Kick forced to make service upgrades after shock xQc signing KickKick has been forced to make upgrades to its services after the streaming platform went down following the signing of Twitch star xQc. Since its launch in late 2022, Kick has rivaled some of the biggest streaming platforms, even going toe-to-toe with the industry titan in Amazon-owned Twitch. Offering lucrative deals, Kick has been able to lure several prominent figures from other platforms so far, including the likes of Adin Ross, who signed \u201cthe biggest streaming deal ever\u201d with the Stake-backed streaming service. Others include the likes of BruceDropEmOff, who joined Kick after receiving several bans from Twitch, and now one of the Amazon-owned platform\u2019s biggest stars, xQc, has signed a $70 million deal in a non-exclusive two-year partnership. However, the signing of their newest star brought more traffic to the site than anticipated, forcing the platform into upgrading its services as they continue to grow at an exponential rate. Kick upgrades services after unexpected downtime In a tweet late on June 16, just a few hours after news broke of the signing of xQc, the platform informed users it was facing stability issues \u2014 due to experiencing up to 50 times more traffic than usual. \u201cKick is experiencing stability issues due to immense traffic (50x our usual). We are overwhelmed by your support and will get this fixed quickly,\u201d they wrote. In a second tweet, the platform explained it\u2019d be using the unexpected downtime to upgrade its services in order to handle the exponential growth expected in the coming weeks. \u201cWe\u2019re currently using this slightly unexpected downtime to upgrade some necessary services. This will ensure Kick will be ready to handle exponential growth over these coming weeks. We appreciate your patience.\u201d With one of Twitch\u2019s biggest streamers now broadcasting on its number one competitor, it\u2019s fair to say many are pessimistic for the Amazon-owned platform\u2019s future, with other top streamers going as far as to claim Twitch is \u201cdone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kick forced to make service upgrades after shock xQc signing KickKick has been forced to make upgrades to its services after the streaming platform went down following the signing of Twitch star xQc. Since its launch in late 2022, Kick has rivaled some of the biggest streaming platforms, even going toe-to-toe with the industry titan […]<\/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-52791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52791","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=52791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}