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I'm not really into that whole scene, but my third-hand understanding is that the Amazon Prime integration is a form of this. Basically, while Microsoft offere

I'm not really into that whole scene, but my third-hand understanding is that the Amazon Prime integration is a form of this. Basically, while Microsoft offered millions to people like Ninja, Amazon offers somewhere around three dollars each month to each Prime member, with the restriction that they must give it to a mid-sized or bigger streamer that they enjoy. This makes it worth the time for growing streamers, and lets big-but-not-Ninja-big folks make a job out of it. It's actually a pretty interesting economic / business model case study: they're basically crowdsourcing which streamers they subsidize while simultaneously offering a cross-promotional perk to an existing customer base.

r00fus 6y ago
Do you have a source on this? I didn't know about Prime scrip.
- amalcon 6y ago
  Just conversations, but a quick googling points to twitch.amazon.com. That appears to offer Amazon Prime members "free channel subscription ($4.99 value) every month".
- mey 6y ago
  See https://twitch.amazon.com/tp https://twitch.amazon.com/tp (click on the Prime Status on Twitch section)
errantmind 6y ago
As far as I know you can subscribe with Prime to any sized streamer. I've subscribed to accounts with only 5 other subs
- sincerely 6y ago
  Don't you need 100 consistent viewers for a month or something like that to unlock the ability to be subbed to? I would count that as mid-sized
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