Hey! Are you a gamer? Yeah, I thought so. And you like your games a lot too, huh? I can see that. What would you say if I paid you to play games?
No, that’s not a scam. Just what the founders of Twitch.tv are saying.
You don’t have to just play games anymore. You can now potentially play games, stream it online, and earn cash from it. Twitch.tv offers a partner programme (similar to YouTube’s) for anyone who can hit 500 concurrent viewers and 25,000 views on their channel. In an interview with BusinessInsider.com, Justin Kan, founder and chairman of Justin.tv, Twitch.tv’s mother project, claimed most users hit those numbers with ease.
This might be a new dawn for gamers who like to earn some part time cash while playing games. Twitch.tv is a side venture of the popular web streaming site Justin.tv. Kan and his CEO Emmett Shear are huge gamers, and this contributed to their interest in Twitch.
Twitch.tv allows people to watch a live stream of your screen while you play, and they can chat with each other on the side, too. It was built as a way to make professional video gamers more mainstream, but you don’t have to be a pro to play. Signing up is free, and so is being made partner.
More and more professional gamers are turning to broadcasting online, and Kan believes this is because the audience for gaming prefers staying online. It’s a growing trend, especially in spectator games like StarCraft. But if you’re well loved, it might not even matter what you play. Popular StarCraft II commentator, Sean ‘Day[9]’ Plott, gets viewers even when he’s just streaming a single player game.
If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at streaming, gaming and learning how to do a little side business, Twitch.tv could be a nice place to explore all 3 possibilities. With more than 12 million unique visitors a month, and with an audience that grows by more than ten percent every month, it definitely marks a new age in broadcasting games.
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