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Facebook Gaming creators will receive 100% of the revenue generated through desktop subscription until 2023

Facebook Gaming creators will receive 100% of the revenue generated through desktop subscription until 2023

As we all know, Facebook has been working hard to bring streamers and content creators from Twitch and YouTube over to their own platform, Facebook Gaming.

To attract the attention of more creators, especially smaller ones, Facebook Gaming has waived all the revenue share from subscriptions until 2023. Josh Maresca, Facebook Gaming partnerships manager made the announcement via Twitter, yesterday.

Yes, you read it right. This means creators will receive 100% of the subscription revenue generated from subscription purchases on desktop.

Mark Zuckerburg, Co-founder & CEO of Facebook announced that paid online events, fan subscriptions, badges, and upcoming independent news products will be free for creators until 2023. He also mentioned that eventually in 2023 or ahead, when they will introduce a revenue share, it will be less than 30% that Apple and others take.


The problem:

Now although this news is pretty big and has caught the attention of several creators on Twitch & YouTube, many are still unlikely to make the switch as there’s a lot of factors involved.

Firstly, as per reports over 80% of the users access Facebook through mobile devices only, and as Facebook is waiving revenue share for only those purchases that are made on the desktop platform. This leaves the creators with a very small audience out of which they can earn the full revenue share. (Thanks: Kotaku.com)

Now money might not be as important to everyone, and that is a reason many are still willing to stick to Twitch or YouTube. Despite these two platforms being an ocean of streamers, the viewer base is also substantially large on Twitch & YouTube as compared to Facebook Gaming.

Many are concerned about the future of the platform as we’ve quite recently seen the example of Mixer’s failure as a streaming platform. Also, creators are concerned about their data privacy and of their fans as well. The general emotion is that Twitch creators, even the partnered ones, are tagging Twitch and Twitch support on Twitter, asking them to make some similar moves to help smaller Twitch creators.


Still, despite all above mentioned points, the change made by Facebook Gaming is pretty lucrative. This change will definitely benefit the PC gamers and PC content creators more than creators from other platforms such as mobile, consoles, etc. But, is it worth the switch? We’ll let the creators decide.

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