PewDiePie Picks DLive as Exclusive Live-Streaming Platform, Will Give Away up to $50,000 to Other Creators

PewDiePie, YouTube’s most popular individual creator, is promoting DLive, a live-streaming video service that promises to offer better economic terms for its creators than other major platforms.

PewDiePie says he will use DLive exclusively (for the next several months, anyway) to present weekly live-streams, and programmed his first stream on 14 of April at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, at dlive.tv/pewdiepie.

The DLive service doesn’t take a cut of the revenue generated by live-streaming creators through subscriptions or digital “gifts” and it pledges that it never will. That’s compared with other providers, which keeps 50% of channel subscription revenue. In addition, DLive generates credits to reward other participating live-streamers based on consumption of their content.

In his first DLive live-stream, PewDiePie will donate up to $50000 (in Lino Points, the platform’s currency) to other Dlive platform live-streamers as a way to encourage more uptake.

“DLive is a place where instead of competing against each other, it benefits creators to support one another,” said Wilson Wei, co-founder of Lino Network. 

“PewDiePie has always been a fierce advocate for the value that creators bring with their hard work, time and effort, and he believes in DLive’s vision.”