- Twitch CEO Dan Clancy is touring the US in a van to satisfy prime streamers and listen to their issues.
- Clancy, a former NASA researcher, took over the CEO function in March from Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear.
- Clancy gained viral consideration earlier this 12 months for his impromptu livestream singing efficiency.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy is taking an uncommon strategy to strengthen the connection between the corporate’s management and its neighborhood of creators.
He is been driving across the nation in his van, personally assembly with the Amazon-owned streaming platform’s prime streamers, listening to their enter and issues, and generally even giving them his private cellphone quantity, Bloomberg reported.
Clancy, who was beforehand president of Twitch, took on the CEO function in March from the corporate’s cofounder Emmett Shear, who stepped right down to give attention to elevating his new child son. He is acquired some criticism prior to now over sure monetization modifications on Twitch that went into impact when he was president, however his new technique has him leaning into making interpersonal connections with those that usher in probably the most viewers to the platform.
Whereas touring in his van, Clancy has met with streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, one of many most-viewed skilled avid gamers on the platform, and his spouse, Bloomberg reported, together with rapper T-Ache and conservationist streamer Maya Higa. Higa beforehand raised over $500,000 in a single on-line public sale to fund her animal sanctuary with assist from different large streamers.
“He requested loads of questions on the way it works, and the way we use Twitch,” Higa advised Bloomberg. “It seems like he desires to know everyone as an individual, not simply what their content material is.”
Clancy has additionally given out his private cellphone quantity to a number of large names on the platform to allow them to give him enter or air their grievances with him instantly, Bloomberg reported.
Twitch didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.
Clancy went viral earlier this 12 months after giving an impromptu singing efficiency in a Twitch livestream. Going by DJClancy on the platform, he performed the piano and sang John Denver’s “Take Me Dwelling, Nation Roads” after a consumer requested it within the stream’s chat to about 70 viewers.
As DJClancy, he was lately accepted into Twitch’s accomplice program after he was beforehand denied for not having sufficient viewers — he posted about each his preliminary rejection and later acceptance on X, previously Twitter. And he mentioned that he wrote a track for the event.
