So to start off, no this is not a cheesy online advertisement that's too good to be true. This is an actual possibility for you or anyone who wishes to try. More recently I have been finding new ways to occupy my free time. A couple of my friends in the past have suggested I check out the website Twitch. The concept behind twitch is that any body with a webcam and a console that plays games can stream their own gaming adventures through the internet live in real time. Basically watching live television of people playing specific video games all over the world in real time. Ever since giving it a chance I can say that this a wonderful concept. It doesn't require money to watch the various channels offered on the site effectively making it basically a version of free television for gaming individuals. The thing about Twitch that led me to write this article is how during the watching of a specific Twitch streamers channel I quickly saw that there was tons of money being thrown around.
If you don't know what twitch is or how it works just head over to their website at twitch.tv and you'll become familiarized quite quickly. A major part of being a streamer on Twitch is that the people watching your stream can donate money to you in multiple ways. One way is subscribing to a channel which more or less gives the streamer $5 per subscriber, then users can also choose to donate whatever amount they want to streamers. This seems to be where the most money can be made for Twitch streamers as I saw as one streamers made over $30,000 in a couple hours from donations.
Needless to say I was amazed that such a thing was even possible and then immediately questioned the potential of how much money could actually be made.
An article published on a gaming website in August of last year touched on this exact topic. After doing some digging on a rather popular streamer they found that he made on average $60 an hour when he was streaming which earns him over $110,000 per year. The article goes on to say that basically anyone is capable of making this kind of money through streaming. I think I might've just found my new hobby..
