• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I thought that was allowed like a year or so ago. But I guess when they forbid it, it turned out to make less profit, so now they are back to before.

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      1 year ago

      affiliates had an exclusivity contract for new content e.g. you could only stream on Twitch but could upload the vod to YouTube. Earlier in the year they changed the rules slightly to allow simultaneous live streaming to mobile platforms e.g. TikTok. Seems like they’ve expanded it again now that they’ve realised exclusivity was hurting discoverability

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        1 year ago

        I know Critical Role didn’t have that rule in their contract, especially since they bring so much to the platform.

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            1 year ago

            I’m pretty Linus has said on the wan show before that they intentionally didn’t partner with twitch because of this and that’s why they’ve always simulcasted. It may have changed since though.

            • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz
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              Yeah, they got one of the earliest contracts. Twitch also tried to get LTT to switch to a new contract at least once, but got rejected lmao.

        • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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          They did have that rule in their contract for a long time. The earlier episodes were streamed by Geek And Sundry which bargained for an exclusion, which applied to all of Geek And Sundry. Critical Role, once independent of Geek And Sundry, had to negotiate a new contract and it took around a year iirc.

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      If you weren’t an affiliate or partner (the only way to monetize through twitch itself) you could stream on other platforms