Amongst its ongoing state of war with crypto, video giant YouTube has signed a new deal with one of the world's biggest popular YouTubers. PewDiePie, the top-subscribed independent video maker on YouTube, now has to go out blockchain video platform Dlive to stream exclusively on YouTube.

YouTube officially announced the news on May four, with PewDiePie claiming that the agreement was a "natural fit."

In April 2022, PewDiePie had signed a partnership with blockchain-based content sharing platform Dlive. PewDiePie, whose existent proper name is Felix Kjellberg, said that he decided to stream via DLive because he was treated "like a existent partner," noting that Dlive has zero advantage cuts.

Since so, PewDiePie'southward DLive channel has gained over 820,000 followers, which is less than 1% of his YouTube channel exposure. On May 5, PewDiePie's YouTube channel hit its 10-twelvemonth ceremony, amassing more 25 billion total views and 104 million subscribers.

PewDiePie outlined that the decision was driven by his alive streaming focus in 2022:

"YouTube has been my home for over a decade now and live streaming on the platform feels similar a natural fit as I continue to look for new ways to create content and collaborate with fans worldwide [...] Alive streaming is something I'1000 focusing a lot on in 2022 and beyond, so to be able to partner with YouTube and be at the forefront of new product features is special and exciting for the future."

Cointelegraph reached out to Dlive and PewDiePie for additional queries and will update if we hear back.

PewDiePie leaves DLive after the platform decided to move to Tron

Originally built on the Lino blockchain, DLive reportedly agreed to migrate to the Tron blockchain in late 2022. On Dec. thirty, major peer-to-peer file-sharing behemothic BitTorrent appear that DLive will exist joining its ecosystem. At the fourth dimension, BitTorrent CEO Justin Sunday, who is too the founder of Tron, outlined that — following YouTube'south crypto-content ban — decentralized content platforms are the future.

On May five, Cointelegraph reported on a new decentralized social media project that aims to enable IOTA (MIOTA) node owners to run their ain social media sites or apps.