Twitch threatened by Kick, the rising streaming platform

Twitch seemed unstoppable not long ago, but for some time now, a competitor has been starting to make some serious waves: Kick, the platform co-founded by Australian billionaire Ed Craven, is attracting big names in streaming. To seduce large, Kick has real advantages against its monumental competitor, such as optional subscription, better compensation for steamers, or even fewer restrictions and censorship. Trainwrecks gaming streamers. Adin Ross (banned from Twitch at the beginning of the year), Buddha as well as the “charm” streamer Amouranth joined the Kick platform recently, and there is little doubt that the transhumance has only just begun…

Despite (or perhaps since) its successful start, Kick has been affected by several controversies. Thus, the platform would have been founded thanks to leaks of the source code of Twitch, and the moderation would be much too light, even if some consider on the contrary that the rather puritanical censorship of Twitch deserved to have lived. Will the Kick platform manage to shake up the giant Twitch? It may take more than a few streaming stars to change that, but after all, Rome wasn’t built in a day…