Twitch CEO Daniel Clancy doubled down on the platform’s stance against promotion of unregulated gambling services in a May 31 interview.<\/p>
Clancy said that offshore unregulated services have a lack of transparency that imply companies can tweak odds however they want to benefit themselves.<\/p>
“There’s a reason that you [need] a VPN do to it from most major countries,” Daniel Clancy said in the interview with Twitch streamer Filian<\/a>. “The amount of money that was flowing where our creators were building the connections they formed on Twitch to drive people to these sites, it was a significant amount of money to a small number of creators and we didn’t think it was good for the community.”<\/p>
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In October 2022, Twitch banned streaming gambling<\/a> from unregulated websites and restricted the promotion of other gambling services following a strong rise in audience numbers that stirred controversy and led to high-profile streamers taking firm stances on the matter.<\/p>
Since then, gambling websites have found another Amazon-owned streaming platform to promote their services: Kick. Launched in March, the streaming platform startup features looser restrictions on gambling<\/a> and pretty much everything else as well. <\/p>
As a result, more and more streamers are switching to Kick so they can get more freedom on the matter. At the time of writing, Kick’s Slots & Casino category<\/a> tops the platform in terms of audience. <\/p>
It roughly matches the number of simultaneous viewers in Twitch’s Virtual Casino<\/a> category despite a being a significantly smaller site. Since Kick is a rather new platform, it’s likely those numbers are going to grow over time and surpass those of Twitch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
