Twitch warns US sub price increases “extremely likely” after international updates::undefined

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    9 months ago

    After already reducing the creator cut and increasing ads… super curious what their books look like.

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      9 months ago

      With moves like that, I’m guessing that they’ve never been even close to being in the black.

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      9 months ago

      They are still losing money, but in the way that all tech companies spending every dollar that comes in so they can expand and build a monopoly loses money.

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      9 months ago

      Everyone’s commenting on their books but twitch’s published numbers are all bullshit pretending they’re paying market rate for AWS when they obviously get a deal being a subsidiary of Amazon. IIRC their last attempt to show they needed to up prices even had them using non-bulk AWS rates which they obviously wouldn’t pay even if they werent owned by Amazon.

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      9 months ago

      Iirc they lose money or something right? It’s probably only able to run because Amazon has a shit ton of money.

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      9 months ago

      They’ve never once made money. Twitch is a massive money pit where 99% of the creators on the platform are explicitly leeching while bringing nothing by way of income.