Twitch is reportedly offering big streamers a lot less money than before TwitchTwitch has lost two big streamers in the last month \u2014 TimTheTatman and Dr Lupo \u2014 and part of the reason might be because the platform\u2019s not offering as lucrative of deals as it once did. Tim and Lupo jumping ship from Twitch was some of the biggest news in streaming over the last month. According to a new report from the Washington Post, it could be because the streaming site isn\u2019t offering the types of deals it once did. According to the Post, Tim and Lupo leaving the site are because of \u201cintentional changes\u201d to how the company goes after exclusive contracts and deals with famous streamers. A number of former Twitch employees were quoted as saying that the site has \u201cstarted to offer big streamers less money for similar amounts of work\u201d and doesn\u2019t offer the same types of contracts that it used to in the past. Several employees also claimed this was the reason for Dr Lupo\u2019s departure, who got \u201clowballed\u201d by the site during his most recent contract negotiations. This underwhelming offer is apparently what made the move to YouTube even more appealing. This was in relation to Lupo\u2019s previous contract, which the streaming star inked back around the time that Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins and Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek left for exclusive deals with Mixer. According to the anonymous Twitch sources, losing those two prompted Twitch to offer lucrative contracts to their remaining stars at the time. Now that Mixer is dead and gone, and the purple giant continues to reign supreme in the world of streaming, it seems they don\u2019t feel the need to continue doing so. One unnamed former Twitch employee claimed \u201cThe public has a very uninformed perspective on Twitch\u2019s economics.\u201d \u201cAnytime [a streamer\u2019s] been paid a ton, it\u2019s been a lot more about brand than [the company\u2019s return on investment],\u201d the employee said. \u201cThe commerce business on big channels tends to flatline at some point, and streamers don\u2019t want to play ads \u2014 when that\u2019s Twitch\u2019s big upside potential.\u201d Furthermore, attorney Ryan Morrison, who runs the Evolved talent agency representing stars such as Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel, confirmed Twitch is offering fewer and fewer contracts, and the ones they do are worth less than those that came before. \u201cAnd outside of [North America], it\u2019s just about none at all \u2014 at least in my experience,\u201d Morrison told the Post. \u201cThat is not to say there are not some very lucrative and amazing deals coming down the pipes still, but it\u2019s not where it once was.\u201d Twitch obviously doesn\u2019t think losing a couple big name streamers every now and then to other sites is a big deal, and their total hours watched compared to YouTube and Facebook Gaming seem to back this up. Twitch streamers also have a variety of ways to make money outside of just contracts, too, so how this new approach by the site to lock content creators down will work out remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch is reportedly offering big streamers a lot less money than before TwitchTwitch has lost two big streamers in the last month \u2014 TimTheTatman and Dr Lupo \u2014 and part of the reason might be because the platform\u2019s not offering as lucrative of deals as it once did. Tim and Lupo jumping ship from Twitch […]<\/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-62328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328","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=62328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}