Summary
- Kick streamers earn by the hour: $10 with 50 viewers, $100 with 1,000 viewers. Adin Ross made $27k in 5 hours.
- Sam Frank made $80,000 with 3,500 viewers, no subs. Kick’s payout model appeals to creators.
- Viewers on Kick may soon earn money for watching streams. Unclear details; potential to pressure Twitch.
Popular streamer Adin Ross just shared the details on how much money he’s making streaming on Kick, Twitch’s big rival, showing off the huge numbers he earns from just one session. Kick entered the livestreaming world in late 2022 and quickly grew, signing top talent, including some of Twitch’s biggest names, and establishing itself as a serious contender.
Twitch has stayed the leader in livestreaming for years, while other challengers like Mixer and Facebook Gaming couldn’t last. Kick, though, went against what many expected after early predictions said it’d fail fast. The platform built its plan around two key things: less strict content moderation than Twitch and better payouts for streamers. Kick also signed several high-profile content creators with lucrative contracts to pull in viewers and grow quickly. Adin Ross was one of the first big names to switch, joining Kick in February 2023.
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Adin Ross, who’s been with Kick for over two years, just broke down how much he’s earning on the platform during a recent stream. He explained that even without subscriptions, the Kick Partner Program keeps the cash coming, and any streamer can make solid earnings. Adin laid it out: 1,000 viewers means about $100 an hour, while 50 viewers nets around $10 an hour. To show what that looks like, he pointed to his April 1 stream, where he teamed up with xQc and Sneako for just under five hours and earned $27,169. Talking to new streamers, Adin said Kick makes growing fast and easy, adding, “I streamed for five hours and made 30 grand.”
Adin Ross Reveals Kick Earnings
Another Kick streamer, Sam Frank, recently shared her own numbers, saying she made $80,000 in her best month. She averaged 3,500 viewers, streaming nearly 15 hours a day for almost a month, and said, “Kick literally changed my life.” These figures show how much Kick is paying its creators, and not needing subscribers to earn stands out as a big advantage. That setup’s likely driving Kick’s rise, maybe even pushing Twitch to improve its own partner program.
Adin Ross also shared that Kick’s planning new features to let viewers earn money by watching streams. This isn’t the first time he’s mentioned these plans – back in October, he said Kick was developing a new currency to reward viewers for tuning in. The details are still unclear, like how much the currency’s worth, how often viewers can earn it, or what the cash-out limit will be, and there’s no word on when this program will launch either.