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CGB: "I'm retiring" -- CovertGoBlue talks about his (future) retirement, frustrations with Standard and 3-year rotation, and content creation plans (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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CovertGoBlue talks about his frustrations with the 3-year Standard rotation, and how difficult it has been lately to create Standard content.

Talks about his decaying Twitch audience and plans to move more content in YouTube. He mentions his distress in playing Arena in general, and how he doesn't necessarily want to play a different game mode in Arena.

He's will place more emphasis on Commander content. Optionally will make content elsewhere, something different or new that he is more interested in.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

(Disclosure, I didn't actually watch this video.)

This is the second streamer I've heard of moving from Twitch to YouTube recently. Did something happen at one or the other of those sites?

I watch a lot more on YouTube than I do on Twitch, primarily because I prefer to watch on my own schedule, and it seems like there's a perception that Twitch is for live streams and YouTube is for prerecorded stuff. But there's no reason it has to be like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

He mentions that his Twitch audience has not been growing, and in fact has been dropping off over the years. And the last 12 months in particular he said it's been dropping lower each month. I know Twitch is giving less $ for Twitch Prime soon but that doesn't really explain the drop off in viewers. In my opinion, as a big Twitch-watcher, I think it's their recent advertisement push that has people watching a lot less. It's very difficult, for instance, to channel hop because you're constantly hitting ads before you even see content. This definitely would make growing your audience more difficult.

I think he also just makes more money on Youtube. He said he just crossed the $1 million total revenue from Youtube line, which roughly puts him at ~$200k/year from YT revenue alone.