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Rarely use twitch these days but I was under the impression it was doing well, did YouTube picked up pace or maybe poor financial management. https://www.wsj.com/tech/twitch-amazon-video-games-investment-9020db87
@djlink Twitch was never a money maker. Amazon just hasn't been able to find a formula that works to reverse that. I think the main problem is that it is highly popularity based and you really can't expect to make much money off of a couple dozen content creators. It really needs to find a way to grow the smaller creators' audiences. But all the big decisions have been geared toward propping up the larger ones.
@djlink a big tech company losing money? Good.
@djlink Twitch is still the biggest. Kick is too shady (crypto and gambling adjacent) and YouTube attracts a different audience. Twitch is just expensive to run, a lot of tiny streams which don't bring in much revenue, and few huge streams which do bring in a lot of revenue. Just classic "this is difficult to run in a way that makes money unless I start implementing really nasty policies".
gamedev @djlink Is doing well, but ads are really annoying (like, multiple one and half minute long ads with quite high frenquency) and it many times don't offer different quality options for audience.
However, I noticed many streamers starting to either co-stream or fully migrate for Youtube, not sure why, but it's happening for some months.
@djlink seems like a platform that is very expensive to run and caters mostly to young people.