Ninja no longer has ties to any single streaming platform.
One of the most popular streamers has decided that an exclusivity deal isn't enough. Tyler"Ninja" Blevins has dropped his contract with Twitch and plans to stream on all major platforms at the same time.staging a sudden hiatus last week, Ninja has returned to announce that he won't sign a deal with Twitch or YouTube, but will instead stream simultaneously on both of them, as well as TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
"When you sign an exclusivity contract, it's usually a big fat check that's tied to it. That's guaranteed money, that's sustainability, that's comfortable. But right now, I'm basically on my own," he said while playing Fortnite on his"Technically, people like Twitch and YouTube and Facebook, they don't want people to stream on another platform, they don't want to lose viewers to another platform.
Last week, after teasing his hiatus and changing his social media profiles to say"User Not Found," Ninja's Twitch partner checkmark disappeared. Now that he's back, presumably he's no longer bound by the"multi-year" contract hewith the platform in 2020. In order to stream everywhere, he's opted out of allowing subscriptions entirely on the platform as a Twitch affiliate.
Took a little time off, but now I’m back…and I’ll be live EVERYWHERE tomorrow at 12CST pic.twitter.com/k2nt1BVUuNAt the time of this writing, around two hours into his first stream, Ninja has around 13,000 viewers on Twitch, 7,000 on YouTube, 13,400 on TikTok, and 1,000 on Facebook.
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