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by spyke112 1185 days ago
Make it a monthly payment like Netflix? Streaming is streaming if you ask me.
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You can subscribe to individual creators on twitch. This removes advertising from that streamers stream only.
Really should be a monthly subscription, that will get shared by all creators based on minutes of view time, or some other metric. Then maybe gate it behind some artificial limit, so that only serious creators will get a cut. I mean Spotify can share profits between every single artist, why cant twitch do the same? It would benefit both the consumer, higher likelihood of subscribing, and also the creators. They could also keep running ads on a free tier. It’s not exactly rocket science.
They already have this, although it only pays the streamer for ads the viewer would have seen rather than split across view time.

https://www.twitch.tv/turbo