Ludwig slams potential Twitch sub paycut hurting small streamers YouTube: LudwigStreaming giant Ludwig \u2018Ludwig\u2019 Ahgren hit out at Twitch over the reported changes they\u2019re making to revenue split over subscriptions, calling it \u201ccrazy\u201d while also pointing out how much some streamers are set to lose. As Twitch has gotten bigger over the last few years, it has become a legitimate way for content creators to make a living \u2013 and then some. Most streamers, who have a partner contract with Twitch, have a 50\/50 split on subscriptions. So, a $5 sub earns them $2.50. Some streamers have more lucrative deals with a higher split too. Over the last few years, Twitch has invoked the wrath of streamers, however, with the introduction of more ads and localized pricing on subscriptions \u2013 with streamers losing out even more on their sub split. The Amazon-owned platform is reportedly eyeing further changes too, doing away with the higher split and introducing even more ads. And, according to Ludwig, they could go even further. The former Twitch star, who jumped to YouTube back in November, discussed the changes in his April 28 video, showing just how much the reported changes will impact smaller streamers. \u201cThey\u2019re considering taking people who are currently making 70% for every sub and just slicing it down to 50%, which is kind of crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s a 20% pay cut for thousands of streamers. That\u2019s a lot of people who are going to be losing a lot of money.\u201d Ludwig noted that the changes won\u2019t affect some of the top streamers, like xQc and Mizkif, given they already make obscene amounts. Though, he added that smaller streamers will get \u201cslammed\u201d by using the example of Smash Ultimate commentator CONEY, who has around 2,000 subs and could go from making around $84,000 a year to $60,000 by just losing $1 a month per sub. The YouTuber streamer also suggested that Twitch could, before long, do away with Twitch Prime if they\u2019re looking for other avenues to increase profitability and stop \u201chemorrhaging\u201d money. \u201cMaybe there\u2019s a day where they lose Twitch Prime,\u201d he added. \u201cThey know internally that doing that is fire bells ringing, this is OK with the dog sitting around fire meme. It wouldn\u2019t go over well.\u201d While Ludwig noted that Twitch retains a few advantages over YouTube, it\u2019s clearly not all rosy on the side of the Amazon-owned platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ludwig slams potential Twitch sub paycut hurting small streamers YouTube: LudwigStreaming giant Ludwig \u2018Ludwig\u2019 Ahgren hit out at Twitch over the reported changes they\u2019re making to revenue split over subscriptions, calling it \u201ccrazy\u201d while also pointing out how much some streamers are set to lose. As Twitch has gotten bigger over the last few years, […]<\/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-54667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54667","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=54667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}