With Twitch now allowing ANY streamer to use Affiliate perks aside from ads, is there any reason for a small streamer to ever want to be affiliate?
If all affiliate gives is ads, why would a small streamer EVER want to become an affiliate? As a small streamer myself (20 average), I genetate about $2 per 4 hour stream with ads set to the lowest possible amount (3 mins every hour).
I would rather lose out on that $2 if that meant people wouldnt quit watching when an ad hit. Some claim this does not happen but it certainly does.
So whats the point of being an affiliate now...? It is genuinely harder to retain viewers for a long period of time when ads are involved, and as a small streamer they do not benefit you at all.