change log: july 12
• download clips straight from the mobile app. BANG.
• /host retired. welcome /raid.
• leaderboard now auto-scrolls.
• click and drag to resize chat.
• plus fresh global name colors. click the chat identity badge.
I see a lot of streamer data in my job at Kick. But data doesn’t catch everyone.
So, 50,000 Kicks for small and medium streamers. And I’m not picking who gets it. You’re going to help me 🙏.
Drop a channel in the replies. Yours or someone you rate. Tell me why. The names that keep coming up get the Kicks.
I read everything. Go.
I've had a fair bit of time in airports over the last week or so, and had a chance to reflect on our shipping velocity and something I'm incredibly proud of from all of our Teams working together, and the support that the community has shown. Sorry in advance for the emoji spam; got excited with what we're building.
First half of the year at KICK. Here's just part of what we shipped 👇
For viewers:
🏠 Fully personalised homepage; now with immersive full-page view
🔎 Personalised recs across Browse, Category & Following
🎮 KICK Levels + global badges + daily rewards
🎁 Drops; including KICKs in Rust
🎬 Cinematic view for the video player
✂️ Clips levelled up: 180s durations, /clip chat command, keyboard shortcut, one-tap downloads
💬 Chat threads, chat settings overhaul, chat leaderboard, scrollable chat
📲 Better clip & VOD sharing on socials
⭐ Follow & subscribe support, emote re-ordering
🚫 Subscribers see zero ads
💳 PayPal support and new currency and payment methods
For creators:
📱 Go Live officially launched - reducing the barriers for going live and making it easier than ever
📊 Streamer Analytics; more to come soon..
❤️🩹 Live stream health right in your dashboard
🛡️ Disconnect Protection — internet drops, stream survives
🙈 Hide view count option
🚀 Creator Fast Track Landing Page and streamlined process
💰 Ads Program Beta - and building the foundations to diversify revenue sources for our creators
Everywhere:
📺 Native app development on a number of new platforms
Rebuilt mobile player, tablet UI, smarter search & recommendations
🐛 Thousands of bug fixes, our crashes reducing by ~90%, faster site reducing latency for all actions.
That's H1. H2 makes this look slow...
As always reading every single email on [email protected]
For issues reach out to [email protected]
For the best partnership team in the world [email protected]
Can't wait for you all to see H2. As usual; constructive feedback is always welcomed 🙏
Con 40 años llevó a Argentina a jugar 120 minutos en en mano a mano mundialista. Enfrentó a su ídolo y estuvo absolutamente a la altura. No recibió goles por Uruguay ni España.
Cabo Verde se va de este Mundial por la puerta grande, respeto total.
In the ~last week KICK has delivered;
Fast track - thousands of applications manually reviewed by the Team and we're up to date. Our Team worked extremely hard to ensure we were able to reply to every person who applied as quickly as possible.
Daily Rewards - ensuring viewers are receiving benefits for hanging out with their favourite creators and their friends in the communities. Pretty excited where we can take this one.
(Today) Stream Analytics pt.2 - We've released stream overview for our creators that are verified with even more to come soon and I'm personally excited about this.
As a platform' it's part of our responsibility to build products that people can engage with audiences and be part of something together. But there is also an obligation to support our creators in their journey to monetisation - helping with an easy to use analytics feature, and then providing further information on what streams are performing, viewership details and more is just the start.
As always; hold us accountable - we have plenty more to ship and for every item shipped - we have 20 pretty cool ideas that are coming in from the community.
Keep em coming, and let me know what you think is the coolest release that we've done this year?