re: Twitch streamer, xQc signs 2 year deal for $100M

Kick is backed by an online casino. Online casinos have paid millions to streamers to promote Bitcoin gambling to kids but the streamers were getting kicked off of Twitch and Youtube so the casinos backed Kick

This dude is getting paid $100 million to continue to promote foreign-based Bitcoin casinos to kids and show them how to use proxies to access them.


Twitch Mega Streamer xQc Signed By Gambling Company For $100 Million

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Twitch’s biggest streamer, Félix “xQc” Lengyel, is signing with the company’s newest rival, Kick, a streaming platform that offers better revenue splits and also appears to be centered around online gambling. The non-exclusive deal is valued at up to $100 million over two years, and is the latest and biggest blow to Twitch as creator discontent continues to mount.

As first reported by The New York Times, the agreement will pay out $35 million per year, with $30 million in additional incentives available if xQc hits certain benchmarks. As Dexerto points out, this would make it the 12th biggest annual payout in all of sports, putting xQc right ahead of Kevin Durant.

Kick is a streaming platform startup funded by online gambling companies including Easygo Gaming and Stake.com. Following Twitch’s crackdown on gambling promotion last fall, the platform attracted big names like Adin Ross, BruceDropEmOff, and Trainwreckstv with its lax rules and 5/95 revenue split for creators. It’s not yet clear if Kick is profitable or how it plans to become so, but it has managed to benefit from a backlash against Twitch as the Amazon-owned platform has sought to more aggressively monetize the people making content for it.

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Stake and Roobet were paying referral fees in the millions to streamers based on the losses of the people they referred to their site