Kick welcomed a brand new face to their platform just a few days in the past – they usually plunked down some critical money for it.
Felix Lengyel aka “xQc” is without doubt one of the absolute largest and most profitable streamers on Twitch. He’s adopted by virtually 12 million folks and more often than not he has a median of over 50,000 viewers.
xQc is understood for his quick, energetic manner of talking, but additionally for his important opinions and former streams on totally different on line casino websites. Fittingly, he has now secured a cope with the platform Kick.com whose operators are on line casino homeowners.
Non-exclusive deal for $100 million
Any longer, nevertheless, the 27-year-old is not going to solely stream solely on Kick, but additionally nonetheless on Twitch. Not like different identified bigger offers, xQc shouldn’t be obliged to go dwell solely on the brand new platform
In keeping with Staiy the contract even says that streamers are welcome to start out on Twitch after which take viewers to the competitor.
For such a deal, Kick needs to shell out a complete of 100 million US {dollars} . For this, the Twitch star has entered right into a contract that can earn him a primary 70 million US {dollars} over two years
As well as, he will get 30 million on high if he achieves sure objectives. That makes him greater than high NBA participant LeBron James, who most just lately signed a $97.1 million contract.
How is xQc making greater than Lebron James 😭 pic.twitter.com/1crEWMsaHe
– FearBuck (@FearedBuck) June 16, 2023
Additional, the influencer hints that he gave up among the cash inside the deal and now has shares in Kick.com. He might most likely select to take action.
He additionally emphasises that he has confidence within the platform.
xQc signifies he might need taken fairness as a part of his $100 million in compensation from Kick pic.twitter.com/AkYAmvPwVE
– Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 19, 2023
xQc shares his enterprise on Twitter and (expresses) that Kick offers him the chance to strive new issues that weren’t possible earlier than.
He at all times needs to stream in rotation and play each platforms equally, (he says).
IT’S TIME pic.twitter.com/jHRWkn5WEP
– xQc (@xQc) June 16, 2023
xQc crashes web site of Kick.com
No sooner does the web star go dwell for the primary time on the Twitch competitor than the servers crash. The location stopped working for a while.
Kick is experiencing stability points as a consequence of immense site visitors (50x our normal). We’re overwhelmed by your help and can get this mounted rapidly 🔧
– Kick.com (@KickStreaming) June 17, 2023
It was additionally reported that over 1 million new registrations have been recorded inside 24 hours. However it isn’t simply him who’s making the platform successful, Amouranth has additionally moved there.
To this point, bringing Lengyel onto the platform appears to be bearing fruit. However there are nonetheless doubts locally as as to if Kick can catch on. Many draw parallels to the mixer offers Ninja and Shroud did again then, which additionally didn’t repay afterwards. As is well-known, the dwell stream service needed to shut down.
