Within the past year, Twitch has been pruning its payment program for esports teams to focus on a smaller number of top teams, leading others to adopt YouTube to make up for the lost revenue.
August 28, 2019

Twitch has made cuts to its program in which the company pays esports teams to stream on the Amazon-owned video platform. The payment reductions are pushing more teams to post clips of their Twitch livestreams to YouTube in order to make up for the lost revenue and ease their reliance on the game-centric streaming service. Read more below.

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