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is there a good historical example of this strategy working? I know platforms have tried paying for apps to be ported or etc and it never seems to drum up organ

• kevingadd 2y ago
  Kick has successfully lured some big Twitch streamers away with incentives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_(service)#Streaming_deals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_(service)#Streaming_deals And they seem to be trying to lure more people away by offering more favorable revenue splits than YT/Twitch. Of course this is all funded by online casino revenue, I don't know if it would "work" without being able to light money on fire. There are credible people out there insisting that Kick is losing money and only exists to funnel new customers to Stake's online gambling services.
  • jorams 2y ago
    > There are credible people out there insisting that Kick is losing money and only exists to funnel new customers to Stake's online gambling services. This is trivial to determine without even needing to defer to credible people: Its entire business model outside of funneling people into gambling addiction is taking a 5% split of subscription revenue. This while it is paying Amazon for the actual (expensive) streaming tech[1], in a market that's notoriously hard to be profitable in for companies taking both a larger cut and running ads. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/ https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/
• criddell 2y ago
  Didn’t Substack pay some big names early on to use the platform?
• fullshark 2y ago
  Spotify's podcasts and Joe Rogan? SiriusXM and Howard Stern? Those were superstars with undue influence though.