so i was told by some of my diamond friends that know popular streamers on twitch...
income is based mainly on these four factors:
Ads: you make roughly $1.50/h for every 500 viewers, that's roughly 4 ads an hour assuming you play 2 x 30 min games
Sponsors: you get free merchandise from companies; (twitch, razer, logitech, ibuypower, lolskins etc) or you can monetary income by actually placing their brand logo in game with league overlay and direct users to their websites during queue times
Donations: these average but if you're gripex you can get a $1000
donation
Subscribers/followers: $2.50 per subscriber
reported speculated earnings per month: (streaming 3 times a week for 5-6 hours each day)
doublelift: $20,000
theoddone: $25,000
boxbox (aka flosd): $12,000-$15,000
nightblue3: $20,000
trick2g: $18,000
hiimgosu: $15,000
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