ShareThe world of online streaming has been buzzing with the news of high-profile streamers g lucrative contracts with Kick, a rival platform to Twitch.
These contracts have a unique twist: they include clauses that require the streamers to host gambling streams, a move that is currently stirring controversy and debate.
Nick "Nickmercs" Kolcheff recently announced that he would be hosting gambling streams on Kick as part of his contract after g a massive $10 million deal with the platform. The gambling streams are part of an additional contract with Stake.com, whose co-founders part own Kick.
Similarly, Félix "xQc" Lengyel, another high-profile streamer, signed a two-year contract with Kick, worth approximately $70 million, with incentives that could push the total to about $100 million.
Lengyel has openly itted that he is paid to gamble high stakes on-stream, but he is also a self-confessed gambling addict.
The contracts signed by Kolcheff and Lengyel have sparked a broader conversation about the relationship between streaming platforms and gambling.
Kick, backed by the co-founders of the Stake gambling platform, has been investing heavily in attracting top streamers to its platform. This is during a year that has seen the Twitch platform clamp down hard on gambling streams as a whole. Poker was lucky to escape unscathed.