YouTube
| YouTube | |
|---|---|
| Field | Video and livestreaming |
| Origin | |
| Related | Twitch; Kick; Rumble |
YouTube is the video site owned by Google. Reuters, writing in 2014 about Amazon's purchase of Twitch, called YouTube the largest video website and identified Google as the owner.[1] People use it for uploads and for live broadcasts. A subscriber count on a channel is a stock of subscriptions. It is not the number of people watching a livestream at one moment.
The BBC reported in June 2023 that YouTube was letting creators keep 70 percent of subscription revenue, against 50 percent on Twitch and 95 percent on Kick.[2] That is the rate card the BBC printed. It is not a channel's income.
Live shows that also sit here[edit]
Several political livestreams use YouTube beside another site, or used it until YouTube cut off the money.
- Steven Crowder's Louder with Crowder is on YouTube and on Rumble. YouTube suspended his ad revenue in June 2019.[3]
- Russell Brand built a large YouTube subscription list and also posts on Rumble. YouTube suspended his ad revenue in September 2023.[4]
- Tim Pool's audience, as The New York Times described it in October 2025, sat between YouTube and X.[5]
- xQc has broadcast on YouTube's competitors, Twitch and Kick, under a Kick contract reported in 2023.[2]
YouTube has also carried a full episode that a host's own site did not match. The Atlantic reported that a 2025 interview of Nick Fuentes on The Tucker Carlson Show drew more than 4 million views on YouTube, and that Fuentes's own Rumble videos typically did not reach a tenth of that.[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Amazon in talks to buy live-streaming game site Twitch. Reuters. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Andrew Rogers. What is Kick, the streaming platform that's signed up xQc?. BBC News. 29 June 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
- ↑ YouTube reversal bans Holocaust hoaxers, stops pay for borderline creators. Reuters. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
- ↑ YouTube suspends Russell Brand from advert income. BBC News. 19 September 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
- ↑ Erik Wemple. Pentagon Announces 'Next Generation' Press Corps. The New York Times. 22 October 2025. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
- ↑ Ali Breland. The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling. The Atlantic. 31 October 2025. Retrieved 1 October 2026.