YouTube signs exclusive contract with streamer and content creator Typical Gamer

Andre “Typical Gamer” Rebelo, one in every of YouTube’s greatest gaming stars, has signed an unique contractto proceed streaming on the platform. Rebelo announcedthe deal Thursday afternoon through a new video on his YouTube channel.

Within the video, Rebelo additionally broadcasts that he’ll be donating $10,000 to Additional Life. In partnership with the charitygroup, Rebelo additionally visits a fan born with a coronary heart defect. After the go to he talks about his rise to fame on YouTube and the way a lot its meant to him, earlier than saying that he’ll proceed to stream solely on YouTube Gaming.

Rebelo first began his YouTube channelagain in 2008 and has since risen to prominence with moviesthat includes video gameslike Minecraft, Purple Useless Redemption, and Grand Theft Auto 5. As streaming started to take off, Rebelo began increasing from simply posting movies to full YouTube livestreams. Over the previous few years, Rebelo’s streaming reputation has elevated exponentially with video gameslike Fortnite. Rebelo has over 9 million subscribers on YouTube, together with almost 850,000 followers on Twitter.

During the last a number of months, many content material creators have been signing offers unique offers as platforms attempt to lock up expertise. Whereas Rebelo has been on YouTube for many of his profession and can proceed to stream there because of this contract, different creators and streamers have opted to modify platforms just lately.

It started in August 2019 when Tyler “Ninja” Blevins moved from Twitch to Mixer, however continued with streamers shifting to a wide range of platforms together with Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter and Jack “Braveness” Dunlop to YouTube Gaming, or Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang to Fb Gaming. In the meantime, some Twitch streamers like Imane “Pokimane” Anys and Man “Dr Disrespect” Beahm have opted to remain on the platform because the streaming trade spreads out.