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The layer of talent management is a brilliant niche offering streamers services like event management, sponsorship negations, channel staffing, PR, career management, legal and finance.<\/p>\n
This is a true recognition of the massive variety of streamers representing an actual legitimate career path and free channel of expression.\u00a0 An interesting detailed article appeared in The New Yorker this week featuring Online Performers Group…….Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n According to Twitch.TV FAQs there are 17,000 Partners globally, so this is still very much something the Marketing people have not figured out how to truly monetise.<\/p>\n Seems to me the market is still trying to figure out the ‘Path of a Streamer’ but when a free-flowing arena gets formalised the community just morphs into something else.<\/p>\n Remember when you could say anything on mainstream social media channels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A top-down look at Game Streaming is fascinating. Why watch streamers anyway?\u00a0 Well, as a veteran gamer it\u2019s always good to watch gamers do things I don\u2019t have the time or talent to do.\u00a0 Right now, my PS4 is off-line and boxed up so naturally, I\u2019ll just watch my favourite streamers. The layer of talent … <\/p>\nI\u2019m guessing Streamer fall into \r\nthese broad categories\r\n\r\nSkill-based\r\nVariety\r\nCasual\r\nFull-time\r\nSponsored\r\nFan-based\r\nBroadcaster\r\nJournalist \r\n...the list goes on<\/pre>\n