like that, despite receiving competing offers. \u201cOver the years, there have been competing offers from other platforms, and very often during this initial review process that we have with Felix, the conversation comes around, \u2018well, we\u2019re not ready for a retirement move, right?\u2019\u201d Which was why, Delvaux explained, xQc never entertained many other offers. Deals only focused on monetary value just weren\u2019t on the table for the megastar. Rather xQc wanted a deal to grow his channel. \u201cThat\u2019s why he wasn\u2019t a part of the wave that moved to Mixer back in the day,\u201d Delvaux said. \u201cBecause he was in a big growth period, and it\u2019s not a paycheck that was exciting him, it was the ability to grow.\u201d So this is a place where he has potentially the ability to grow further and to do more than what he can do on Twitch.\u201d As for who the rivaling platforms are that offered him deals, Delvaux wouldn\u2019t say. \u201cProbably won\u2019t tell you exactly,\u201d he told us. \u201cBut I can tell you it was a good handful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc turned down offers to leave Twitch despite huge deals before $100m Kick signing Instagram: xqcow1In an exclusive interview with xQc\u2019s agency, they reveal that the streaming giant received multiple competing offers before inking his $100 million Kick deal, but turned it down because he wasn\u2019t ready for a \u201cretirement move\u201d. With a price tag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}