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  • Microsoft’s Mixer Still Lags Behind Amazon’s Twitch Despite Growth

    Microsoft’s Mixer Still Lags Behind Amazon’s Twitch Despite Growth

    According to StreamElements year-end report, Microsoft’s Mixer streaming service grew some 149 percent in 2019, yet still lagged far behind rival Twitch.

    Amazon’s Twitch has long dominated online game streaming, with 1,256,000 average concurrent viewers. Over the last couple of years, Microsoft has tried to challenge Twitch with its Mixer streaming service, even scoring some major exclusivity deals. One of the biggest was when Microsoft poached Twitch star Ninja.

    While such deals helped Mixer grow, it still only commands a mere 3 percent of the streaming market, as opposed to the 1 percent it had in 2018. The same is true for Facebook Gaming, another streaming platform for gamers. While Twitch did lose market share, it only lost two points going from 75 to 73 percent, leaving it as the overwhelmingly dominant service. Similarly, the second place streaming service, YouTube Gaming, lost a single point, going from 22 to 21 percent.

    In spite of the two leaders losing market share, they both registered growth in viewership. YouTube Gaming saw a 16 percent growth rate over 2018, while Twitch registered a solid 20 percent.

    According to StreamElements, the platforms cumulatively accounted for a total of 12,731,686,280 hours of viewership in 2019, up from 10,344,857,722 in 2010. In view of this report, two things are clear: viewers appetite for watching video game streaming is voracious; and Microsoft Mixer, as well as Facebook Gaming, have plenty of room to grow.

  • ‘Ninja’ Tyler Blevins Could be First $10 Million a Year Fortnite Gamer

    ‘Ninja’ Tyler Blevins Could be First $10 Million a Year Fortnite Gamer

    The best Fortnite player in the world, ‘Ninja’ Tyler Blevins, says he currently makes more than $500,000 a month and may just become the world’s first $10 million a year gamer. Ninja has over 20 million subscribers to his YouTube channel and a reported 200,000+ paying subscribers watching Blevins livestream on Twitch.

    ‘Ninja’ Tyler Blevins, coming off appearances on Ellen and Jimmy Fallon, discussed his Fortnite success and wealth in an interview on CNN Business:

    Blevins Makes More than $500,000 a Month

    Losing tens of thousands of dollars sitting for this interview is a perfect assumption. With Fortnite alone I’ve streamed 3,400 hours this past year. That’s 142 days of gaming and streaming. On a good month I make more than $500,000 a month.

    When I started making more than $80,000 a year streaming and gaming was the deciding factor in leaving college and quitting my job at Noodles & Company. That was the deciding factor by my Mom. By no means was she going to let me quit my job or drop out of school.

    I say “drop out of school,” I don’t even like that because I always had every intention of going back. I actually did go back when I had an eye issue thing and my stream took a dive. After hitting $80,000 a year I said Mom, I’m doing this until I make less and then I will go back.

    Could be the First $10 Million a Year Gamer

    I definitely could be the first $10 million a year gamer. It’s rare that I meet people that don’t know what I’m doing. But if I had a dollar every time I was at an airport and someone asks what I’m doing. I say I’m going to a tournament. I answer it’s a video game tournament. They are amazed I make money playing video games. The gaming tournament explanation is simple. A bunch of people buy a team pass. That money goes into the prize pool winner take all.

    70 Percent of Revenue Comes from Twitch and YouTube

    Streaming is the hardest part for people to understand. How do you make money streaming? The answer is ad revenue. There are going to be ads in commercial breaks. Those advertising companies pay the network and it’s the same way with streaming. However many people see the ads, you get money there. Also, people can subscribe.

    I make most of my money from Twitch and YouTube. It’s constant, it’s consistent, it’s monthly. About 70 percent of my money comes from Twitch and YouTube together. And then like brand deals with Red Bull and others make up the rest. It’s really simple, it’s like subscribing to a magazine, Spotify, or anything like that. It’s the same thing.

    My favorite reference is a guy on the street playing the violin. He’s not expected to get any money, maybe a couple of bucks. If you enjoy it a lot sometimes people will throw in twenty’s and five’s. It’s the same thing with me, but I absolutely have a big violin case.


  • Marilyn Manson Performs With Johnny Depp And Ninja Of Antwoord For Halloween

    As a surprise for his audience at The Roxy Theater on Halloween, rocker Marilyn Manson brought two guests to join him onstage: Johnny Depp and Die Antwoord’s Ninja. The two joined Manson onstage for a performance of his song “The Beautiful People” at a Halloween concert on October 31, Friday.

    While Depp played the guitar, Manson and Ninja reportedly paraded on the stage and worked the crowd for the single off Antichrist Superstar. Ninja hugged Depp at one point during the song.

    Manson had hosted Depp before at one of his performances. In 2012, Manson and Depp performed together at the 4th Annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards. Meanwhile, Depp also played guitar on a cover of Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” that Manson did and was released as a bonus track.

    Depp and Manson first became friends with each other on the set of 1999’s Sleepy Hollow. Since then, Manson has also been showing up at red-carpet premieres of Depp’s films, including 2001’s From Hell, 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, 2011’s The Rum Diary, and this year’s Transcendence.

    The last time that Manson had published an album was for Born Villain in 2012. However, Manson will reportedly be launching a new album in 2015. He recently launched a single called “Third Day of a Seven Day Binge,” which is the first from his upcoming album.

    In between musical projects, Manson has also been known to dabble in acting, having appeared in Once Upon A Time and recently, in the role of a white supremacist, in Sons Of Anarchy.

    Meanwhile, Depp has also been having a music-filled year in 2014. The 51-year-old actor has collaborated with other musicians. Depp has performed with Aerosmith, Paul McCartney and Ryan Adams as well as briefly joined the New Basement Tapes, played with Willie Nelson and recorded something for Butch Walker’s upcoming LP.