Player power
ometimes, ignorance really is bliss. Chances are we will never know how much it cost to persuade the most famous streamer on the planet, Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins, to move from Amazon’s Twitch to Microsoft’s Mixer. And it is probably better that way. One rumour put the figure at $10m a year for the next five years; in all truth, that is probably on the conservative side. At his peak in 2018, Blevins had some 200,000 subscribers and over 14 million followers on Twitch. He was banking seven figures a month. For all that his
