A lot of the big streamers on Twitch have stifling contracts. Some allow you to simucast to other platforms, but when you are doing things like your bounties, you can't stream that to another platform. So you gotta shut down your stream on YouTube. Same with not allowing your reward chimes (like the default noises for bits, subs, etc) to play on other platforms (in some contracts), or have your Twitch chat feed with it's proprietary emotes appear on screen on other platforms, so rather than deal with a complicated filter/split cast a lot of them just do the old live on Twitch, upload VOD later to other platform. The rules are just convoluted, especially as it is not standardized across all contracts/partnerships. It's intentionally petty.
Is there any reason why a streamer would use a single platform exclusively?
If I streamed, I'd target all available platforms simultaneously. That way, I'd get more exposure and damage mitigation if I got banned somewhere.
I don't get why there are "twitch" streamers instead of everyone being a universal streamer. Is it laziness or what?
i don't know if they still do it, but exclusivity deals were a thing.
Even then, those would be an insignificant minority.
all the top talent definitely had them at one point.
I wasn't talking about the 1% of streamers, but all the rest instead. Why are they exclusive?
A lot of the big streamers on Twitch have stifling contracts. Some allow you to simucast to other platforms, but when you are doing things like your bounties, you can't stream that to another platform. So you gotta shut down your stream on YouTube. Same with not allowing your reward chimes (like the default noises for bits, subs, etc) to play on other platforms (in some contracts), or have your Twitch chat feed with it's proprietary emotes appear on screen on other platforms, so rather than deal with a complicated filter/split cast a lot of them just do the old live on Twitch, upload VOD later to other platform. The rules are just convoluted, especially as it is not standardized across all contracts/partnerships. It's intentionally petty.