{"id":35069,"date":"2023-06-16T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/streamer-xqc-signed-by-twitch-rival-kick-for-100-million\/"},"modified":"2023-06-17T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T07:11:15","slug":"streamer-xqc-signed-by-twitch-rival-kick-for-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/streamer-xqc-signed-by-twitch-rival-kick-for-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Streamer xQc Signed By Twitch Rival Kick For $100 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Twitch\u2019s largest streamer, <span>F\u00e9lix \u201cxQc\u201d Lengyel<\/span>, is signing with the corporate\u2019s latest rival, Kick, a streaming platform that provides higher income splits and likewise seems to be centered round on-line playing. The non-exclusive deal is valued at as much as $100 million over two years, and is the newest and largest blow to Twitch as creator discontent continues to mount.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-1 eZHmRR\">\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-0 jLsF instream-native-video instream-permalink instream-native-video--mobile\">\n<div class=\"sc-1h0epat-0 crfeiW\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-4 kDKXjm video-html5-playlist\" data-playlist=\"194519,194972,194969\" data-current=\"194519\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-0 hAZDOz video-html5-loaded\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-1 jShsAa video-html5-player\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-0 feVyfl video-html5 autoplay muted mobile\" data-video-id=\"194519\" data-monetizable=\"true\" data-position=\"sidebar\" data-video-title=\"Rooster Teeth's RWBY x Justice League Collab Puts Batman's New Anime Abilities To Good Use\" data-video-blog-id=\"9\" data-video-network=\"kotaku\" data-video-duration=\"57\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-2 emBeiF video-top-bar\">\n<p>Rooster Tooth&#8217;s RWBY x Justice League Collab Places Batman&#8217;s New Anime Talents To Good Use<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><video disablepictureinpicture=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" preload=\"none\" style=\"max-height:none\"><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194519\/194519_240p.mp4\" label=\"240p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194519\/194519_480p.mp4\" label=\"480p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194519\/194519_720p.mp4\" label=\"720p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/194519\/194519_1080p.mp4\" label=\"1080p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><track kind=\"captions\" label=\"English\" src=\"https:\/\/kinja.com\/api\/videoupload\/caption\/19966.vtt\" srclang=\"en\"\/><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">As first <span>reported by <em>The New York Occasions<\/em><\/span>, the settlement pays out $35 million per yr, with $30 million in further incentives out there if xQc hits sure benchmarks. As <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dexerto\/status\/1669824476614205440\/photo\/1&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dexerto\/status\/1669824476614205440\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Dexerto<\/em> points out<\/a><\/span>, this is able to make it the twelfth largest annual payout in all of sports activities, placing xQc proper forward of Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Kick is a streaming platform startup funded by <span>on-line playing corporations<\/span> together with Easygo Gaming and Stake.com. <span>Following Twitch\u2019s crackdown<\/span> on playing promotion final fall, the platform attracted massive names like Adin Ross, BruceDropEmOff, and Trainwreckstv with its lax guidelines and 5\/95 income break up for creators. It\u2019s not but clear if Kick is worthwhile or the way it plans to turn out to be so, nevertheless it has managed to profit from a backlash in opposition to Twitch because the Amazon-owned platform has sought to <span>extra aggressively monetize<\/span> the folks making content material for it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twitter-embed\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=twitter-1600190841233866753&amp;autosize=1\" autoresize=\"true\" id=\"twitter-1600190841233866753\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">A \u201c<span>youngster of Twitch<\/span>\u201d raised in its often-toxic chat, xQc began on the planet of <em>League of Legends<\/em> earlier than transferring on to <em>Overwatch<\/em>, briefly competing in Blizzard\u2019s Overwatch League earlier than ultimately being launched from the Dallas Gas after a <span>collection of suspensions for offensive feedback<\/span>. He pivoted to being a full-time content material creator in 2018, with this mixture of high-level play, unfiltered remarks, and an infinite penchant for controversy turning him into Twitch\u2019s most-watched streamer by 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">By 2022, leaks revealed that xQc had earned <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/KnowS0mething\/status\/1445663228831297545\/photo\/1&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KnowS0mething\/status\/1445663228831297545\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$8 million<\/a><\/span> from subscriptions on the platform. That very same yr, he misplaced <span>$1.8 million<\/span> in a single month from on-line playing. Whereas his contract with Kick doesn\u2019t preclude him from streaming on Twitch, the latter has a rule in opposition to simulcasting, making it unclear how a lot time, if any, xQc will nonetheless dedicate to the platform that helped flip him right into a star within the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">\u201cIt\u2019s time,\u201d xQc <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/xQc\/status\/1669825271174688769&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xQc\/status\/1669825271174688769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a><\/span> on June 16, when his new partnership with Kick was introduced. The submit included a video promising his content material would stay unchanged on the brand new platform. Instantly under that was a retweet <span>displaying assist for streamer Nickmercs, <\/span>who\u2019d just lately come beneath hearth for making anti-LGBTQ+ remarks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/xqc-to-kick-twitch-twitter-reddit-adept-deal-contract-1850549551\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Twitch\u2019s largest streamer, F\u00e9lix \u201cxQc\u201d Lengyel, is signing with the corporate\u2019s latest rival, Kick, a streaming platform that provides higher income splits and likewise seems to be centered round on-line playing. The non-exclusive deal is valued at as much as $100 million over two years, and is the newest and largest blow to Twitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1748,457,5662,8005,1717,3341,4631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35070,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions\/35070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}