Do Twitch Streamers Make Money? I Sure Do!

I saw some posts here lately about people wasting their time on games. Gamers can however make money online through streaming or uploading video's of their gameplay. Do Twitch streamers make any money online? Let's take a look at that.

What Is Twitch?

Twitch is a platform where it is possible to both watch content and stream content as a broadcaster.

You can stream things such as video games, creative art and crafts, music, talk shows, cooking and baking, podcasts, nature, sports and much more.

Since Twitch was acquired by Amazon in 2014, ways to earn money through Twitch streaming have been added to the platform.

Twitch offers now the opportunity for you to become a:

• Twitch Affiliate
• Twitch Partner

Twitch Affiliate can be achieved by anyone, while Twitch Partner is a process where you need to apply and offer unique content to be invited into the program. The requirements for both programs also are quite different.

Twitch Affiliate is relatively easy to achieve and requires you to run 8 days after each other a stream for about 2-3 hours at a time. If you get all your friends and family to sit in the channel (even if they are not actively chatting in your channel), you will also easily achieve the 3 concurrent viewers on average requirement on easy-mode.

The 50 follower requirement is often the bigger problem to achieve and might take you longer than a week to achieve, but if you play it smart you can get it all done within 7-8 days to reach affiliate.

As an Twitch Affiliate you can now earn some cash through subscriptions and bits. Donations and affiliate links could always been added to the stream, whether you are affiliate, partner or nothing at all. Naturally, without an audience, you won't have anyone donating to you.

What Do You Earn As Affiliate?

• Donations on Paypal
• Bits, 100 bits = 1 USD
• Subscriptions = 5 USD for the audience, 2.50 USD for you
• Affiliate links on profile and extensions

Consistency Counts

Traffic or audience is still key to any form of a sustained business and monetizing your stream.

I am streaming on Twitch on and off, for I am still figuring out what to do with the platform. I am not a pro gamer and I am neither having much time to do it professionally. I do have ideas of what I want to do with this platform. I want to use it to teach stuff, like for example how WA works and how affiliate marketing works.

My wife also got into Twitch and is basically an influencer. She has a schedule on which she streams, 3 days a week, for about 4 hours at a time. She's been growing past me long ago with her channel and has made a good amount of money with it. She now took a coach in the hand to make her way towards partnership.

My point was that you can make money with Twitch too. I even made some money. Perhaps not anywhere near as much as my wife does, but that is logical, for I am not making the effort for it.