Twitch exec hits back at YouTube for copied streaming features after Hype Chat addition Unsplash\/YouTube\/TwitchTwitch\u2019s chief monetization officer Mike Minton poked fun at YouTube \u2018copying\u2019 some key live stream features after Twitch introduced their new Hype Chat feature. Over the last few years, there have been a few competitors to Twitch\u2019s spot as the top livestreaming website out there. The likes of Mixer and Facebook Gaming have faltered but both YouTube and Kick are still making a good go of things. Both websites have their similarities to Twitch \u2013 Kick especially, as it has a pretty much spot-on replica of Twitch\u2019s layout, directory, and other features \u2013 but YouTube still feels like standard YouTube. YouTube does, of course, also have features that are inspired by Twitch, especially as they\u2019ve signed ex-Twitch creators over the last few years that have urged to go that way. But, it sometimes works the other way too. Twitch exec responds to ex-YouTube exec over Hype Chat addition So, when Twitch unveiled their new Hype Chat feature \u2013 which allows users to donate and get added attention on their chat messages \u2013 it instantly drew comparisons with YouTube\u2019s Super Chat feature. In fact, former head of Gaming at YouTube Ryan \u2018Fwiz\u2019 Wyatt made a point of it. \u201cI\u2019ve seen this product somewhere before\u2026,\u201d Fwiz said, with a laughing emoji attached. However, Twitch\u2019s chief monetization officer Mike Minton quickly fired back. \u201cFunny, I had the same reaction to gift subs, clips, raids, sub-only chat, polls on YT Live\u2026,\u201d he tweeted in response. Fwiz noted the exchange was \u201call in good fun,\u201d but there are still plenty of users who can\u2019t help but dish out the copying accusation. Though, there are many annoyed that Twitch hasn\u2019t followed YouTube in allowing streamers to take 100% of the money from Hype Chat. Instead, Twitch will give streamers 50% of what is donated, and it\u2019s only increased frustration following the recent controversies in regard to branded content changes and the catch on allowing streamers to have 70\/30 splits on sub revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch exec hits back at YouTube for copied streaming features after Hype Chat addition Unsplash\/YouTube\/TwitchTwitch\u2019s chief monetization officer Mike Minton poked fun at YouTube \u2018copying\u2019 some key live stream features after Twitch introduced their new Hype Chat feature. Over the last few years, there have been a few competitors to Twitch\u2019s spot as the top […]<\/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-62299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62299","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=62299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}