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Kick (service)
Kick (also known as Kick.com) is a video livestreaming service. It is operated by Kick Streaming Pty Ltd and backed by online casino company Stake.com and streaming personality Trainwreckstv. Kick was founded in 2022 as a competitor to Twitch, with a focus on looser moderation, higher revenue shares for streamers, and the inclusion of online gambling content which has been banned from other platforms. In 2023, Kick made multiple high-profile deals with streamers including Adin Ross and xQc. In Q3 2025, StreamCharts listed Kick.com as the fourth most watched livestreaming platform (among those monitored by the site) behind YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. Kick is also the sponsor of the Sauber Motorsport racing team in Formula One.
The Kick streaming platform had its inception in December 2022. To formalize its operations as a registered company in Australia, Kick Streaming Pty Ltd was established on 14 November of the same year. The sole shareholder of Kick Streaming is Easygo Entertainment Pty Ltd.
In a July 2023 interview, Craven said Kick is not currently profitable. However, the company tentatively plans to become profitable through advertising in one to three years. In March 2025, Kick partnered with data analytics firm Streams Charts to launch the Kick Road Campaign, aiming to support emerging streamers with fewer than 100 concurrent viewers. The initiative offers a $50,000 prize pool, including a $20,000 grand prize for the streamer with the highest watch time. At the same time, Kick Dev opened its public API and introduced a $100,000 developer fund to encourage the creation of third-party tools that enhance the streaming experience.
Compared to its competitor Twitch, Kick has looser policies against copyright infringement, hate speech, gambling content, harassment, and sexual content. However, its community guidelines prohibit those behaviors, as well as doxing and violent conduct. A representative of the website said in March 2023 that the platform was in the process of expanding its moderation efforts and that it did not tolerate hate speech or copyright violations.
A New York Times article stated that some of the website's content creators have committed what appeared to be crimes, such as sexual assault and trespassing while streaming. Other content creators of the platform have had sex while streaming, brandished sex toys at children and made sexual remarks toward underage girls. After being banned from Twitch for what the streaming platform called "unmoderated hateful conduct on chat" in 2023, streamer Adin Ross migrated to Kick, where he livestreamed the Super Bowl, scrolled through Pornhub and invited white nationalist Nick Fuentes on a livestream.
Kick has been called "a playground for people to be degenerate" by Kristin Gillespie, a co-founder of the New York-based Rights to Unmute, a not-for-profit organization that seeks to combat racism, bigotry, and harassment in gaming. She said in May 2024 that Kick has tolerated overly sexual and, sometimes, "predatory behavior" on the platform. Kick streamer Hikaru Nakamura said that the platform was undergoing the same initial journey as other social media websites, including Twitch, which he said was "very much the Wild West" when it started. Nakamura further said that it usually takes time for such websites to adapt.
Kick CEO Ed Craven stated in an interview that "people are realizing [that] the more controversial they are, the more shock factor involved in their content, the more viewers they get, and it can sometimes be a dangerous mix in that regard". He further said that Kick was in the process of adapting and deciding what type of content it should deem acceptable. In late 2023, Kick content creators Ice Poseidon and Sam Pepper were detained by Australian police after an incident involving a man they had met earlier that day. They attempted to film the man and a sex worker, both of whom had consented to be filmed, engaging in sexual activity in a hotel room. The situation escalated when the man initially prevented the sex worker from leaving. Following the incident, some streamers considered leaving the platform. In response to the incident and backlash, Kick updated its guidelines, adding a report button for rule-breaking content and introducing regulations on staff participation in "high-risk" livestreams. In late 2024, Kick implemented changes to its gambling policies to address concerns over harmful and exploitative content. Effective 1 February 2025, the platform permits gambling streams only from sites that use ID verification to ensure users are at least 18 years old.
On the night of 17–18 August 2025, Jean Pormanove, whose real name was Raphaël Graven, died while streaming. Pormanove had been a target of repeated harassment, humiliation, and physical abuse live on stream by his two partners, identified as "Naruto" (real name Owen Cenazandotti) and "Safine". His streams were known for showing him regularly being subjected to mistreatment, with footage of the abuse broadcast to viewers for months.
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Kick (service)
Kick (also known as Kick.com) is a video livestreaming service. It is operated by Kick Streaming Pty Ltd and backed by online casino company Stake.com and streaming personality Trainwreckstv. Kick was founded in 2022 as a competitor to Twitch, with a focus on looser moderation, higher revenue shares for streamers, and the inclusion of online gambling content which has been banned from other platforms. In 2023, Kick made multiple high-profile deals with streamers including Adin Ross and xQc. In Q3 2025, StreamCharts listed Kick.com as the fourth most watched livestreaming platform (among those monitored by the site) behind YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. Kick is also the sponsor of the Sauber Motorsport racing team in Formula One.
The Kick streaming platform had its inception in December 2022. To formalize its operations as a registered company in Australia, Kick Streaming Pty Ltd was established on 14 November of the same year. The sole shareholder of Kick Streaming is Easygo Entertainment Pty Ltd.
In a July 2023 interview, Craven said Kick is not currently profitable. However, the company tentatively plans to become profitable through advertising in one to three years. In March 2025, Kick partnered with data analytics firm Streams Charts to launch the Kick Road Campaign, aiming to support emerging streamers with fewer than 100 concurrent viewers. The initiative offers a $50,000 prize pool, including a $20,000 grand prize for the streamer with the highest watch time. At the same time, Kick Dev opened its public API and introduced a $100,000 developer fund to encourage the creation of third-party tools that enhance the streaming experience.
Compared to its competitor Twitch, Kick has looser policies against copyright infringement, hate speech, gambling content, harassment, and sexual content. However, its community guidelines prohibit those behaviors, as well as doxing and violent conduct. A representative of the website said in March 2023 that the platform was in the process of expanding its moderation efforts and that it did not tolerate hate speech or copyright violations.
A New York Times article stated that some of the website's content creators have committed what appeared to be crimes, such as sexual assault and trespassing while streaming. Other content creators of the platform have had sex while streaming, brandished sex toys at children and made sexual remarks toward underage girls. After being banned from Twitch for what the streaming platform called "unmoderated hateful conduct on chat" in 2023, streamer Adin Ross migrated to Kick, where he livestreamed the Super Bowl, scrolled through Pornhub and invited white nationalist Nick Fuentes on a livestream.
Kick has been called "a playground for people to be degenerate" by Kristin Gillespie, a co-founder of the New York-based Rights to Unmute, a not-for-profit organization that seeks to combat racism, bigotry, and harassment in gaming. She said in May 2024 that Kick has tolerated overly sexual and, sometimes, "predatory behavior" on the platform. Kick streamer Hikaru Nakamura said that the platform was undergoing the same initial journey as other social media websites, including Twitch, which he said was "very much the Wild West" when it started. Nakamura further said that it usually takes time for such websites to adapt.
Kick CEO Ed Craven stated in an interview that "people are realizing [that] the more controversial they are, the more shock factor involved in their content, the more viewers they get, and it can sometimes be a dangerous mix in that regard". He further said that Kick was in the process of adapting and deciding what type of content it should deem acceptable. In late 2023, Kick content creators Ice Poseidon and Sam Pepper were detained by Australian police after an incident involving a man they had met earlier that day. They attempted to film the man and a sex worker, both of whom had consented to be filmed, engaging in sexual activity in a hotel room. The situation escalated when the man initially prevented the sex worker from leaving. Following the incident, some streamers considered leaving the platform. In response to the incident and backlash, Kick updated its guidelines, adding a report button for rule-breaking content and introducing regulations on staff participation in "high-risk" livestreams. In late 2024, Kick implemented changes to its gambling policies to address concerns over harmful and exploitative content. Effective 1 February 2025, the platform permits gambling streams only from sites that use ID verification to ensure users are at least 18 years old.
On the night of 17–18 August 2025, Jean Pormanove, whose real name was Raphaël Graven, died while streaming. Pormanove had been a target of repeated harassment, humiliation, and physical abuse live on stream by his two partners, identified as "Naruto" (real name Owen Cenazandotti) and "Safine". His streams were known for showing him regularly being subjected to mistreatment, with footage of the abuse broadcast to viewers for months.