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What Marketers Need To Know About TwitchCon 2018

What Marketers Need To Know About TwitchCon 2018

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TwitchCon 2018: The Best Content Creators, Twitch Streamers, Brands, & Events

Twitch.tv, a livestreaming platform focused on video gaming, launched in 2011. Since then, it has become the hub of video-game content streaming online. Although Twitch isn’t as diverse or widely known as YouTube, it engages a large, young, and primarily male audience. Platform users spend, on average, over an hour watching content daily. With so much time spent on Twitch, the platform offers marketers and influencers a world of opportunity.

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From October 26-28th, the San Jose Convention Center will transform into TwitchCon 2018. The weekend-long event combines sessions and workshops featuring the most popular livestreamers, previews from top video game developers, and opportunities to grow your brand. Tickets are available to the public with day and full-weekend options available.

Those attending fall under one of three categories: Community, Affiliate, or Partner. Not all attendees can access every event at the convention, but the Sessions, Meet & Greets, and Expo Hall are open to all. To let the world know you’ll be at TwitchCon 2018, you can even turn on the exclusive 2018 Twitch Chat Badge.

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How Brands Can Capitalize On Kid Influencers

How Brands Can Capitalize On Kid Influencers

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Brands Use Kid Influencers To Maximize Marketing Efforts - Are You Kidding?

Major brands have revved their marketing engines as they race to the new kids on the block — kid influencers. Influencer marketing is nothing new, but the advent of social media marketing in the 2010s opened the door to influencers of all shapes and sizes. As the use of social media by kids and teens grew increasingly acceptable, it became possible for young people to emerge as powerful online influencers. Today, kid influencers pack a powerful marketing punch for many big-name brands.

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Companies like Target, Band-Aid, and CoverGirl are turning to school-age stars to promote their products. To better understand how pint-sized influencers have caught the attention of corporate power-players, one must understand the history behind it.

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What Is A YouTube Creator?

What Is A YouTube Creator?

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What Qualifies Someone As A YouTube Creator?

According to YouTube, YouTube Creators are, “approachable and a constant presence in their viewers' lives; they are passionate, socially wired and excel at building authentic person-to-person connections.”

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More broadly, YouTube Creators are individuals who produce content for the YouTube platform. From vlogs, to “how-tos,” to travel and lifestyle journals, to comedy skits, to “let’s play” clips, to highly produced non-fiction and narrative content, anyone who makes videos for a YouTube Channel can be considered a YouTube Creator.
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Why Athlete Influencers Are So Effective

Why Athlete Influencers Are So Effective

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Top Professional And Socially Relevant Athlete Influencers Attract Brands As Their Impact Is Felt Online

For years, professional athletes have been used to endorse a variety of brands, products, and services. Michael Jordan’s partnership with Nike, recognized by many as the archetypal athlete endorsement deal — which produced a successful spinoff brand — has been modeled by many other partnerships that have resulted in several billion dollars worth of contracts.

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Across sports, athlete deals continue to grow and evolve. Not only have sports, telecommunication, automobile, beverage, hotel, technology, and many other companies upped their antes, but athletes from a variety of disciplines, including surfing, motocross, base jumping, and other unconventional sports are partnering with brands to promote their wares.
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Is Caffeine.tv the New Twitch?

Is Caffeine.tv the New Twitch?

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Caffeine.tv Vs Twitch: Video Game Livestream Showdown

Caffeine.tv is the latest entrant onto the video game livestreaming scene. This places it in the same market niche as Twitch, arguably the most dominant livestreaming video platform. Among the pack of contenders includes YouTube, which has battled back and forth with Twitch to command the gaming livestreaming space.

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Caffeine has a clean, almost Spartan, interface. The lack of clutter on-site helps ensure that streaming is real-time, with no noticeable delay. However, users may find it unnerving to enter a channel on Caffeine intending to lurk, only for the streamer to give the viewer a personal welcoming sound-out call. Compared to Twitch, Caffeine shows signs of promise amongst the gaming community.
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Top Hotel & Hospitality Brands Working With Travel Influencers

Top Hotel & Hospitality Brands Working With Travel Influencers

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Travel Influencers Help Hotel Brands Reach Their Target Audiences

Travel influencers have created some of the most popular accounts and channels on social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube. Bringing the world to their followers, they offer picturesque images and videos, as well as recommendations on sites to see and places to stay. Hospitality brands looking to engage with consumers interested in travel have partnered with travel and other influencers to entice future residents to their hotels and resorts.

While many hotels are seeking to tap into the power of influencers, The Atlantic reports that some online personalities — both legitimate and otherwise — regularly push hotels for free stays in exchange for promotional posts. According to the piece, prestigious properties can receive a dozen or more messages per day from individuals claiming to be influencers. As a result, some hotels have created special application forms for influencer requests, while others have even banned influencers altogether.

Influencer marketing is on the rise as the hospitality industry also experiences impressive growth. Hospitality companies looking to catch the wave of influencer marketing can look to the successes of other hotel brands for insight into what works within the travel space.

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Has Twitch Surpassed YouTube?

Has Twitch Surpassed YouTube?

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Twitch Vs YouTube: Who Will Become Champion Of Livestreaming?

YouTube and Twitch’s battle for livestream supremacy reached new heights in August 2018 when online celebrities Logan Paul and KSI exchanged blows during an amateur boxing match inside of the UK’s Manchester Arena. Developed as a $10 pay-per-view (PPV) for YouTube, the event brought in 860,000 paid streams on the platform. During the same time, however, pirated streams on Twitch reached 1.2 million — the largest of them broadcasting to 400,000 viewers. While legitimate purchases and illegal streams don’t make for an apples to apples comparison, the situation highlights a growing Twitch vs YouTube rivalry that’s playing out in real-time.

YouTube debuted livestreaming for select users in April of 2011. Two months later, Twitch.tv, launched as a gaming spinoff of livestreaming site Justin.tv. Twitch’s built-in audience and dedicated platform made it a hit among gamers, with popularity eventually eclipsing that of its predecessor.

YouTube didn’t offer a dedicated service for gamers until 2015 when Twitch was already a leader in the category — having been purchased by retail giant Amazon the previous year. Since then, the Twitch vs YouTube struggle has continued to grow as the two platforms vie for the attention of gamers and other livestreamers.

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How Much Do Top Twitch Streamers Make?

How Much Do Top Twitch Streamers Make?

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How Much Do Twitch Streamers Make? The Top 10 Earn Over $20 Million A Year.

Twitch.tv, a live streaming video platform, was purchased by Amazon for $970 million back in September 2014. Since then, many gamers have taken to the platform to share their craft with the gaming world. The more successful streamers have gone on to catapult their gaming accounts into the business realm, raking in thousands of dollars per month.

At an estimated $23 million in total yearly revenue, the top 10 most popular Twitch streamers have laid claim to an empire that appears to only keep expanding since Twitch launched in 2011. Based on this data alone, the platform could be on track to outpace its rival, YouTube Gaming. While YouTube and Twitch battle it out for dominance in the video game live streaming arena, onlookers can witness and contribute to the immense amount of money coursing through Twitch’s top streamers.

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How Do Twitch Streamers Make Money?

How Do Twitch Streamers Make Money?

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7 Ways That Twitch Streamers Monetize Their Channels To Earn Money

Twitch.tv, the Amazon-owned live streaming video platform, is a major player in both the video game and online video industries. Twitch livestreams broadcast the gamer playing a video game, while fans livechat and engage with both the streamer and fellow followers in a chatroom setting. Professional Twitch streamers can make hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars per year by sharing live videos on the platform.

How do Twitch streamers make money? Twitch is known for its generous monetization options for creators. This opportunity for gamers to make money has fueled the popularity of the niche platform in spite of fierce competition from behemoths like YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming. Video game enthusiasts flock to Twitch to watch elite gamers play popular games, rewarding them by becoming a paid channel subscriber or sending “Bits,” Twitch’s virtual currency. Even beyond the Twitch platform, professional gamers have found ways to earn a living by tapping into their fervent fanbase.

7 Ways Twitch Streamers Make Money:

    1. Paid subscription revenue to Twitch streamers' official channels
    2. Donations and Bit Cheers from Twitch followers
    3. Advertising revenue via Twitch and other social channels
    4. Sponsorships from gaming industry brands
    5. Professional gaming, including eSports sponsorships and winning tournaments
    6. Affiliate sales
    7. Merchandise sales

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3 YouTube Controversies That Shook The Influencer Marketing World

3 YouTube Controversies That Shook The Influencer Marketing World

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Devastating YouTube Controversies And Broken Brand Deals

Some of the most powerful voices on the internet are YouTube creators (also known as YouTubers). With followers that can span into the several millions, YouTubers are highly sought entertainers and experts in video categories such as gaming, makeup, lifestyle, travel, and more. However, these online personalities sometimes exercise poor judgment, producing distasteful content, ignoring social mores, violating rules, and even breaking the law.

When an indiscretion or offense occurs on the part of an influencer, the same machinery that accelerated their ascent can also be used to tear them down. However, the fallout isn’t always limited to the person committing the transgression. Partners, businesses, brands, and others also suffer negative consequences from their association with controversial figures.

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