Twitch - The Rise and Fall?
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День томуThe future is uncertain for the biggest live-streaming platform. This video outlines what I believe to be the five most significant issues facing Twitch.
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Chuck E. Cheese's: • The Decline of Chuck E...
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@majoraxx2427 18 днів тому
Unskippable ads are one of the main problems for sure.
@macaylacayton2915 18 днів тому
I rather say the number of ads, even streamers complain about being required to have a certain number of ads per hour which is a problem youtube also has
@chiquita683 18 днів тому
Yup, people went to internet video to escape TV ads and were happy to accept lower quality production in exchange. The idea of getting TV ads now on this low quality product is a nonstarter
@honor9lite1337 18 днів тому
Ok
@floydian022 18 днів тому
UKposts: *rubs nipples*
@boilingwateronthestove 18 днів тому
Fair, but they lose money. They need a revenue stream somehow
@fennec2395 18 днів тому
You literally forgot about the most important things that are keeping Twitch alive: Twitch Prime & Soft Nudity
@tonic316 18 днів тому
please provide numbers and hard evidence of this, not just your manosphere of no grass touchers who live on twitch 24/7.
@T00muchF00Dchannel 18 днів тому
I thought he’d mention the nudity.
@1OO_k 18 днів тому
Yeah I noticed that too. As much as I like Company Man I’m starting to notice a trend of him either glossing over or outright avoiding certain topics etc.
@MotoManDan1 18 днів тому
@@1OO_k he glazed over that at the end
@chewycenter 18 днів тому
@@1OO_kOH no! Company Man: The rise and fall. And rise again?
@devingiles6597 18 днів тому
Hey, Company Man. You should definitely do a video on the decline of Hanna-Barbera. The animation studio was known for their popular cartoons such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Magilla Gorilla, Jonny Quest, etc. Also, they known for their wacky sound effects we heard throughout pop culture today. I want to know how did they started and what led to their downfall. It would be great if you could do a video on Hanna-Barbera. Pretty please?
@Anotherroom 18 днів тому
This would be a good one!
@TS_Mind_Swept 18 днів тому
I thought he had 🤔
@Dj.D25 17 днів тому
I am not that familiar with Hanna-Barbera's lesser known cartoons or much of their history, but it does surprise me how they managed to get so many cartoons made in such a short time during the 60s and 70s. Today only a handful of their cartoons seem to be remembered.
@b00biejingles 17 днів тому
@@TS_Mind_Swept Yeah I think he did like 4-5 years ago
@bubbles581 17 днів тому
That would be a good one
@danielw8776 18 днів тому
Twitch has given fame and tons of money to some of the most insufferable people I've seen so safe to say I'm not the biggest fan.
@sor3999 18 днів тому
They felt "disrespected" as if they had any. I guess when you have a live audience of 100 parasocial clinger ons you get a big head.
@TheJingles007 17 днів тому
It’s more of a symptom of our narcissistic and influencer culture we live in
@xxdesertstorm 17 днів тому
how much meth you smoke before saying that as you are clearly high
@braintrust12 15 днів тому
twitch didnt do that. the audience did. that's the truth: the vast majority of people in society are as dumb as a rock. it is what it is
@olandir 18 днів тому
I think Twitch is like many other companies out there like Uber, Doordash, etc. These companies that have never been profitable and never will be because there's just no way to do it. A lot of streaming services are going the same way. These companies just care about "growth" and somehow think infinite growth is possible and that will get them profit "some day" but some concepts just can't turn a significant profit and the only thing keeping them afloat are larger companies or venture capitalists.
@CottonEyedBro 18 днів тому
Amazon owns Twitch and they don’t put up with unprofitable entities very long
@orenbernstein3277 18 днів тому
@@CottonEyedBro That’s very false. Amazon itself was unprofitable for decades
@randomnobody8770 18 днів тому
@@orenbernstein3277 Amazon was unprofitable for 9 years after it was founded.
@Nemeroth77 18 днів тому
@@orenbernstein3277 Amazon is one of the few tech companies that IS profitable.
@lostinYourReality 18 днів тому
Actually Uber is becoming profitable now. Their last few quarters they made money and having free cash flows
@terryrds 18 днів тому
"this is not a complete list of all of their issues" you ain't kidding. I remember when the Twitch Safety Advisory Council/FerociouslySteph drama went down. That was an... interesting time to be on the internet.
@mrofinUtortxoF 18 днів тому
I consider myself as a helicopter
@DoomRulz 17 днів тому
What's that about?
@ItsTrinton 18 днів тому
Twitch's real biggest issue: 1)Transcoding expenses (cut options for non partnered streams, not having a million stream in 4k to 2-3 viewers would save a ton) 2)Discovery, Twitch pushes big streams, more people will watch mid sized streams that aren't getting enough promotion 3)Advertise it better 4)Better revenue split 5)Shorter ad breaks. (you tune in to the wrong stream and get a 30s ad to start, and then a 3 min ad break and promptly nope out).
@ItsTrinton 18 днів тому
Also twitch needs to add additional revenue streams like PPV live performances and major sponsored content like tv quality game shows.
@HH-le1vi 17 днів тому
They're moving transcoding to client (streamer side). Also they only stream up to 1080p. They don't have anything 4K. The rest you're generally right about. They also need to get more ads cause right now you get the same ads again and again.
@ItsTrinton 17 днів тому
@@HH-le1vi I used 4k as an example for illustrating the crazyness, I meant to add "for NES games." A lot of people don't know OBS well enough to lower the settings to an appropriate level.
@sullyproductions5757 17 днів тому
I remember I tried to watch a stream loaded it up had 2 minutes of straight ads backed out and came back to the stream like what I do with UKposts sometimes and that 2 minutes jumped to 6 minutes I just uninstalled the app and never looked back
@ericsooy5430 10 днів тому
Have been looking for a comment to reply to about my ISSUE WITH UKposts can we not have ad to start that says skip in 5 seconds then goes to another ad that says skip in 5 seconds just to lead us into an unskippable 45 second ad!!!
@thegray5730 18 днів тому
KICK is in no danger of becoming mainstream.
@pandawok301 18 днів тому
You could thank the salt of the Earth Johnny Somali for that.
@chokobo0047 18 днів тому
I've never even heard of kick until this video.
@CanMav 17 днів тому
@@pandawok301 Among others...
@darkclownKellen 17 днів тому
Who?
@mittensfastpaw 17 днів тому
@@pandawok301I haven't kept tabs and now want to know more...
@SonicmanChannel 18 днів тому
Ah yes, a new company man, sucha great day!
@icecreamjunkie6790 18 днів тому
Every Wednesday!
@cgasucks 18 днів тому
Who needs an MBA when you can watch this channel for free?
@gazb2740 18 днів тому
Twitch is a glorified camgirl site these days.
@BrotherMag 18 днів тому
Pretty much
@djpuplex 18 днів тому
Don't forget the politics.
@That_Lady_Charlie 18 днів тому
What a gross generalization. You get from twitch whatever it is you're looking for. If you're only focused on the big streamers with 500,000 subscribers, you're gonna have a bad time.
@googscookies6891 18 днів тому
@doodchappin 18 днів тому
Always has been
@ProfaneVestige 18 днів тому
I'm surprised you didn't mention more of the over sexualization on the website and the laundry list of articles concerning that. It's a far larger problem than you think
@adamstrachn 18 днів тому
Twitch wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have a bunch of cam girls going after children.
@companyman114 18 днів тому
That's probably true. I gave that a brief mention at the very end of the video. The main reason I left it off is because I didn't have too much to say about it.
@Lobonova 18 днів тому
Also gay and trans men showing stuff to children.
@richbaboon9345 17 днів тому
@@Lobonovawho? How dare they? I need to know who!
@DOCDOCFLAMINGOS 17 днів тому
@@LobonovaOhhhhh there you go.... As if those are the only types/ group of people that are showing stuff to kids?!?!
@hackerling 18 днів тому
the thing about kick's reputation in specific is that their more lax rule set has been attractive to all kinds of streamers who were banned from platforms like twitch. they'll stop offering the 95/5 split once they feel they can start skimming more from the audience and streamers after they build their foundation and audience base on that specific website. i don't hear much coming from kick outside of men supposedly hiring escorts on stream and kids irl streaming harassing people in public. it's no joke how hard Twitch has been pushing ad revenue for streamers also, they have a whole ad manager where if you schedule ads you get a whole 55% net ad revenue split which actually does help supplement streaming income but is incredibly intrusive for anyone watching. it's no wonder people get so frustrated when even adblockers don't work on the website, so refreshing the page makes you watch yet another Doritos Gamer Max commercial lol
@stitchfinger7678 18 днів тому
Im sorry you want everything for free
@coffee_2234 18 днів тому
Hi hacker
@MrEnzio777 16 днів тому
@hackerling Speaking facts over here. The excessively obtrusive unskippable ads are why I deleted my account a few years ago and just wait for the stream VOD either on Twitch (if their channel is set up to save VODs) or if the streamer uploads their VODs to UKposts either on their main channel or a stream archive side channel.
@lordmarshmal_0643 8 днів тому
@@stitchfinger7678 I'm sorry you pay for UKposts Premium
@scottnotpilgrim 18 днів тому
As someone who has been on Twitch for almost 9 years, they seems to get in their own way.. a lot
@frwystr 18 днів тому
9 years? sad
@bfife22 18 днів тому
The amount of times they update the console or mobile app and just make it worse while not fixing the existing issues is insane
@coffee_2234 18 днів тому
Twitch biggest mistake is selling themselves to amazon which they don't care about twitch anyway
@SimuLord 18 днів тому
Mistake for the company, but the founders laughed all the way to the bank.
@ricahrdb 18 днів тому
They would have shut down some time ago if they hadn't sold to Amazon
@blessd69 18 днів тому
I've been watching Twitch since 2012 and there have been problems at this time too and people were dissatisfied
@thegameplayer125 18 днів тому
to be fair, twitch would've died without amazon since most streaming services as a whole don't survive unless they are owned by a massive conglomerate with netflix being the only exception. while i agree amazon butchered twitch, most streaming services need the mega conglomerates to keep their lights on since streaming services as a whole don't exactly stay profitable on their own feet
@PXAbstraction 18 днів тому
They were burning money and nearly bankrupt when they sold to Amazon. They didn't do it because they wanted to.
@uss_04 18 днів тому
A lot of Company Man’s videos are post Mortems but I appreciate the videos like this that provide a snapshot in time that can be visited at a later date.
@immortal5383 18 днів тому
In b4 every twitch streamer reacts to this
@MADmosche 17 днів тому
So what is the point of this comment?? L
@orangecatactually 18 днів тому
I know you touched on it, but Twitch's relationship with its streamers is definitely one of the bigger issues. People getting banned really quickly, or the 'sexism' that seems to be taking place(I don't really think it's that, but a lot of people think twitch favors women a lot over men), like Jidion and Ishowspeed getting banned from Twitch permanently for doing things that can be interpreted as misogynistic, while some female twitch streamers have gotten very light punishments for doing questionable things on camera(like [accidental, or purposeful] exposure, and in a extreme case, having sex on stream). Also twitch's policy change earlier this year regarding nudity, and their switch back, may've been a prudent point.
@d0hzer453 18 днів тому
That 95/5 ain't gonna last very long.
@johnnycage112 18 днів тому
Twitch did all this to itself.
@xxdesertstorm 17 днів тому
yup just like UKposts who are starting to fallout of favor due to its many problems including the scam ads/ads themselves to the mass greed that is caused due to Indians being hired mainly which helped fuel the disinformation and the woke bs
@bingofromblueyfan 18 днів тому
Can you please do a video about the decline of Red Lobster as they’re planning on filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and a video about spin master toys being bigger than you know
@lungcancer69 18 днів тому
Two good suggestions!
@bingofromblueyfan 18 днів тому
@@lungcancer69 yeah I thought it would be I just can’t believe Red Lobster was struggling that bad my local red lobster restaurant burned down and they haven’t opened it back up now I know why
@ElleBrOw 18 днів тому
@@bingofromblueyfanI noticed their usual annual LobsterFest ran past the month of February this year. Guess they’re doing the most to keep customers
@jergervasi3331 18 днів тому
@@bingofromblueyfan I just read your comment and pictured a vengeful lobster with a matchbook in one claw... Thanks!
@bingofromblueyfan 18 днів тому
@@jergervasi3331 no problem
@tehjamerz 18 днів тому
Justin tv was the best version, raw
@underwaterhairdryer 18 днів тому
Love all your videos!
@krandomk 17 днів тому
Amazon's advertising network just isn't as robust as google's. It's so much easier to run advertising campaigns through adsense, and that translates into revenue for the company,
@blackbox7707 18 днів тому
9:50 Kick has the second highest revenue split. Rumble is currently the highest at 100% of subs go towards the streamer. Rumble has had this policy for almost 2 years now.
@sor3999 17 днів тому
And that is again, just repeating history. Once these sites get big enough and need to make money it'll go right back to where it is.
@b64771 16 днів тому
I used to stream on Twitch. To my surprise, it was not a “one stop shop” but rather a tool to promote yourself on social media like IG and TikTok. The brand and its direction should be clearly established already. It is extraordinarily hard to grow your platform with Twitch alone. The weirdest part for me was the “community” as streamers call it. Like the streamer is the center of a big friend group full of people with similar interests yet most hadn’t actually met or seen each other. While you meet some amazing people, others feel like they know you and demand more of your time and energy. Boundaries are crossed. It was too much pressure to maintain so many “friendships” and I personally don’t want or need hundreds of “friends” err uhm “community members”.
@codyjoe2442 18 днів тому
Love your videos Man
@NickyJamesTV 18 днів тому
As someone who streams on twitch as his job and to support his family from my point of view things seem pretty okay. But I'm just one person. The fact that I get to stay home and own my own business and create a community while being home with my children is awesome. But it's a long road to get there and it's not for everybody
@LordBitememan 17 днів тому
Twitch streamers take heart: the 50-50 revenue split is exactly what players in the NBA and NHL receive. In they NFL players only get 48%. Gripe about the Twitch revenue split all you want, but literal pro athletes get the same deal. Kick's revenue split reflects one thing: its streamers are just paid advertising for online casinos.
@jacoboq8452 17 днів тому
keep up the consistent uploads!
@soliddj9708 18 днів тому
New Company Man video. Immediate like.
@mr_q_02 17 днів тому
Interesting that you released this today, because one of Twitch's smaller competitors also announced today that they'd be shutting down at the end of the month. The inherent problem with the model is that they let anyone stream as much as they want. Which leads to a huge majority of the platform being streams with 0 viewers. I think the only possible way to make livestreaming economically viable is to limit the number of hours people can stream per month. Very low for people with low average viewership, and higher as their viewership increases.
@gameskyjumper1721 18 днів тому
The reason that Twitch had to shut down in South Korea is because they have a law regarding internet bandwith usage. The law says company need to pay more when using more data. Twitch already experimented with lower the resolution to 720p or raising the prices. It the end it just doesn't work. They will only be losing money if they keep it running.
@sor3999 17 днів тому
Any company in America pays more when they generate more internet traffic. This sounds dubious to be only in Korea.
@lharwest1571 17 днів тому
@@sor3999 Maybe they want to encourage local companies more and want to keep big outside companies out.
@OXR1200 17 днів тому
I believe that the law applied to streaming platforms not based in Korea. It's an effort to boost traffic and revenue to local services
@kezcade 17 днів тому
to be fair, I'd argue a lot of Twitch streamers saw Emmett Shear leaving as a good thing at this point. The dude had already checked out mentally from Twitch for several years before he actually left. Dan Clancy becoming the new CEO, while viewed initially as an Amazon shill and a sign of bad things to come, was actually a step in the right direction. He has shown he cares much more about the platform than Emmett did in his last years, and has been very transparent with a lot of things.
@MADmosche 17 днів тому
Twitch is a cesspool of stupidity and thots
@dib327 3 дні тому
Average misogynist.
@PXAbstraction 18 днів тому
I've been streaming since 2017 and I don't believe the medium as it is now is long for this world. Something like 95% of all Twitch streamers get less than 5 viewers, but all that bandwidth and storage still has to be paid for and ad rates are continuing to go down. There just isn't a viable business model in it, unless you're using your platform to do scummy stuff like promoting gambling to kids (i.e. Kick and it isn't designed to make a profit, only drive people to their crooked owners). Companies not being able to borrow endless amount of money for practically nothing is no longer possible and suddenly, these companies have to start finding a way to make a profit, despite years of not being able to do so before. I honestly think Amazon will just cut it loose one day and it can't survive on its own. I've never had goals of making a living from content and right now, I'm just waiting for the axe to fall.
@AmaraJordanMusic 17 днів тому
Your channel has started to be something I check out regularly, just on the off chance I didn’t see a new upload. I watch older content, I rewatch with my husband. When my chronic pain is acting up, your content is still digestible and I look forward to being distracted by it. I know you have a ton of subs and views and comments, but I just wanted to put it out there in the universe! Keep up the great work!
@Zandorf68 13 днів тому
I would love to see another video on EA! I think while it seems like an easy topic. There is a lot of things going on that’s really interesting that leaves a lot of questions for it’s future. Always a great watch though! Thank you
@the0ne809 18 днів тому
tons of tech companies are not and will ever be profitable. nothing new.
@jeast417 18 днів тому
Correct, UKposts isn't profitable. They are subsidized by alphabet
@mikezheng33 17 днів тому
Because of how easily accessible online video is, I think people have gotten the idea that it’s just nothing, but it’s very expensive. Honestly I think it’s absurd that streamers think 50/50 is unfair to them when the price of streaming video is insane. Twitch was losing money and I expect both mixer and kick lost money and UKposts live probably loses money on live currently. When UKposts first became a thing the revenue split was 0/100 because hosting your videos for free was and still is insane. Not to mention it’s not like streamers have huge expenses they need to cover to stream.
@d4nt3_023 18 днів тому
Never would’ve known this otherwise. Thanks for the video!
@greninjaarc-z396 18 днів тому
Twitch has gotten real disgusting these days
@chiquita683 18 днів тому
Blame furries
@alyxgraff9121 18 днів тому
Agreed. I've been boycotting Twitch for years due to all the toxicity on the platform itself & yet a lot of the Streamers I've enjoyed have moved exclusively to Twitch because Twitch has a virtual monopoly on Livestreams & most of the streaming traffic comes from there. Barely anyone except for a few niche audiences seem to use UKposts Gaming or Kick these days.
@Sypitz 18 днів тому
@@chiquita683it’s totally the fault of furries and not women doing hot tub streams and showcasing degeneracy
@SomeRamdomAhole 18 днів тому
@@chiquita683 No blame amazon.
@melchior2678 18 днів тому
@@SomeRamdomAhole you misspelled $¢amazon
@toadboy4 7 днів тому
I will pretty much always stay with UKposts, it has been my trusted media app for my whole life, and I’ve been with it for at least 13 years, if not longer My account is only 9 years old though, but I used to watch without an account as I was a child then
@mattomalley7968 18 днів тому
Keep on keepin on
@SlicxNix 18 днів тому
Perfect timing
@Nerdieo 18 днів тому
"Simply put..." Immediately shows Simply for 2 seconds LOL I see you editor LOL
@AnalyticalMenace 18 днів тому
Reading through the comments here leads me to think perhaps certain people are consuming the wrong type of content. If we stop giving the despicable creators an audience, eventually they'll fade into oblivion.
@giannibasile2200 18 днів тому
Company man video never misses
@oOoDRAGOONoOo 18 днів тому
I like that "Simply put" part, I see u ;D
@meratcompany5279 17 днів тому
this video needs to have a second part about sexual content in Twitch
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
The sexual part of Twitch gets alot of coverage, but really in the grand scheme of things they make up a relative tiny part of Twitch streamers and the people who watch them.
@kelsmister 18 днів тому
Honestly its so hard to break out on twitch too. You have to basically stream everyday for hours a day.. and that can be tough. Also not being able to mult-stream without issues is another concern. Like it sucks, you can't stream to youtube/twitch unless you're affliated or pay for a pro obs thing.
@mr_q_02 17 днів тому
There are a bunch of third party tools that will do this for you. Most of them are relatively cheap or offer free versions. Also, streaming every day for hours per day is a waste of your time. If you want to grow, you have to build a community elsewhere (some place with a suggestion algorithm) and then bring them to Twitch to monetize.
@MrEnzio777 16 днів тому
Yeah, because Twitch only pushes what's big and trendy and people who play those flavor of the week games. So if you play a game that's not Minecraft, Fortnite, GTA5, Valorant, Call Of Duty, Overwatch 2, or Rainbow Six Siege, you're relegated to the search bar and typing in the game or streamer name. Basically if your game isn't available on PC Twitch will disregard it on the homepage.
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
*Honestly its so hard to break out on twitch too.* When it comes to getting bigger on places like Twitch often times its not just about effort but about getting a break or simply luck of the draw. Who knows maybe one day you get a raid from a bigger streamer and some people like your stream and continue to watch and become regulars. Or maybe you have a random run in with a big streamer in a game and people discover your stream and some start watching you etc. I've watched one person who wasn't even streamer to begin with but they happened to run into a few famous streamers in game and had great interactions with them to the point that he got so popular that people donated money to buy him a brand new computer so that he could start streaming and he's been making a decent living from streaming to this day. I've also watched another person who never streamed previously but simply had run into a famous streamer in a game and had a fun filled few hours interaction with him and then people immediately suggested that he should start streaming and within a week or two he started up his stream and got a good number of people watching him and to this day he too is still streaming and making a decent living off it. The point is its often a crapshoot as to whether you make it as a streamer and often getting a few lucky breaks can make all the difference between streaming to a few viewers and doing it as a hobby and doing it fulltime and making good money from it.
@yungmugel 18 днів тому
Oh this one is gonna be a banger
@mjc0961 18 днів тому
Twitch sucks as a viewer. Loads of ads and then you finally get into a stream and it's more about the streamer reading donation messages and replying to chat than it is playing the game. And then Twitch made chats scummy with "hype trains" or whatever where they try to encourage more donations. It just feels gross to watch Twitch.
@sor3999 17 днів тому
Blame the audience for that. These parasocially obsessed love that senpai notices them by reading off the donation message and chatting with them. These kids need real friends.
@DAT1METALROCKER 18 днів тому
Once again requesting you make a video about Fazoli’s restaurants!!!!!!!
@Surreal469 18 днів тому
The censorship is why I'll never go back.
@chim-choo-ree 18 днів тому
Justintv was great for watching wrestling PPVs. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.
@Fgma744 18 днів тому
Twitch sucks. UKposts better.
@maxonmendel5757 18 днів тому
yes
@chiquita683 18 днів тому
UKposts on same path
@DeTAYL. 18 днів тому
This is the way
@StormyDomain 18 днів тому
True
@sor3999 17 днів тому
@@chiquita683 lol no
@pmode 17 днів тому
You should do Starter next. Used to be a pretty big clothing brand.
@matthewjean3020 18 днів тому
COMPANY MAN!!!! 😁
@davidscott1340 17 днів тому
This is the only channel I upvote before the video statys cause I have mever heard a bad one from this channel and never wwnt to forget the upvote.
@konthewondercow811 18 днів тому
The quickest change I'd love to see is providing options for lower subs. Have a 'mini sub' option where you still see ads but get to use a streamer's emotes just just a dollar. A tiny little change that would expand how many streamers a single person is supporting. Or if that doesn't work a 2 week sub option for half the cost. Most people aren't going to upgrade their subs to the higher tiers but you can grab a lot more people's eyes with lower options.
@Dee-jd6ym 18 днів тому
When focusing on the topic of company and streamer relations. I've never seen so much inconsistency within rules and guidelines before. Not to mention the rumors of under the table favors to certain Streamers. In my opinion the worse thing they did was push IRL streaming. As much as I occasionally liked to watch it, it took away from the core of Twitch gaming. Nothing wrong with IRL every so often, but there are countless streamers who haven't touched a controller or keyboard since they started streaming.
@sor3999 17 днів тому
They had a general streaming site already, but created Twitch to specifically cater to the gaming audience. Baited the gamers and now want to turn Twitch into a general site.
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
*In my opinion the worse thing they did was push IRL streaming. As much as I occasionally liked to watch it, it took away from the core of Twitch gaming.* I disagree. I think adding categories other than gaming greatly improved Twitch and made it even better. I watch alot of game streams, but its also nice to watch IRL streams at the same time and I think its great that I can find all this variety of streamers on one website rather than having to go to different places for it. Pretty much everyday I have a few game streams on and then a few IRL streams on as well so that I can watch someone play a game while checking on someone who's currently exploring Thailand or Paris or Singapore etc.
@Dee-jd6ym 7 днів тому
@@UzumakiNaruto_ I believe you misinterpreted my main point by missing one keyword. "Push." I didn't say they should have never added IRL. My point was they made it a focal point and promoted, and backed IRL based streamers a lot more than core gamers. At the end of the day, Twitch was supposed to be a gaming community. Like I said in the 2nd paragraph, it's cool to see the lives outside of games occasionally, but their are countless streamers who IRL stream and never even touched a controller before. Your point is based on liking IRL and the variety it gives. My point is to have IRL but promote and stick to what made twitch.. twitch.
@Dee-jd6ym 7 днів тому
@@UzumakiNaruto_ you gotta take into account my entire comment. The part you cropped out completely muddied up my objective. If you applied my entire paragraph to your view, you would have seen your main reason for disagreeing with me was in no way tied to my main point.
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
@@Dee-jd6ym *I didn't say they should have never added IRL. My point was they made it a focal point and promoted, and backed IRL based streamers a lot more than core gamers. At the end of the day, Twitch was supposed to be a gaming community.* I don't agree with this either. LOL. Twitch has always and will always be known as a live stream GAMING platform. The overwhelming majority of people who stream on Twitch are streaming games and gaming related things. The biggest live events that draw the most viewers are gaming and tech related events. Thousands of people tune in to watch competitive gaming events from weekly local fighting game tournaments to professional League of Legend tournaments that draw hundreds of thousands of viewers. The point is while IRL content has grown in the past few years significantly, gaming is still the primary reason most people tune into Twitch for because its the only place where you'll find people streaming anything from niche and retro games to the biggest most popular games and there's no other platform that has this variety of streamers as Twitch does. Just go and look at the Twitch directory and you'll see the Just Chatting category at the top that's for anyone streaming non-gaming content and then look at the hundreds of categories for all the different games that people stream that have anywhere from hundreds of thousands of viewers to maybe just a couple of viewers at the bottom. I don't know how you can look at that and say that Twitch isn't overwhelmingly game focused.
@allanvanuga9196 18 днів тому
Great video.
@henrygreen2096 18 днів тому
4:20 I am SHOCKED to this day whenever I hear about companies 'not forecasting' the drop in viewers after pandemic. Like I am FLOORED how randos on the internet, including me, could see that coming and a company filled with several teams and number crunchers, and statisticiens didn't think "these pandemic numbers are a HUGE outlier" It makes me think that was a scape goat. I honestly don't know if there even is long term money in streaming. Netflix did well when it was the only one... but now that there are tons of streaming's services they all pretty much fall in the same hole: not making money --> they increase the cost of the service --> people unsubscribe because of new prices--> loss of revenue = not making enough money --> increase cost of service. I honestly assumed streaming services had 40/60 split AT BEST. so i'm glad I was wrong, but it's clearly unsustainable, and they can't change that if they wanted to know that the other service has that lucrative 95/5 split... I genuinely wonder how on earth the company okay'd that decision.
@ktktktktktktkt 18 днів тому
I feel like you should have elaborated on why twitch faced prohibitively expensive costs to operate in Korea. Basically Korea has a tax on high bandwidth services which hits streaming sites like twitch particularly hard. Honestly sounds like a net neutrality issue and would not be legal in the west. Pretty sure Korea's the only country with this type of issue.
@pogbootactual 17 днів тому
I appreciate how to the point your videos always are. Too many channels doing 45 minute videos with 30 minutes of useless back story before getting to the point.
@deeko_z86 18 днів тому
Remember when Twitch had that one partner party that was serving poorly handled alcohol?
@Lobonova 18 днів тому
No, explain please.
@Cringe_department_15 18 днів тому
@@Lobonovajustminx
@MatthewMS. 17 днів тому
I’ve been a fan of this channel for years, just wanted to say it’s excellent and thank you to the creator, great job 👏🏻 🇺🇸. “Thank you for watching 😒” ; )
@DanOCan 17 днів тому
I cannot fathom ever logging in to a site to watch someone else play a video game.
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
There are a number of reasons to watch people play video games. If you like esports and want to see the most skilled players competing against each other then that's a big reason to watch. Or else if you're maybe interested in buying a game but want to see if you might like it or not, then why not tune into a streamer who's playing that game so that you can get a live preview of it?
@DilbertChan 17 днів тому
There's also been allegations certain Twitch staff give special treatment/protection to streamers who edge the ToS line; notably streamers who happen to be showing a LOT of skin for what is supposed to be an ad-friendly platform. Meanwhile, smaller streamers get the might of God thrust upon them if they merely look at the ToS funny.
@depro9 18 днів тому
So many DJs streaming! ✌️
@roasato 17 днів тому
As a Twitch streamer, Twitch is far better when it comes to streaming as a whole. UKposts is getting there but it feels like UKposts is just one step behind of Twitch when it comes to streamer features, moderation against bots and spam, a very delayed chat, and not connecting with streamers or other community with emotes and a limited raid system. As for Kick, it’s basically a cesspool of toxicity that has no filters or moderation to do anything borderline illegal. With FB it’s basically nonexistent or revenant enough to speak on. I do have my gripes on Twitch when it comes to inconsistent ad and sub revenue system, age verifications (which is impossible with all these sites), hot tub streams nearing to an OF stream, and the constant near ToS breaking with streamers to profit and clout off of it. I see both YT and Twitch as the standards of streaming yet there’s a lot of things that need to fixed for the long term to make both streamers and companies happy.
@TVandManga 17 днів тому
Interesting video!
@bornashamloo 18 днів тому
Never thought I'd see you cover a Softcore Porn Site. In all seriousness, Twitch should just ban all the cam girls and quit trying to put bandaids on the problem
@BusyBusyPanda 18 днів тому
Kimmikka had sex live on camera & it took Twitch days to address it. So you aren't wrong they've dabbled in porn.
@PatriotinArms 18 днів тому
They have FAR more problems then just the soft core porn part. However, that is a symptom of a bigger disease facing Twitch.
@dr.brainwreck3996 17 днів тому
I think they it bandaids on the nipples over there
@little_box3s41 17 днів тому
To be fair, they did a few weeks ago.
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
*Never thought I'd see you cover a Softcore Porn Site.* While it gets alot of coverage anyone who's ever watched Twitch for any amount of time would know that the softcore porn side of Twitch is a very small part of the site and that the vast majority of people who go there actually go and watch it for non-erotic reasons. There's two categories on Twitch where boobie streamers can hangout at and they both get a tiny number of viewers in comparison to all the people who watch non-boobie streams.
@BackPalSA 18 днів тому
Oh damn, when Company Man is making a video on a current company that's suffering, you know it's not good for them.
@uss_04 18 днів тому
It’s kind of nuts how companies and investors that experienced a massive growth during the initial days of the pandemic that that trend would keep going up half a decade later
@timewave02012 17 днів тому
When considering big companies that buy small companies and/or support unprofitable ventures for years, think of all the people saying Sears should have gotten into online shopping, Kodak into digital cameras, Blockbuster into delivery, etc. These big industry leaders have to find some balance between focusing on their core business that's been profitable so far, and speculating on the next big thing.
@michaelquintero2315 16 днів тому
You said it yourself. They’re owned by bigger companies . A lot of media is this way and they’re using their power over what people watch to sell stuff to the viewers basically so it is profitable
@incorrectdigit 18 днів тому
I think twitch has moved a bit in the right direction, allowing pausing of ads, a no-ad service monthly fee, slowing multi-site streaming. And it seems a lot of other streaming sites don’t necessarily get what in my opinion makes twitch desirable, interaction and tools for interaction, bits, plugins, emotes, channel points particularly that last adds a way for people to get something out of their time watching. I think there’s definitely an opportunity for a rival to make it, but they have to understand it’s less the actual streams, and more the strong community building tools, ease of access to search, etc . . The reason these backlashes by streamers were effective is because their communities are sort of well formed, you do see similar things with big UKposts creators but not big UKposts streamers as much. I’m not sure how you make twitch profitable. My gut would say somehow helping it be a game store, like perhaps negotiate the streamer and twitch getting a cut of game sales for the games they’re streaming if the person buys it through twitch/amazon. Or making a service to help small and moderate streams get sponsor female that are favourable for a cut of the money.
@Lecksite 18 днів тому
I used UKposts a few years ago extensively to stream and it kept crashing when twitch would almost never crash. I think it had to do with the UKposts protocols and the programming behind UKposts streaming so even though that's an option unless they fixed it it's not a good option
@NoobsDeSroobs 18 днів тому
Horrible rules, uneven application of their rules, large variety in the application of punishments, moving away from gaming for other stuff like soft porn, their political pushing of their personal agenda, and so many scandals. There is just so much they fucked up over time.
@tonyvalenti6614 13 днів тому
Would love to see a video about Performance Bicycle. They weee a nationwide company and I spent years visiting and purchasing from them. They were a chain and not your small mom and pop shop. They were very popular, but one day out of nowhere just up and closed every single store. Rumor has it the executives running the company mismanaged it, but would love to hear you tell the real story. Thanks for the consideration! 👍🏻
@icecool8661 18 днів тому
Ads killed my Twitch watching. Not sure why they need so many ads since Amazon owns them.
@boomerbear7596 18 днів тому
Though I still watch Twitch some I don't watch it nearly as much as I used to because so many streamers I used to follow have either cut back on Twitch streaming versus other platforms like UKposts or have quit Twitch entirely. Besides all the issues covered in this video Twitch is also less friendly when it comes to VODs for viewers to catch up on streams they might have missed or even rewatch them later. Because of how YT works streams that are done on YT are automatically saved as VODs that can be rewatched. For this reason even some streamers who have remained on Twitch have started UKposts channels for the sole purpose of archiving stream VODs.
@Jared_Wignall 18 днів тому
I’ve never been much into Twitch, but from everything I’ve heard about it from those who’ve used it quite a bit, it’s gone down hill very fast and it’s quite sad to hear how things have turned out for what was once a site to livestream, primarily livestream playing video games and engaging with people who would comment during the stream. Thanks for talking about this man, I hope you’re doing well. Keep up the great work and have a great day!
@allisonma42 11 днів тому
The rise and fall of Express might be a good one. Thanks for your amazing content!
@theunbearables 18 днів тому
I like watching on youtube streaming way more than twitch, because only some twitch streamers get live downscaling from their 1080p streams to 480, 360, etc for those who want to save bandwidth. Also I can rewind and the streams last for ever, etc.
@jumbobrian 17 днів тому
Twitch still provides the better experience for streamers and chat, it's absurd that UKposts can't toss together a decent interface for livestreaming To give you an idea, there's a gaming organization I know that streams their games on Twitch, and after one of these controversies they decided they'd had enough and were leaving Twitch for UKposts... they took the time to get everything switched over, and broadcast there for a month before heading back to Twitch The discoverability and usability were still just so much better on Twitch compared to the competition
@darthsilversith667 18 днів тому
And hopefully.. there is no rise on the back end!
@healingjourneysdiarys 12 днів тому
Hi Company Man, I think it’d be interesting if you analyze big Latin American companies like Mexican Claro or Bimbo, the Argentinian Mercado Libre, the Uruguayan PedidosYa. There’s many interesting stories abroad. Greetings 👋
@uss_04 18 днів тому
I got into twitch late, but only watched friends who I knew. Never got into specific large streamers. I play some smaller population games and asked to join their streams at times.
@deebee5378 18 днів тому
I do an interactive stream in a game engine complete reliant on channel point redeems. There isn’t that kind of functionality or plugins for UKposts streaming, so my stream just wouldn’t work on other platforms. It’s a little scary knowing it could fall apart along with Twitch. Hopefully other platforms add something like that
@bagthecadran 18 днів тому
From my view youtube is definitely catching up but as a viewer if I want to watch a livestream I’ll open up twitch before youtube. Kick definitely has an audience but I’m nowhere near it with the streamers I watch having strong oppositions towards it, mostly in regard to its lax moderation. I also see a lot of streamers stream on both youtube and twitch at the same time. A lot just choose one but because they’re so close in popularity and people have their preferences, a lot just go with both.
@Midori_Hoshi 17 днів тому
For me, it's been hard or sometimes seemingly impossible to block ads on Twitch, forcing me to close it and give up. I have no tolerance for ads.
@AdmiralWillisLee1942 15 днів тому
Would it be possible to do a video over Brookshire's Grocery Company? Its been my first job for over a year and a half, and I would love to see an overview of its history and financial ups & downs.
@edwardcruz6233 18 днів тому
One of my favorite streamers goes live on Twitch, UKposts, and Facebook. Twitch is the only one that makes me watch ads.
@evoTimer 18 днів тому
Sammit streams IRL car drifting in Japan with multi cam live view that the subscriber can switch between cameras by typing !cam 1, !cam2, !multi 3, for example. He usually multi cam Twitch streams while he is at Ebisu
@owenvazquez1991 18 днів тому
Oh! Have you tackled companies such as Screwattack and Rooster Teeth? Pretty sure they have some fairly interesting history.
@Downphoenix 17 днів тому
I have always liked UKposts’s streaming setup over Twitch as well as the creators and audience they both have.
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
The thing about UKposts streaming is its chat setup is complete garbage compared to Twitch and its probably one big reason why UKposts Gaming died so fast after it launched after many people predicted that it would become a major rival to Twitch. Not only is UKposts chat too tame and PG, but it also lacks all the great emotes that are funny to use that makes chat so much more interesting and fun to read.
@Downphoenix 7 днів тому
@@UzumakiNaruto_ I have no idea what you’re talking about, given that UKposts chat allows custom emotes just like twitch and twitch has censorship in the chat like UKposts. UKposts is a lot more competitive on the streaming front than twitch is on the video front.
@UzumakiNaruto_ 7 днів тому
@@Downphoenix I've watched live UKposts streams and they have very little custom emotes and a bunch of generic ones that are pretty standard for any forum that has emotes. Twitch has TENS OF THOUSANDS of custom emotes that keeps growing daily because every streamer who gains enough subs can start putting up their own custom emotes that their subscribers can use. Then you have 3rd party extensions that add hundreds more emotes and then on top of that anyone can create a custom emote and submit it to these people who run these extensions and they'll add it to their program. And while Twitch chat isn't a free for all where you can say whatever you like and not expect to get a timeout or ban, its definitely much more open to discussing controversial topics, allowing foul and sexual language and generally its more relaxed. The vast majority of chats in UKposts livestreams are vanilla as hell because almost everyone wants to avoid their channels getting into any kind of trouble with UKposts. With Twitch livestreams you're also allowed to have copyrighted music being played on your stream which will usually but not always be scrubbed if you watch the replay. On UKposts every livestreamer mutes their streams anytime they come close to copyrighted music again just to avoid any trouble with UKposts. About the only thing that UKposts has that's far superior to Twitch is its player where you can go back and forth at any point of a livestream even as the streamer is still streaming live. So if you missed something that just happened a minute or two ago you can just instantly rewind back and watch it. That's one thing I love about the UKposts player over Twitch's one.
@COMPFUNK2 17 днів тому
Oh, is that what Twitch is? I always saw the app but I never downloaded it because I just wasn’t interested.
@Izomak12 17 днів тому
I'm absolutely astounded that twitch is not profitable with the 50/50 split they make
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