The world’s most popular YouTuber seems to have increased his subscriber numbers a lot lately. We are talking about the guy known as PewDiePie – which is in the latest digital currency news for joining the blockchain-based live streaming platform DLive.
The 29-year old Swedish YouTuber with a real name Felix Kjellberg, has recently signed an “exclusive” live streaming deal with the platform DLive. According to the official announcement, PewDiePie’s YouTube channel has 93.7 million subscribers at press time and his most recent video is racking up 4 million views in less than 24 hours.
From April 14, PewDiePie will stream directly on a weekly basis on the platform and with a decentralized community using the Lino blockchain, according to the announcement. On his official DLive channel, PewDiePie also said that he will support the content creators on the platform and will donate up to $50,000 to a maximum of 100 creators.
As online sources say, the YouTube star is the nine biggest earner on the platform. His estimated earnings in 2018 were $15.5 million, while a seven-year-old toy review is topping the list with $22 million in earnings.
The co-founder of the Lino Network Wilson Wei commented the news, stating:
“DLive is a place where instead of competing against each other, it benefits creators to support one another. With no platform cuts, we incentivize everyone to create the highest quality content for viewers.”
Lino has managed to raise $20 million in February 2018 in order to build a “YouTube on the blockchain” in a private token sale led by ZhenFund.
Wei claimed at the time that content creators could gather three-to-five times the profits they make on YouTube or its competitor, the Amazon-owned live streaming video platform Twitch.
“I’m excited to start live streaming again regularly! DLive is great for me because I’m treated like a real partner, just like all of the other streamers on DLive’s unique platform,” PewDiePie commented, stating his excitement about the upcoming collaboration.
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