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Twitch.tv vs Kick.com is a bit more complicated, right?

Twitch claims it loses money on big streamers[1] and Kick is almost certainly being subsidized by online gambling company Stake[2][3].

[1] https://twitter.com/djfluffkins/status/1479362350566109184

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/12/06/trainw...

[3] https://www.bonus.com/news/stake-com-founders-own-kick/



I suspect Hollywood accounting going on here: paying inflated egress to AWS, their own property with one of if not the highest margins on egress in the business.




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