Kick is officially rolling out their Creator Incentive Program. Taking to Twitter on August 14th, the platform’s community announced the first batch of creators to take part in the first class of streamers testing the platform’s new payment and creator support system.
“The greatest days of live streaming are still to come.
The greatest live content is still to be produced.
The greatest streamers are still yet to do their first stream.” - Eddie
This is The First Class of the Kick Creator Incentive Program. pic.twitter.com/FGz9vAUBJH— KickCommunity (@KickCommunity) August 14, 2023
The first class for the program included names like crazytawn, loochy, and chopstix. For a full comprehensive list of the streamers included in the first class, scroll to the bottom of the article.
Kick has been making waves in the live-streaming community this year. They branded themselves as an open and unprejudiced platform where all creators can live-stream themselves to their fans without worrying about the perceived strictness of a global platform like Twitch or YouTube. In contrast to other major streaming outlets, Kick has seemingly focused their community decisions on what is good for streamers, rather than what is best for profit or the company.
Kick debuted showing off their plan to give streamers 95% of their subscription revenue, significantly more than platforms like Twitch, and 100% of tips streamers receive from their viewers. Building on top of these ideas to give streamers more financial independence, they announced their Kick Creator Incentive Program, which will help streamers focus less on their financials and more on delivering content.
The program is hopefully going to become open for all streamers, no matter big or small, and is currently being tested by a curated list of streamers and creators. The idea: paying streamers an hourly wage and giving them the financial independence that smaller streamers lack in other major competitors. Kick star and advisor Trainwreckstv announced on Twitter at the beginning of this year that the program would pay streamers for their time, rather than relying on the generosity of their fanbase.
The program seeks to add onto Kick’s already lucrative revenue streams for creators and reward streamers for their time, whether 1 viewer or 100K viewers. The creator program functions on a simple pay formula, streamers are paid based on:
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Number of hours streamed
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Kick’s advertising CPMs (flat-rate)
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Average viewers
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Viewer demographics and engagement
Here at Streams Charts we announced in April this year that viewership statistics for Kick.com would be available to everyone for free, and those subscribed to our PRO subscription plan can delve deeper into the data and analyse additional statistics. Although this was announced in April, we have been tracking data for the platform since mid-December 2022.
We’re happy to continue supporting data and information for the rising platform, and we have curated a freely accessible list of the streamers signed to Kick’s first class of the payment program. Want to know who exactly is signed to the program, how many hours of watch time they receive weekly, or just want an easy-to-access list for the creators? All stats of Kick Incentive Program First Class streamers.
The top streamers included in Kick’s first class, ranked by watch time for August 2023
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Kick continues to make waves and innovative decisions in the live-streaming sphere, and the platform seems to only continues to grow and grow, according to our own monthly analyses. Stay up to date on the happenings in live streaming and track the data for yourself with Streams Charts.
