Ninja explains why he moved from Twitch to Mixer to help other streamers Streaming star Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins dove deeper into his reasoning behind moving from Twitch to Mixer \u2013 claiming that while it was never his plan to leave, doing so was to the benefit of everyone. Ninja sent shockwaves across the streaming world when he announced that he was finished with Twitch and would be heading to Mixer back on August 1. There has been plenty of speculation behind his reasoning for the move, but regardless, it opened up the door for everyone else to depart their home platforms for new pastures. Michael \u2018Shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has ultimately joined him on Mixer, but Ninja finally opened up on starting the Twitch exodus and helping to build up the growing platform during his appearance on The True Geordie podcast. Ninja noted that prior to his move, Mixer had 5% of the total hours watched when it came to streams, meaning that he hypothetically should have had around 2,500 viewers \u2013 but he\u2019s brought over a lot more folks. \u201cLet\u2019s just look at the numbers bro, at the end of my Twitch life I was averaging like 20 to 30k viewers every single day and to literally be able to average 10,000 viewers on Mixer, it\u2019s astounding,\u201d Blevins said. \u201cIt\u2019s actually incredible, I mean, I still get people who are like \u2018only 8,000, only 9,000(viewers)\u2019 and I\u2019m like \u2018homie, do you know how great that is on this platform right now?\u2019 and it\u2019s still growing,\u201d Ninja continued. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting man and we\u2019re really working on a lot of cool stuff to take advantage of the situation Mixer is in right now.\u201d The streaming superstar revealed that he wasn\u2019t actively looking to leave Twitch prior to his departure and was deep in negotiations as he wanted to \u201cmake it work,\u201d but a breakdown allowed Mixer to swoop in and clean up on the deal. While Mixer has been seen as the smaller platform, with a major drop off in numbers compared to its rival, Ninja was more aware of what the move was \u201cgoing to do for a lot of other streamers and gamers.\u201d He stated: \u201cObviously the deal was great and I do love the platform, it\u2019s incredible, but I knew \u2013 my wife and I \u2013 we went into this like we\u2019re doing this for everyone else \u2013 and looked what happened man. We got people being re-signed to Twitch, people moving to YouTube, and now more people being signed and making deals, and that\u2019s how it should be.\u201d With the precedent of moving being set by Ninja, and streamers constantly heading away from Twitch, it remains to be seen as to who the next big name departure will be. Shroud, who followed in Ninja\u2019s footsteps, claimed that Jack \u2018Courage\u2019 Dunlop\u2019s move to YouTube was the sign of things \u201cjust getting started\u201d in a wider industry shake-up, so there seems to be some big moves in the pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja explains why he moved from Twitch to Mixer to help other streamers Streaming star Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins dove deeper into his reasoning behind moving from Twitch to Mixer \u2013 claiming that while it was never his plan to leave, doing so was to the benefit of everyone. Ninja sent shockwaves across the streaming world […]<\/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-56569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56569","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=56569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}