Twitch has added two more gambling sites to its list of prohibited sites - Blaze and Gamdom. This follows its policy change that it implemented last year.
The company is an interactive livestreaming service for content such as gaming, entertainment, sports, music and more.
Its motive for banning gambling sites is to ‘protect its community’ (from gambling-related harms), ‘address predatory behaviour’ and ‘make Twitch a safer place.’
After updating the policy – prohibiting streams of certain sites that include slots, roulette, or dice games – Twitch saw gambling viewership drop by 75%; meaning that its new policy is working.
Speaking on its policy update decreasing gambler viewership by 75%, a Twitch representative posted on Twitter: “This meant the change had an immediate impact, and that our community has been better protected from scams and related harms.
The company is an interactive livestreaming service for content such as gaming, entertainment, sports, music and more.
Its motive for banning gambling sites is to ‘protect its community’ (from gambling-related harms), ‘address predatory behaviour’ and ‘make Twitch a safer place.’
After updating the policy – prohibiting streams of certain sites that include slots, roulette, or dice games – Twitch saw gambling viewership drop by 75%; meaning that its new policy is working.
Speaking on its policy update decreasing gambler viewership by 75%, a Twitch representative posted on Twitter: “This meant the change had an immediate impact, and that our community has been better protected from scams and related harms.