As of the beginning of 2025, Kick and Rumble were the platforms presenting the highest creators' revenue share. Kick shared 95 percent of streaming revenues with its creators, while Rumble shared the totality of creators' revenues generated via subscription badges. OnlyFans, which allows users to stream live content from creators as well as pre-recorded videos, shared 80 percent of fans' payments with creators. Twitch new partner program Partner Plus Program launched in June 2023 and allows streamers with at least 350 recurring paid subscribers for three months in a row to earn 70 percent of their net subscription revenue. Twitch's new partner program came right before influential live streamers xQc and Amouranth left the platform to onboard competitor's live-streaming hosting service Kick. Streamers’ revenues According to Kick’s estimations, streamers with 5,000 subscribers would be looking to earn around 23,750 U.S. dollars, thanks to the platform’s low commissions. Launched between the end of 2022 and March 2023 under the advisory of live streamer Trainwreck, Kick allows content creators to earn 95 percent of their revenues on the platform, with the service taking only five percent of streamers' subscriptions. This represents one of the lowest commission fees among this type of online video platform, with Twitch's streamers who are not eligible for the new partnership sharing 50 percent of their revenues with the Amazon-owned host, and YouTube's content creators sharing 30 percent of the Super Chat and Super Stickers received from viewers during a live streaming session with the Google-owned service. In 2022, only 22 percent of U.S. content creators who made money from creating internet videos reported making more than 1,000 U.S. dollars. In case of live-streamed content, the share of U.S. live streamers making 1,000 U.S. dollars and more were merely seven percent of the total. Kick’s rise Kick is a live streaming platform launched between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, proposing itself as a competitor to giants YouTube and Amazon-backed Twitch. Between January 2023 and April 2023, the platform grew from nine thousand channels to 67 thousand, with popular live streamers Félix Lengyel (better known as xQc) and Amouranth adding to the ranks in June of the same year. Adin Ross, who was known for streaming Grand Theft Auto V games on Twitch – was the most popular streamer on Kick during the first quarter of 2023, gathering approximately 125 peak viewers during his live streams. PaulinhoLOKObr ranked second, with around 62 thousand peak concurrent viewers for hist streams.

In 2020, the highest earning Twitch streamer based on income from advertising worldwide was Raúl Álvarez Genes aka AuronPlay. The Spanish Twitch streamer was estimated to generate 545,245 U.S. dollars in earnings from advertising per year.

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The League of Legends World Championship is an annual tournament hosted by Riot Games which pits the best League of Legends eSports players against each other for the chance to win a large amount of money. Since 2019, the League of Legends World Championships had an average prize pool of more than ********* U.S. dollars. The competition draws not just professional gamers but also avid fans of the game as well, as is evident from the large audience following the 2024 League of Legends World Championship Final, which reached **** million peak concurrent viewers. Professional eSports players’ earnings Professional eSports players can earn a significant sum of money throughout their gaming careers. For instance, Lee Sang-Hyeok, who was the leading League of Legends player worldwide according to overall earnings, had won more than *** million U.S. dollars since he began his eSports career. Looking at other games as well, Johan Sundstein was the leading eSports player worldwide based on overall earnings, having received more than ********* U.S. dollars since he started playing Dota 2 professionally. Meanwhile, Sasha Hostyn, who is well known for her achievements playing Starcraft II, was the leading female eSports player based on career earnings, having pocketed more than ******* U.S. dollars since picking up the controller professionally. League of Legends on Twitch One way for eSports fans to tune in and watch their favorite gamers is using Twitch, a live-streaming platform which offers gaming video content in addition to various other forms of online entertainment. In the ** days preceding *************, Caedrel was the leading League of Legends streamer on Twitch, having amassed close to *** million viewership hours in that period. Focusing on the number of hours different games were watched within a week, League of Legends was the third most popular video game on Twitch as of ************, with Escape from Tarkov ranking first.

Team Liquid is a professional eSports team founded in the Netherlands in 2000. The team primarily plays in Dota 2 eSports tournaments, with its total prize money won throughout its existence exceeding 32 million U.S dollars. However, the most successful Dota 2 eSports team as of July 2025 is OG, having amassed total winnings of over 37 million U.S. dollars through eSports tournaments. OG is also home to the most successful Dota 2 player of all time, N0tail. Who are the most successful Dota 2 heroes? Defense of the Ancients 2, better known as Dota 2, is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game which was launched for PC in 2013. In the game, players control characters, known as heroes, with unique skillsets and collaborate to attack a structure called the Ancient within their enemies’ homebase. From among the 124 playable characters to choose from, Zeus was the leading Dota 2 hero based on their kills/deaths/assists (KDA) ratio in the 12 months preceding August 2024. Meanwhile, Abaddon was the leading Dota 2 hero according to win rate, scoring a slightly higher victory percentage than the second placed hero Wraith King. Looking at popularity, Pudge was the Dota 2 hero with the most matches, having been selected in more than 75 million games during the aforementioned time period. How many people stream games on Twitch? Twitch is a live-streaming platform that offers gaming video content, among other forms of online entertainment, to millions of fans worldwide. As of October 2024, there were nearly 6.91 million active Twitch streamers worldwide, although this figure had been experiencing a downward trend since February of that year. As of December 2024, Richard Tyler Blevins was the most followed live streamer on Twitch globally, with close to 19 million fans subscribing to watch his content online. Being a professional gamer himself, Blevins plays and streams under the alias “ninja”, with some of his most famous content being centered around the battle royale videogame Fortnite. As of December 2024, Fortnite was the most popular game on Twitch by hours streamed.

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This statistic shows the leading eSporters in FIFA 18 from the Netherlands as of *************, by prize money earned (in U.S. dollars). FIFA 18 is a sports video game that simulates football. It is one of the most popular video games to watch on YouTube and Twitch and its mode FIFA Ultimate Team (or FUT), which in essence works like a collectible card game, has a large audience.

As of *************, eSporter Dani Hagebeuk, the professional eSporter of football club Ajax Amsterdam, had earned a total of approximately ****** U.S. dollars in professional gaming tournaments in 2018. According to esportsearning.com, this makes him the top earner in the Netherlands. Most of the popularity of video games comes from online streams. Twitch reached a penetration rate of ** percent among game stream watchers in the Netherlands as of 2017.