news culture This former Twitch star-turned-Kick faces a big problem. All is not going as planned for this streamer…
Streamers around the world have started to take an interest in Kick, a new platform designed to compete with Twitch. Videographer xQc has already taken the plunge, only not everything goes as planned.
Do you know Kick? This is a brand new streaming platform that aims to compete with Twitch. In contrast to the latter, it wants to make the remuneration of the videographers significantly more generous and also significantly cheaper. The inventor xQc, with twelve million subscribers, is one of the many people who have dared to test this new service. He even signed a contract with it. But he’s already in trouble. While Kick advocates near-total freedom of expression and distribution, xQc has been caught for copyright infringement. During a stream, and despite believing he was protected from the DMCAs, he got the idea to broadcast the Batman The Dark Knight movie to his community.
Only after long minutes without problems, he received a message from the platform: Hello, we inform you that you are streaming copyrighted content.
We ask you to end your life. Also, you need to remove the VOD from your channel .
The videographer immediately paused his stream, but since a large portion of the film had already aired, he managed to make some money. The streaming expert Devin Nash It is estimated that xQc earns almost $10,000 an hour thanks to Kick’s system.
What did Kick promise?
While Twitch continues to tighten its rules on compensation and business partners, Kick is pursuing the opposite strategy. In terms of remuneration, this new platform should be generous. A simple example: 1 sub costs 4 dollars on Twitch. The streamer receives half of these 4 dollars.At Kick, a sub costs 5 dollars and the videographer recovers 95%. In addition, the company has already announced plans to pay all streamers up to $16 per hour. In terms of content, the service wants to be able to show everything and is committed to freedom of expression and the freedom to stream sensitive or DMCA content. Because of this, Kick has already earned a reputation for bringing together all troubled people on Twitch.
