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A Kick streamer shares his first 30 days of earnings as a partner, revealing $666.67 in partner pay from 142.5 hours of streaming with an average of 30 viewers. He compares this to Twitch, where he earned less despite double the viewers and hours, attributing the difference to Kick's ad-free model and engagement-based pay.
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The creator shares 30-day Kick earnings for transparency and to help aspiring streamers understand potential income.
He dislikes Twitch's ad breaks (6-12 per hour) and prefers Kick's ad-free experience for both viewers and streamers.
September earnings: $628.77 total, including $526 partner pay, $37.92 subscriptions, $61.62 gifted subs, and $2.50 in kicks.
Combined September (23 days) and October (7 days) partner pay: $666.67 from 142.5 hours streamed, averaging $4.68 per hour.
Average 30 viewers per stream. Partner pay is based on viewer count and chat engagement, not ads.
On Twitch (July-August), he had double the viewers and streamed more than double the hours but earned just over half the Kick income.
He argues gambling streams exist on both platforms and that Kick offers better pay and viewer experience.
Recommends starting with YouTube videos to build an audience before streaming.
Kick offers higher pay and an ad-free experience for streamers with modest audiences, making it a viable alternative to Twitch for smaller creators.
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How much partner pay did the streamer earn in his first 30 days on Kick?
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How much partner pay did the streamer earn in his first 30 days on Kick?
$666.67
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How many hours did he stream in those 30 days?
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How many hours did he stream in those 30 days?
142.5 hours
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What was his average viewers per stream on Kick?
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What was his average viewers per stream on Kick?
30 viewers
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What is the hourly rate from partner pay on Kick?
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What is the hourly rate from partner pay on Kick?
$4.68 per hour
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How does Kick's partner pay differ from Twitch's ad revenue?
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How does Kick's partner pay differ from Twitch's ad revenue?
Kick pays based on viewer count and chat engagement without ads; Twitch pays for running ads.
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How much did he earn from subscriptions and gifted subs in 30 days?
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How much did he earn from subscriptions and gifted subs in 30 days?
About $146 total
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What was his Twitch earnings comparison?
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What was his Twitch earnings comparison?
On Twitch with double viewers and more than double hours, he earned just over half of Kick's partner pay.
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π‘ Key Takeaways
September Earnings Revealed
Provides concrete numbers for a small streamer's first month on Kick.
02:06Hourly Rate Calculation
Shows the actual per-hour earnings from partner pay, a key metric for streamers.
05:59Twitch vs Kick Earnings
Direct comparison highlights Kick's higher pay for smaller audiences.
07:40Gambling Perception Addressed
Challenges the common criticism of Kick with a balanced view.
09:02Advice for Aspiring Creators
Practical tip to build audience on YouTube before streaming.
10:10Full Transcript
[00:03] and today I'm making a very different video than I usually make. Today I have officially been streaming on Kick as a partner for 30 days and I have been Now I'm making this video to show you guys how much money I've made on Kick so
[00:18] far in one month. Not to brag, but only to show you guys some transparency and also to maybe help somebody else out if they are an aspiring content creator looking to stream. and wondering how much you can actually make from
[00:31] streaming and to a certain audience base. I am not a big streamer by any means and I'm just here sharing some hopefully insightful knowledge to the streaming community and also just like if you ever think about streaming for
[00:44] yourself. I just wanted to share you share some insider information or some knowledge that I have gotten from streaming on kick.
[00:56] I just want to say like I've gotten a couple of questions of why I'm streaming on Kick compared to Twitch, for example. And the main reason is really that I don't like the current advertisement situation going on over on Twitch. When
[01:09] I'm watching a Twitch stream, I usually get served with at least six ads per hour, sometimes up to 12 ads per hour as well or 10 ads per hour. Basically, there's a lot of advertisements and even using something like a u like ad blocker
[01:23] isn't really enough all the time. I do like Twitch Turbo, but like you have to pay to bypass ads. On kick, there are no ads, but the streamers still get paid as if there are ads. So, it's simply a better viewing experience. And me as a
[01:37] streamer as well or a content creator, I feel better if I can give my content or give my audience content that they don't have to sit through a bunch of ads in order to watch. The amount of ad breaks on Twitch just kind of ruins the whole
[01:52] experience for me. And I'm glad to see that we have an option where there are that we have an option where there are no ads required. how much money I've made streaming on kick for 13 days straight. This right
[02:06] here is my September earnings. So here we can see that I've made $628.77. made. That is not just subscriptions. That is partner income and everything.
[02:21] I'm going to go over to the partner income here. And this is like the steady payment you're getting even if nobody subs to you. This is just the payment you're getting based on, for example, how many viewers you have, how talkative
[02:34] they are, and how many engage they are in the stream itself. Kick is using like a very weird metric, but you basically get rewarded more the more active your chat is, and the less lurkers you have, and it's kind of a way to combat the
[02:47] whole botting epidemic we're seeing in the streaming community at the moment. Either way, think of this as the payment you would be getting on Twitch for running advertisements. But on Kick, there are no advertisements
[03:00] connected to the revenue you're getting in the partner income segment. Then we also have chat chat engagement. This is basically me getting paid kicks, which is the kick version of a bit on Twitch, right? So I basically got two and a half
[03:14] dollars in kicks or bits and I ended up getting some gifted subscriptions and some regular subscriptions. You can see here $37.92 in subscriptions and $61.62 in gifted subscriptions. That is about
[03:30] in gifted subscriptions. That is about $100 in like in addition to the partner pay that we got paid from people simply supporting my content. Either way, the supporting my content. Either way, the partner pay 526 bucks in September
[03:43] alone. Now, we did start streaming on September the 8th through the kick partner program. So, we have to add some days from October as well. Going over to October, we can add the first eight days here. That way, we have a total of 30
[03:58] days because um well, we had 23 days in September. We now have 7 days of September. We now have 7 days of October. Over here, we have made $141 in partner income. And we have also gotten some gifted subs. $47.40
[04:13] like um total of gifted subs. The total revenue there would be $1882.
[04:25] how much you got paid for every single stream and how long the stream lasted. You don't get to see on the VOD how many viewers you were averaging. So that's kind of one thing that is missing from the whole analytics that you get access
[04:37] to later in the stream. But for analytics for me, I am averaging about 30 viewers per stream. And I'm going to get into the per like money we made per hour and also the amount of hours we streamed as well. So, so far we have
[04:52] once again made quite a lot for one month of streaming, especially my first month over on kick as well. But exactly how much did we end up getting? Well, actually take a look at that as I've written it down. This is the total
[05:06] amount we are currently looking at. Dragging this slightly more this way. You can see that we made this is referring back to the partner pay by the way. So not how much we got paid with the gifted subs. This is only the
[05:19] partner pay. This is how much you would get paid for the viewers that I had even get paid for the viewers that I had even if nobody subscribed. So in September we if nobody subscribed. So in September we got 526 bucks and so far in October we
[05:31] got 526 bucks and so far in October we have 141 bucks. That gives me a total of 666. at the 67 bucks. Now, for the hours streamed, we streamed 104 hours in September, and we have so far streamed
[05:46] September, and we have so far streamed 38 1/2 hours in October as well. So, 38 1/2 hours in October as well. So, that gives us a total of 142.5 hours streamed and taking that amount of money divided by the hours streamed, we
[05:59] are looking at 4.68 bucks per hour. Now, I have quite an active chat and we also have roughly about 30 viewers on average. Sometimes we have a little bit more, sometimes we have a little bit less. It just depends
[06:13] on the content happening on the stream, which I do think is kind of well that that's normal. The more exciting content you're doing, the more fun it is to watch, and the more fun it is to watch, well, the more viewers you tend to have.
[06:28] Now, if we refer back to the dashboard, we also had some gifted subscriptions and some regular subscriptions, and that ended up at being about $146 in total for 30 days as well. So, basically almost the exact same amount
[06:44] as the hours streamed. So, we can add one more dollar per hour when you count the gifted subs. I don't want to count that in this calculation because how many gifted subs you get depends entirely on number one how dedicated
[06:59] they have to spend. You can simply stream to one viewer and have that person be absolutely loaded and really dedicated to you and gift you 100 subs per month or you can have a 100 viewers and nobody gifts you anything, right?
[07:14] So, it's kind of weird to count that in to like me giving advice for streaming. It's weird to count the gifted subs and also the regular subs. So, this is just a partner pay. This is how much you're getting if you have 30 viewers and they
[07:28] are pretty engaged in the chat based on the hours streamed of course. So, this is a total amount that I made from 142 hours streamed and to 30 viewers on
[07:40] average. So comparing that to Twitch for example, these are my Twitch analytics from July to August this year. So not that long ago, quite recent. Over here, we had double the amount of viewers that we had
[07:55] on Kick. And we also streamed for more than double the amount of time. And we than double the amount of time. And we made a little bit over half of the money made on Kick. And when it comes to revenue, a lot of that is subs as well.
[08:07] You can see 43 subscriptions over here. Meanwhile, we had way less on kick than 43. If we go over here, for example, we can go to the revenue once again. Um, yeah, like revenue over here. Subscriptions, we have zero in October,
[08:21] but some gifted subs. And we can see we have nine active subs and 10 gifted for September. We also had like 10 gifted and nine active. So, we had way more
[08:33] subs over on kick uh over on Twitch. I mean, we streamed for way more time. We had double the amount of viewers and still you get paid less. Meanwhile, the audience has to watch a bunch of ads. So, the main reason for me swapping over
[08:46] is that I can, as a smaller content creator, get paid more on Kick while giving my audience a better product due to no ads and we can still have somewhat of the same chatting experience over on Kick as well.
[09:02] Now, when it comes to kick versus Twitch, I also see a bunch of comments all the time saying that tw kick is only for gambling. And I'm just going to say I feel like I see just as many gambling streams on Twitch. Maybe not just as
[09:15] many, but almost very close. And many of the people that stream gambling on Quick Kick, they also multiream their gambling over to Twitch as well. And there's a lot more Twitch streamers now being sponsored by different gambling
[09:28] like that. I'm betting you've heard of those. And they're sponsoring a bunch of and Bet sponsoring Twitch streamers and you have um whatever they're called, stake um sponsoring kick streamers,
[09:42] right? So that the whole gambling thing is always going to be a problem on just about every single platform. And also there's a bunch of like girls streaming fans, which I also don't like anyway. So like any platform has their problems. To
[09:57] me, I just want to stream, make content, and have a good time. And I feel like I'm being more respected on Kick. I get more like banging for my buck, and I get to provide a better quality product at the same time. So, I think it's a
[10:10] hopefully this video was informative and helpful, and maybe anyone aspiring to be a content creator gets anything out of seeing those numbers. Either way, I'm just going to say, by the way, I have a pretty big following here on YouTube
[10:24] that I'm really, really blessed to have. So, if you're starting out as a content creator, I would say start by making videos. Make videos, make a guides, be helpful, be informative, provide value, and then start streaming. Either way,
[10:39] something out of this, and if you did, leave a like down below. If you did not, me know your thoughts in the comments. Hopefully this clarified something and I'll see you on Kick. Okay, kick.com/swalltv.
[10:53] kick.com/swalltv. Be there. Peace out. Bye.