Ludwig threatens to leave YouTube for Twitch if changes aren\u2019t made Mogul Mail\/YouTubeAfter streaming with YouTube Gaming for over two years, Ludwig Ahgren has reflected on his experience with them and threatens to go back to Twitch unless changes are made. It\u2019s been two years since Ludwig Ahgren shocked his viewers as he revealed he was leaving his Twitch to continue his livestreaming career on YouTube after getting an exclusive two-year deal with YouTube Gaming. The deal came to an end in November 2023, and fans have been wondering what\u2019s next for the popular streamer. In a video published on December 4, Ludwig said he\u2019d enjoyed working with YouTube Gaming. \u201cI felt more appreciated by YouTube than I did by Twitch,\u201d he said in a video. \u201cThey made me feel like a person. They made me feel seen. It felt like our goals were aligned. In Twitch, I felt like another cog in the machine. And it didn\u2019t hurt that YouTube was also offering me more money.\u201d Ludwig explains that in the process of moving over to YouTube, he realized that his goal from livestreaming isn\u2019t to make the most money; it\u2019s to get the most viewership, he said, which he gets from his YouTube streams. However, despite this, Ludwig focused the video on the possibility of him leaving YouTube and going back to Twitch. Ludwig threatens to leave YouTube to go back to Twitch Despite this, Ludwig revealed he\u2019s not completely satisfied with YouTube, and is considering moving back to Twitch. \u201cI have to admit there are some problems, and those problems, in the two years that I\u2019ve been here, haven\u2019t been addressed at the speed that I or other livestreamers would like,\u201d he explained in his video. The main reasons he wants to leave, he said, are the time caps YouTube imposes on live streams and VODs. He explained that, at the moment, streams cannot run longer than 12 hours, and VODs over six hours can\u2019t be edited. That means if something gets copyright struck in the middle of a video, they can\u2019t edit the VOD to take that part out; they just have to delete the VOD altogether. \u201cMy concern is that YouTube doesn\u2019t care about livestreaming,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey care about something else that you\u2019ll probably see on the home screen if you open up YouTube right now: YouTube Shorts.\u201d Ludwig argues YouTube is focusing on TikTok as its biggest threat Ludwig went on to argue that TikTok is on its way to kill YouTube, which is why the platform is focusing on its Shorts features. Ludwig explained: \u201cWhat isn\u2019t a concern of theirs is the title \u2018Twitch has killed YouTube,\u2019 because that\u2019ll never happen. I don\u2019t think Twitch is entering the VOD space. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re trying to compete there. I think they\u2019re just chilling in the livestream space [\u2026] and so they have almost like this handshake agreement, where Twitch is the massive shareholder. They have the majority viewership for all livestreaming. \u201cAnd YouTube has been floating around, just doing their thing. They haven\u2019t gone up too much, they haven\u2019t gone down too much. Facebook\u2019s on the down and down, Kick\u2019s nowhere to be seen. And there\u2019s no real need to rush into being a better product than Twitch. Or to beating Twitch. Because Twitch will never kill YouTube. TikTok will. That\u2019s how it feels.\u201d Some other things he wanted YouTube Gaming to change were: adding an offline chat, the ability to preview thumbnails, and the ability to reply to comments in the hat. He continued to say that he plans to give YouTube one more year. If he\u2019s not happy with how YouTube is supporting its streamers at that point, he\u2019ll look at going back to do streams on Twitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ludwig threatens to leave YouTube for Twitch if changes aren\u2019t made Mogul Mail\/YouTubeAfter streaming with YouTube Gaming for over two years, Ludwig Ahgren has reflected on his experience with them and threatens to go back to Twitch unless changes are made. It\u2019s been two years since Ludwig Ahgren shocked his viewers as he revealed he […]<\/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-54679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54679","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=54679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}