Twitch Is Faking Views, Kick Creator Program, YouTube CEO Quits

The Gaming Careers Podcast - A Show for Twitch and YouTube Streamers

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

Video version of the podcast:

• https://youtube.com/live/YaW4jKr52b8

Get in touch:

• Tweet us at @GamingCareers and @_BenjaminGreen
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Twitter Updates (Long Tweets, 2FA, Pay For Checkmark) (00:01:09)

3. YouTube Updates (Reply With Shorts, Susan Steps Down) (00:11:04)

4. Kick Updates (Big Moves, Creator Program) (00:19:18)

5. Twitch Updates (Inflated Views, Channel Tags, Channel Skins, TwitchCon) (00:28:27)

6. Softgiving Charity Controversy (00:45:51)