xQc says Kick is targetting Twitch streamers the \u201cright way\u201d after Hikaru\u2019s non-exclusive deal Twitch: xQcTwitch star Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel believes Kick is going the \u201cright way\u201d about targeting Twitch streamers following the non-exclusive deal they\u2019ve signed with Chess grandmaster Hikaru. As challengers have risen up to take a swing at knocking Twitch off the top of the streaming mountain, they\u2019ve picked up a number of big streamers along the way \u2013 with the likes of Valkyrae, Ludwig, and Courage making YouTube their permanent home. The Amazon-owned platform is now facing a new threat from Kick, the Stake-backed platform that has sprung up in the wake of Twitch\u2019s crackdown on gambling. Kick has already managed to sign Adin Ross away from Twitch, and while there have been rumors of signing more stars, they\u2019ve given Chess maestro Hikaru Nakamura a non-exclusive deal that allows him to stream on both platforms. xQc explains why Kick is going the \u201cright away\u201d about signing Twitch streamers That, according to xQc, is the way that Kick should be going about trying to target new signees, rather than getting them to sign exclusive deals like Twitch, Mixer, YouTube, and other platforms have dished out. \u201cPeople think that it\u2019s bad that these guys are signing dual contracts. Guys, I said this years ago that this is the right way to do it,\u201d the Canadian said during his March 29 stream. \u201cI said this even when Mixer was a thing. One, it\u2019s cheaper, and two, it creates an actual transfer. It creates an actual transfer that is gradual.\u201d That gradual transfer xQc is talking about, likely refers to viewers. It\u2019s something others have referenced, noting that having a presence on both, allows them to slowly build up their standing on the newer platform. Of course, it\u2019ll be a struggle to hit the same view counts from Twitch on Kick initially, but over time, streamers could start reaching their usual figures. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see if their prediction ends up being correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc says Kick is targetting Twitch streamers the \u201cright way\u201d after Hikaru\u2019s non-exclusive deal Twitch: xQcTwitch star Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel believes Kick is going the \u201cright way\u201d about targeting Twitch streamers following the non-exclusive deal they\u2019ve signed with Chess grandmaster Hikaru. As challengers have risen up to take a swing at knocking Twitch off the […]<\/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-65482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65482","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=65482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}