The Gaming Careers Podcast
Twitch Is Faking Views, Kick Creator Program, YouTube CEO Quits
On this week's episode, we discuss four of the main platforms - Twitter, YouTube, kick.com, and Twitch. We chat about the changes to Twitter's longer tweets, the impact of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down, the potential for kick.com to become a major streaming platform and Twitch's engagement strategies and the channel skins feature.
EP70
February 20, 2023
On this week’s episode, we discuss four of the main platforms – Twitter, YouTube, kick.com, and Twitch. We chat about the changes to Twitter’s longer tweets, the impact of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down, the potential for kick.com to become a major streaming platform and Twitch’s engagement strategies and the channel skins feature.
Links mentioned:
- Twitter long tweets
- Removing SMS 2FA
- Meta “pay-for-checkmark”
- YouTube reply with Shorts
- Susan Wojcicki stepping down
- Streamers moving to Kick
- Kick creator program
- Twitch’s inflated view counts
- Hogwarts Legacy breaking viewership records
- Tag channels in your Twitch title
- Twitch channel skins
- TwitchCon 2023
There is no transcript available for this podcast.
Episode Length:
49:15
HOSTS:
The founder of Gaming Careers with a borderline unhealthy obsession for cameras, microphones, and all things streaming. He gets mistaken for Stephen Merchant at least 5 times a day.
Blessed with a voice that's perfect for podcasting, cursed with a name so common that it requires underscores. Certified data nerd.
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Next Podcast Livestream:
15th May 2023
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