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 Chloyster [she/her]   ( @chloyster@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 2 years ago

Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs

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Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs

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 Chloyster [she/her]   ( @chloyster@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 2 years ago
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Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has admitted the Amazon-owned streaming platform isn't profitable. Clancy led a Q&A stream on Twi…
  •  z3rOR0ne   ( @z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Lol, so Google foots the hosting bill either on YT or GDrive? That is hilarious.

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      Yes, though I suspect that given the size of the raw videos, the creators I sub to probably all pay for additional gDrive space. 15GB is the free limit afaik, and some of the videos are 5GB+ each, and there are tens of videos.

      •  z3rOR0ne   ( @z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Consider using yt-dlp. You can download any video from youtube in any quality available.

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          I back them on Patreon because I want to support them monetarily, not because I want higher video quality.

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            My apologies, I misread your previous comment. Please disregard.

            •  t3rmit3   ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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              No worries!

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        With a Business account, GDrive is $20/month per 5TB… which they just recently updated from $20/month per 1000TB (it used to be $15/month per unlimited TB, then people abused it to store over 2000TB and stuff like that).

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          Sounds like they know most people will never use very much, so they are counting on the lightweight users to subsidize the heavy users.

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            I blame LTT for giving people ideas: https://youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg

            He got a few million views on the video, everyone got capped.

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