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> I assume Twitch doesn't make much from people watching old streams. Something like 0.5% of all viewtime goes to them, according to Twitch. > Do they put adv

> I assume Twitch doesn't make much from people watching old streams. Something like 0.5% of all viewtime goes to them, according to Twitch. > Do they put adverts on them? They have ads on VODs (records of recent streams from the last 30-60 days), so I guess they have them also on the Highlights. And it seems Twitch is grabbing all the income from those ads, streamers get nothing. Speaks loud if they still think it's monetary beneficial to save the costs for storage. > I guess Twitch isn't in that market. Twitch is mainly live-content, a big part of the experience is to see content in a timely context and have chat-interaction. Some people are also watching VODs when they had no time to watch it live, but IIRC that only 50-10% of the viewer, and rarely consistent. Highlights are a bit of an outside on that site, because they are not well advertised, you can't easily find a specific video by content and the viewing-experience on YouTube is simply superior. You basically have to know about them and specifically search for them.

moogly 2y ago
> Something like 0.5% of all viewtime goes to them, according to Twitch. That's a lot of minutes. > To date, Twitch content has been viewed for 21 BILLION hours[1] [1] https://twitchtracker.com/statistics https://twitchtracker.com/statistics
- slightwinder 2y ago
  Indeed, on an individual level this seems like much, but on the global level it's still not much. At worst, you will lose a low number of users. But I have to correct myself, highlights make up <0.1% of viewing time, but this change will impact 0.5% of streamers.
fennecbutt 2y ago
>streamers get nothing Lmao, they get a centralised platform to hock their performances from. They don't have to worry about hiring people to build them said platform, manage infra, bandwidth, uptime/sla etc.

moogly 2y ago

> Something like 0.5% of all viewtime goes to them, according to Twitch. That's a lot of minutes. > To date, Twitch content has been viewed for 21 BILLION hours[1] [1] https://twitchtracker.com/statistics https://twitchtracker.com/statistics

slightwinder 2y ago
Indeed, on an individual level this seems like much, but on the global level it's still not much. At worst, you will lose a low number of users. But I have to correct myself, highlights make up <0.1% of viewing time, but this change will impact 0.5% of streamers.

fennecbutt 2y ago

>streamers get nothing Lmao, they get a centralised platform to hock their performances from. They don't have to worry about hiring people to build them said platform, manage infra, bandwidth, uptime/sla etc.