New Subscription Pricing Penalizes Streamers with Low Subscriber Volume
Brazilian streamers take a stand on the new subscription fees of Twitch, which, despite allowing the community to contribute more easily with their favorite channels, because it cares for the gain in subscription volume, ends up penalizing channel monetization.
Faced with these changes, several streamers are already commenting on the changes in their social networks, and now they have joined a Streamers Union. The name is much more of a meme than an institution to regulate the streaming profession, but it’s still a way of trying to put pressure on the Twitch to review the way in which monetization and payment policies are practiced in the country, as they clearly see a potential market in Brazil to the point of creating a localized registration fee, and not just converting from Dollars to Reais.
The initiative came from paiN Gaming’s streamer, Matheus “Pipoca”, who was extremely frustrated with finding subscriptions that considerably reduced the revenue of his channel, which is far from small with more than 500 thousand followers on the platform. Despite the policy practiced by Twitch to guarantee the Streamer with a standard contract 50% of the value per subscription, this does not take into account the US government taxes that are directly levied on the portion destined to the Streamer, not being prorated with the portion of the subscription that remains with the platform.
We are not looking for government regulation. We want to resolve directly with the platform, we want to go far from having any kind of regulation for Twitch. We don’t want a formal contract, we don’t want a minimum wage, we want to do the job the way Twitch has always done it, the only thing we’re looking for is to receive at least decent money for it. It’s 100% autonomous, you do your work, your schedule, and let’s start with that – danielhe4rt
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The meeting lasted approximately half an hour, was open to the public and was attended by around 200 people who, in addition to listening to the speeches of Pipoca and Daniel “danielhe4rt”, were also able to participate. Both streamers emphasized the motivation of the mobilization that has been taking place over the past week, asking streamers who have already joined the movement to come forward to help pressure Twitch on their demands.
Despite the name Union, jokingly, the intention is not to create an organization to fight for labor rights or regulation of the streamer profession, but only to organize the community that broadcasts on Twitch and consumes its content to charge a monetization policy that is also located, according to the location of the value of the subscriptions, thus ensuring that Brazilian streamers, large and small, do not suffer from a sudden drop in revenue, as the growth in the volume of subscriptions does not follow a progression proportional to the drop in prices.
Via: give
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