{"id":71452,"date":"2019-10-05T03:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T10:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/ninja-left-twitch-because-his-brand-was-too-big-for-gaming\/"},"modified":"2019-10-05T03:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T10:10:27","slug":"ninja-left-twitch-because-his-brand-was-too-big-for-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/ninja-left-twitch-because-his-brand-was-too-big-for-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninja left Twitch because his brand was too big for gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins\u2019 surprising departure from Twitch<\/a> came after months of feeling like the company didn\u2019t respect his wishes and hindered his ability to grow outside of gaming. <\/p>\n

But Blevins\u2019 manager and wife, Jessica Blevins, told Business Insider<\/em><\/a> <\/em>that Tyler\u2019s decision to leave Twitch and move over to the Microsoft-owned streaming service Mixer in August wasn\u2019t just a financial one. Twitch\u2019s contract with Tyler as it pertained to outside brand deals was too restrictive, Blevins said. Twitch effectively was limiting Tyler\u2019s ability to grow as more than just a gaming personality on the platform, she argued. Since leaving Twitch, Tyler has scored major deals with companies like Adidas<\/a>, and has a small role in Ryan Reynolds\u2019 new movie, F…<\/em><\/p>\n

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JOHANNES EISELE\/AFP\/Getty Images Tyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins\u2019 surprising departure from Twitch came after months of feeling like the company didn\u2019t respect his wishes and hindered his ability to grow outside of gaming. But Blevins\u2019 manager and wife, Jessica Blevins, told Business Insider that Tyler\u2019s decision to leave Twitch and move over to the Microsoft-owned streaming service… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t