Prabhakaran Periyasamy logs in on his system on a daily basis to live stream his gaming commentary and connect with a community of over 122,000 subscribers. The 29-year-old gamer, who started his journey as a video game streamer back in September 2018 -- after originally being addicted to multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Dota 2, often plays titles such as Call of Duty Mobile, God of War 4, and PUBG Mobile. He at first used to live stream between 10:30am and 1pm and then leave for his regular job as a 3D artist at Amazon India. However, with the swift growth in the video streaming world, Periyasamy left his job through which he was earning around Rs. 45,000 a month and became a full-time streamer.
Periyasamy is one of the emerging live-streamers from India who are leveraging YouTube[1] to grow their presence in nascent space. He spends six to seven hours a day sitting in front of his PC to live stream his commentary and gameplays to the public.
While in just roughly first five months of starting his YouTube channel MidFail-YT[2], Periyasamy started earning between Rs. 12,000 and Rs. 15,000 a month, he's currently generating over Rs. 32,000 per month through his live streams. Sometimes, the earnings reach even around Rs. 60,000, the streamer tells Gadgets 360 in a telephonic conversation.
"It's like in one month I get more money, while in another month I get less money," states Periyasamy. "It depends on the engagement. So if I'm sick and not doing streaming for one week, I won't earn a single money for that week."
Although Periyasamy originally started streaming mainly on YouTube, he did try to multi-stream some videos on Twitch[3], which...