The Benefits of YouTube Versus Twitch For Streamers

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Streaming is a viable career and a very common hobby. For gamers everywhere, livestreaming as they play through popular games offers a great opportunity to build up a community and potentially make some money. As the popularity of streaming continues to rise, streamers have a few options when it comes to choosing a platform for their content.

While not the only options for streamers, Twitch and YouTube are the two most populated platforms in terms of streaming. The two websites offer different pros and cons, and some streamers will utilize both or switch back-and-forth between the two. The choice of which site to post the majority of one's content to largely depends on a streamer's personal preferences and streaming style.

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Twitch is owned by Amazon and is a streaming-only platform. That means the only content available is current or recent livestreams, not pre-recorded videos. While any kind of content can be streamed, a vast majority of content creators on Twitch are video game streamers, which has led to Twitch's reputation as a platform meant for video games first and foremost. Because of this, it can potentially be easier for streamers to grow an audience on Twitch when playing games because the built-in community is large and like-minded. Many of the most popular streamers in the world; people like Ninja, Pokimane, shroud, and more; have proven that wild success on Twitch is possible.

The threshold for monetizing a Twitch stream is notably lower than YouTube's. In order to become a Twitch affiliate, a streamer needs a minimum of 50 followers, an average of three viewers per stream, and a total of 500 minutes streamed over a seven-day period. Twitch also offers