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2022 Balloon donation rankings for BW streamers

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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1510 Posts
December 20 2022 06:16 GMT
#1
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2022 has been very eventful year for StarCraft streamer with revitalization of scene with tons of viewers with starcraft university content. Golden opportunity for tons of streamers.

Really shows how much of an opportunity past 2 years has been for StarCraft streamers in Korea, with it overtaking league as #1 streamed game during the period but now it's over, who knows what will happen going forward.

all info publicly tracked and available on https://poong.today/

oxKnu
Profile Joined December 2017
1259 Posts
December 20 2022 07:06 GMT
#2
You have to subtract at least 40% from that. That's Afreeca's cut.

Pretty decent for all of these guys, although SK is quite expensive, so it's not a fortune as some might think.
A.Alm
Profile Joined September 2012
Sweden541 Posts
December 20 2022 07:12 GMT
#3
Is their main income through balloons, and is this income from 2022 alone?
Shinokuki
Profile Joined July 2013
United States923 Posts
December 20 2022 07:15 GMT
#4
On December 20 2022 16:06 oxKnu wrote:
You have to subtract at least 40% from that. That's Afreeca's cut.

Pretty decent for all of these guys, although SK is quite expensive, so it's not a fortune as some might think.


Nope. Partner bjs get 80% so only 20%. Britney gets advertisement (around ~300k) and youtube ads (around 200k). all in all his estimated income is around 1.1M ~ 1.5M
Life is just life
jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1510 Posts
December 20 2022 07:15 GMT
#5
On December 20 2022 16:12 A.Alm wrote:
Is their main income through balloons, and is this income from 2022 alone?


2022 alone and that just depends on each playerse
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8867 Posts
December 20 2022 14:04 GMT
#6
On December 20 2022 16:06 oxKnu wrote:
You have to subtract at least 40% from that. That's Afreeca's cut.

Pretty decent for all of these guys, although SK is quite expensive, so it's not a fortune as some might think.

i dont know what your benchmark is for living standards, but relative to my living costs, sk is not expensive at all.
and objectively if these guys are all making in the hundreds of thousands, they are all living like kings in korea.
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10036 Posts
December 20 2022 17:34 GMT
#7
dayum and here i am eating the anti inflation diet of champions, lentils and rice

btw how come there's no love for Soulkey? he just doesn't stream enough?
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate
LUCKY_NOOB
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Bulgaria1544 Posts
December 20 2022 17:40 GMT
#8
On December 21 2022 02:34 TT1 wrote:
dayum and here i am eating the anti inflation diet of champions, lentils and rice

btw how come there's no love for Soulkey? he just doesn't stream enough?


Hopefully didn't get scammed out of his balloons too...
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A.Alm
Profile Joined September 2012
Sweden541 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-12-20 18:44:22
December 20 2022 18:37 GMT
#9
On December 20 2022 16:15 jinjin5000 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2022 16:12 A.Alm wrote:
Is their main income through balloons, and is this income from 2022 alone?


2022 alone and that just depends on each playerse


Some of the people from that list have 30-100~ viewers and 100-200~ viewers on their afreeca stream vods. How are they making 200 000$ / year from donations alone?

For comparison, Bonyth has 1-2k viewers on his vods (currently 150 live viewers) and Artosis has 15~k viewers on his vods with avg 1600 viewers.

Many of the korean brood war streamers also seem to have quite basic living conditions, which doesn't make sense if they're making that money.
M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4267 Posts
December 20 2022 19:16 GMT
#10
these are some pretty crazy numbers..
Peeano
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Netherlands5614 Posts
December 20 2022 20:47 GMT
#11
It would be interesting to see the average viewer count of those streamers as well as include the top 3 female bw streamers of 2022. As symping is much more a thing with female streamers, I'm curious if that would show in the statistics of balloons vs viewers.
FBH #1!
ppp87
Profile Joined May 2016
Laos254 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-12-20 21:00:35
December 20 2022 21:00 GMT
#12
I think some people are donating to some streamers to build up a prizepool for tournaments between top players every day, am I right ?
jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1510 Posts
December 20 2022 21:24 GMT
#13
On December 21 2022 03:37 A.Alm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2022 16:15 jinjin5000 wrote:
On December 20 2022 16:12 A.Alm wrote:
Is their main income through balloons, and is this income from 2022 alone?


2022 alone and that just depends on each playerse


Some of the people from that list have 30-100~ viewers and 100-200~ viewers on their afreeca stream vods. How are they making 200 000$ / year from donations alone?

For comparison, Bonyth has 1-2k viewers on his vods (currently 150 live viewers) and Artosis has 15~k viewers on his vods with avg 1600 viewers.

Many of the korean brood war streamers also seem to have quite basic living conditions, which doesn't make sense if they're making that money.


Spon system and university system
outscar
Profile Joined September 2014
2832 Posts
December 20 2022 21:54 GMT
#14
Interesting to see GGaemo getting so much donations, guy was getting barely views before. That's what getting to ro16 ASL does to you, you rose to fame!
sunbeams are never made like me...
RJBTV
Profile Joined December 2022
194 Posts
December 21 2022 01:04 GMT
#15
On December 21 2022 03:37 A.Alm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2022 16:15 jinjin5000 wrote:
On December 20 2022 16:12 A.Alm wrote:
Is their main income through balloons, and is this income from 2022 alone?


2022 alone and that just depends on each playerse


Some of the people from that list have 30-100~ viewers and 100-200~ viewers on their afreeca stream vods. How are they making 200 000$ / year from donations alone?

For comparison, Bonyth has 1-2k viewers on his vods (currently 150 live viewers) and Artosis has 15~k viewers on his vods with avg 1600 viewers.

Many of the korean brood war streamers also seem to have quite basic living conditions, which doesn't make sense if they're making that money.


Koreans don't really watch vods much. Its mostly high level players who watch vods to learn from others.
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9047 Posts
December 21 2022 04:23 GMT
#16
Nice to see BW players sustaining themselves.
A.Alm
Profile Joined September 2012
Sweden541 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-12-21 09:53:55
December 21 2022 09:30 GMT
#17
On December 21 2022 10:04 RJBTV wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 21 2022 03:37 A.Alm wrote:
On December 20 2022 16:15 jinjin5000 wrote:
On December 20 2022 16:12 A.Alm wrote:
Is their main income through balloons, and is this income from 2022 alone?


2022 alone and that just depends on each playerse


Some of the people from that list have 30-100~ viewers and 100-200~ viewers on their afreeca stream vods. How are they making 200 000$ / year from donations alone?

For comparison, Bonyth has 1-2k viewers on his vods (currently 150 live viewers) and Artosis has 15~k viewers on his vods with avg 1600 viewers.

Many of the korean brood war streamers also seem to have quite basic living conditions, which doesn't make sense if they're making that money.


Koreans don't really watch vods much. Its mostly high level players who watch vods to learn from others.


I'm not saying the ratio between live/vod viewers are different, i'm saying they're both low for the amount of donation money. I hope they get a fair cut of the donation income, so BW will continue to strive.
oxKnu
Profile Joined December 2017
1259 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-12-21 11:34:42
December 21 2022 11:34 GMT
#18
On December 21 2022 06:00 ppp87 wrote:
I think some people are donating to some streamers to build up a prizepool for tournaments between top players every day, am I right ?


Yes, and the SC University system.

Although the top streamers do get their own donations (Britney, Rain etc) for a lot of Top BW players the money gets spread out through the proleague prize system. At least a decent part of it.

Pretty cool system, it helps out some of the lesser popular streamers that are good at the game get a slice of the pie.
TMNT
Profile Joined January 2021
3178 Posts
December 21 2022 12:07 GMT
#19
On December 21 2022 03:37 A.Alm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2022 16:15 jinjin5000 wrote:
On December 20 2022 16:12 A.Alm wrote:
Is their main income through balloons, and is this income from 2022 alone?


2022 alone and that just depends on each playerse


Some of the people from that list have 30-100~ viewers and 100-200~ viewers on their afreeca stream vods. How are they making 200 000$ / year from donations alone?

For comparison, Bonyth has 1-2k viewers on his vods (currently 150 live viewers) and Artosis has 15~k viewers on his vods with avg 1600 viewers.

Many of the korean brood war streamers also seem to have quite basic living conditions, which doesn't make sense if they're making that money.

I don't think any names on that list only have 30-100 viewers on their stream. Normally the least of them would have about hundreds of viewers. Maybe sometimes they'd have 30-100 viewers due to viewer migration to other streams for a specific event.

But the main reason is that Korean viewers have a much bigger wallet than foreign viewers. I mean, for the Proleague system, 8 players just casually gather almost the entire budget of a BSL season in 15 minures, EVERY DAY.
oxKnu
Profile Joined December 2017
1259 Posts
December 21 2022 13:37 GMT
#20
The numbers are inflated though.

For example for ProLeague prize-pools, usually what happens is that the losing team has to donate the gathered balloons to the winning team. I don't think they're subtracted from the initial balance.

Would lead to a flatter distribution, and less money in general.
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