The Spanish streamer David “TheGrefg” Martínez made his earnings from the streaming platforms Twitch and Kick public. The result makes Twitch look bad.
Who is TheGrefg? TheGrefg is a Spanish YouTuber and Twitch streamer. His channels have over 30 million followers. His content focuses on gaming.
In 2021, he set a world record for the most concurrent viewers of a Twitch stream, because he received his own skin in Fortnite. Recently, TheGrefg has been increasingly interested in the streaming platform Kick and has been multi-streaming. In his recent 24-hour livestream, which he held on both Kick and Twitch, he compared the earnings of the two platforms.
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Twitch vs. Kick – Which platform is more financially rewarding?
How much were TheGrefg’s earnings? He announced the earnings from his 24-hour livestream on X:
- A subscription on Twitch: $1.53
- A subscription on Kick: $4.73
When calculating this over the total number of his subscriptions in those 24 hours, the result is as follows:
- Twitch: 4,579 subscriptions amount to $7,007.25
- Kick: 10,668 subscriptions amount to $50,562
Why is that? Both Kick and Twitch take a portion of the subscriptions that viewers take out with their favorite streamer. However, the cut taken by Kick is much smaller than that of Twitch. Kick takes around 5 percent, while Twitch retains either 40 or 30 percent.
How much a streamer has to give up on Twitch depends on how many points the streamer has accumulated. The first threshold is 100 points, and the second is 300. Once a streamer reaches 300 points, they only have to give up 30 percent of a Twitch subscription and can keep 70 for themselves. The streamer TheGrefg already takes advantage of the 70/30 arrangement.
What happened next? Regarding this calculation, Andrew Santamaria, an employee of Kick, mentioned on X that Kick is the best way to generate high earnings through subscriptions. He also stated that it’s best to utilize multi-streaming to encourage viewers to subscribe via Kick, thus achieving the highest earnings as a streamer.
In addition to the high participation in subs, Kick also attracts big streamers with million-dollar deals. Critics, however, say that these payments are only possible because Kick is affiliated with the casino platform Stake and may be funded by gambling money.
The streaming platform was announced shortly after Twitch introduced new regulations for showing gambling. As part of these new guidelines, Stake, which had made lucrative deals with many gambling streamers, was banned from Twitch. You can read more about the background here.
Even though the streaming platform Kick definitely offers a better opportunity in terms of earnings, not everything about the platform is good. The streamer BruceDropEmOff had a one-year contract with Kick and also got an insight behind the scenes: Twitch: Streamer was on Kick for a year, knows the backgrounds – Explains how bad it is there
