Ali Moiz addresses the Expanding the Stream conference in San Francisco.
Ali Moiz addresses the Expanding the Stream conference in San Francisco.
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How Streamlabs is helping livestreamers monetize their audience via tips

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Streamlabs is out to make the Leisure Economy, where people get paid to play games, into a reality. It does so by enabling viewers to leave tips for livestreamers that they like on platforms such as Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube.

Those tips can supplement advertising revenue, and they have become a big part of streamer income. Ali Moiz, CEO of Streamlabs, said that his company processed more than $275 million in tips since 2014, with $145 million expected this year. I talked to Moiz at the Streamlabs event this week in San Francisco, where Moiz announced that the company is creating an app store for developers who write applications on top of Streamlabs’ software, which provides a variety of functions for streamers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.