>>14533819I agree with the overall point of your previous post, I'm just nitpicking the idea that extensions shouldn't be considered when choosing a streaming platform for your audience. If we're talking about Twitch as a company, I don't have a lot of nice things to say.
To piggyback of your second paragraph, that's the discoverability problem exactly. YouTube discoverability seems worse at first because not many new subs are going to come in through a livestream VOD. But if you edit those into more digestible clips and supercuts you'll draw people to the channel and some of them will even come to watch your livestreams to get the full fat experience. Twitch's clips should fill this gap but the platform barely promotes them.
>>14533497Sort of. The affiliate program is a sandtrap that's offered to streamers with as few as 3 viewers. The minimum payout is 100 USD (that's $200 worth of Bits and Subs since Twitch takes half) so if you only ever get a few Subs or Bits from Twitch, they keep the money. At the same time Twitch begins running ads to viewers before they can join your livestream which are much longer than YouTube's and more than long enough to get a potential new viewer to click off the channel. On top of this, Twitch puts a lot of effort into breaking conventional ad blockers. Nade is probably fine with payouts for now thanks to a few generous chat members, but there's no guarantee that this will continue past her honeymoon phase with the Affiliate program.
Finally, there's the exclusivity clause, which doesn't really affect Nade since she alternates platforms, but someone who's still at 3 viewers benefits by mutistreaming and casting as wide a net as possible until their audience starts to coalesce. Sure, you can flaunt it, but you never know when the hammer is going to drop.
