Twitch profile

Advertising, channel subscriptions and paid virtual support fund the platform.

Amazon.com, Inc.: USD 716.92 billion revenue in the year ended 2025-12-31. Net income: USD 77.67 billion. Group/company figures.

10.83% net margin for the year ended 2025-12-31: reported net income divided by revenue.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), 2026-10-16 snapshot: USD 250.00 per share. Market capitalisation: USD 2.70T.

Subscriptions, ads and virtual support monetise both viewing time and the relationship between a creator and a regular audience.

• JP

  Jeffrey P. Bezos

  Amazon’s founder, identified in the proxy as a major individual beneficial shareholder.

  Equity percentage

  8.8%

  Disclosure as of

  24 February 2026

  Dated beneficial ownership, not a live position.

  Sources (1)

  • Amazon.com, Inc. — proxy ownership tablePrimary regulatory filing · accessed 18 October 2026
• B

  BlackRock

  An investment-management group reporting voting or investment authority over shares held through managed portfolios. The position is not all the manager’s own economic wealth.

  Equity percentage

  5.9%

  Disclosure as of

  24 February 2026

  Underlying position date

  31 December 2023

  The proxy cites a December 2023 underlying position.

  Sources (1)

  • Amazon.com, Inc. — proxy ownership tablePrimary regulatory filing · accessed 18 October 2026

Twitch uses recommendation and moderation technology to organise live content. Streamers also build their own bots, overlays and AI experiments around the broadcast.

Twitch is part of Amazon. Platform systems and a streamer’s third-party bot are separate layers of the experience.

Twitch processes account details, viewing and interaction activity, broadcasts and technical data. Its August 2026 notice includes advertising and development of machine-learning and generative-AI services. Public chat or broadcasts should not be treated like private messages.

Twitch’s safety team handles platform rules; streamers and channel moderators manage local chat culture, supported by tools such as AutoMod.

Choose followed channels and notification settings, hide unwanted recommendations and notice when you are watching for the Drop rather than the stream.

15/25 points

Live access and community are the benefit; immediate broadcasting and chat also mean content is not checked in advance for factual accuracy. Twitch publishes privacy choices and account-deletion routes, but these do not control what viewers copy from a public stream.

10/25 points

Twitch processes account details, viewing and interaction activity, broadcasts and technical data. Its August 2026 notice includes advertising and development of machine-learning and generative-AI services. Public chat or broadcasts should not be treated like private messages.

10/25 points

A live chat can be immediate and engaging without being a reliable account of events.

15/25 points

Choose followed channels and notification settings, hide unwanted recommendations and notice when you are watching for the Drop rather than the stream.

Comparison priority: live participation versus watching a recording on your own schedule. Drops and badges add value only if you wanted the viewing time itself.

Channel Points, Drops and watch-streak bonuses reward time spent returning to participating streams. A reward can depend on watching long enough or meeting a campaign requirement.

Go-live notifications, followed-channel updates and scheduled events make a familiar streamer an appointment.

Following a channel keeps it easy to find. Raids move an audience directly into another stream, carrying the viewing session forward.

Live chat, badges, gifted subscriptions and public recognition make participation visible. Spending or staying can become a way to belong.

A live moment, limited Drop campaign or growing watch streak gives absence a cost: miss the event, miss the reward or break the run.