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Pokimane: Twitch streamer pays fortune - that's how expensive life as an Internet star is

2020-08-23T15:01:33.550Z


The most successful Twitch streamer surprisingly unpacks - Pokimane shares with her fans how expensive it is to be an Internet star. Her job costs her a fortune.


The most successful Twitch streamer surprisingly unpacks - Pokimane shares with her fans how expensive it is to be an Internet star. Her job costs her a fortune.

  • Pokimane talks about financial stress as a streamer *.
  • Twitch * streamer has several employees.
  • Maintenance and production costs are increasing for YouTubers and streamers .

Los Angeles, USA - In a new July 22nd interview with Twitch streamer Imane " Pokimane " Anys, the 24-year-old Internet star reveals the heavy financial burden of running one of the most popular streaming channels on the platform. This is the cost really behind life as a streamer .

Full nameImane Anys
Known asPokimane
birthdayMay 14, 1996
place of birthMorocco
Followers on Twitch5.3 million (as of August 2020)

Twitch: Pokimane reveals the cost of her streamer life in an interview

After Imane Anys , better known on the internet as Pokimane , has become one of the faces of the Twitch streaming platform in recent years , the Moroccan-Canadian personality has millions of followers on her YouTube , Instagram and social media accounts show. She is also one of the top streamers from 2019 *.

On July 22nd, the star sat down with YouTuber Graham Stephan to discuss what it takes to turn streaming into a business. Pokimane reveals what it costs to be an online entertainer - and surprises many of her fans.

The Twitch-Star from Los Angeles opened Stephan during their interviews and counted the number of employees it has set. “I've had editors for a long time, so only people I hire to edit my videos. Over the years it became a full-time editor. Then I even needed someone to manage my now larger number of editors, "admits the 24-year-old with a laugh.

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The interview with Pokimane explains who the streamer has to hire

© Graham Stephan

Pokimane also announced that she has hired someone who just looks after the business behind her Twitch channel l. I have hired a manager to whom I forward tasks and who communicates with the company and other companies. He mainly manages my day-to-day work life and my relationships with other companies. I don't have to answer every email. "

Twitch: Streamer and YouTuber Pokimane has several employees

In the interview , Pokimane also gives specific figures for their expenses . As the 24-year-old says in the video: “ Business expenses are by far what I spend most of my income on. Probably $ 10-20,000 a month just to be able to pay other people. "As if those expenses were n't enough, Pokimane laughed in the interview , adding," I forgot to mention, but I also now have a business manager who manages all of my finances, including paying everyone I mentioned . "

Still, fans don't have to worry about the 24-year-old's financial situation. After all, in addition to being the most successful woman on the planet on Twitch , Pokimane has more than five million subscribers on YouTube . The Internet star had previously revealed that she and her streamer colleagues collect around 10,000 US dollars per 3,000 subscribers on Twitch every month. Accordingly, Imane Anys would already have net income of around 30,000 US dollars a month from subs on Twitch alone. According to current estimates, Pokimane's net worth is currently at two to three million US dollars.

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She also adds in the interview that life as a streamer is not an everyday job and streaming on Twitch takes a lot of time and work. With all of the things going on behind the scenes, the Twitch star's interview gives viewers a deeper insight into just how much work it actually is to be an online entertainer. Especially if you 've considered emulating Pokimane and want to show what you can do with Fortnite * or Call of Duty Warzone * on Twitch . Meanwhile, the well-known rapper Logic gets a million dollar deal from Twitch *, even though he only streamed around six hours last year.

Twitch: High streaming costs from Pokimane are not an isolated case

But not only streamer Pokimane spends a small fortune managing her stream . Other streamers and YouTubers also have to pay a lot of money to keep their content as creative as possible. Another example of the high maintenance costs of an entertainer is the YouTuber Mr. Beast, who entertains millions of viewers on the video platform with his non-profit freebies and breathtaking challenges.

“If we look at our books, we're going to be spending about $ 3 million on videos next month . This will be my most expensive month so far, ”said Mr. Beast in an interview with Anthony Padilla.

Whether you as a top streamers and YouTubers now money for the production of its video output needs or for the wages of its employees to be a great personality on the Internet, no longer a job is more for just one person. Most of the time there is a whole team behind the successful streamer that supports the character. * ingame.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network

List of rubric lists: © Graham Stephan

Source: merkur

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