[londons_explore]

> they take a large cut from subscribers

I'm surprised they don't have a 'choose your own revshare' setting, allowing the creator choose how much to pay twitch.

Obviously twitch will recommend more profitable creators, so you get a kind of 'race to the top', with creators offering twitch a larger and larger revshare, knowing that unless they do, their audience size will dwindle.

It also encourages creators to come in from other platforms - if you already have an audience and just want to extract money from them, then you don't need to be in twitches recommendations and can choose a low revshare to milk the subscribers.

[joebob42]

I think subscribers are sticky enough that this would pretty quickly drive revshare down.

Especially when I imagine a sizable portion of revenue comes from the very biggest streamers, who may not need discovery from twitch at all and would then default to the lowest value. Like, this model has sort of flipped setup from what I'd think you want; the more successful you are the lower twitches cut.

I suppose they could just make the minimum value 50% (iiuc this is the current value). But I'm still not sure how much it would help.