I almost agree... And then I remember... (Destiny)

by Earendil, Thursday, September 24, 2015, 21:23 (3587 days ago) @ dogcow

And then I remember Golf... and Poker... and any other thing that I find ridiculously boring to watch (reality TV...), and suddenly I understand Twitch. Then there are events I *DO* like watching, and it still seems ridiculous to me that advertising is worth that much, and that participants get paid that much. Suddenly having a twitch stream with an insignificant fraction of the world's population watching them, and getting paid for it, isn't so surprising.

What's perhaps more surprising to me is that the advertising business has become granular enough that ads and ad revenue can get to viewer and participant on these much smaller scales. But it certainly makes more sense to me than blasting a Ford ad to anyone that is watching Football.