> There are credible people out there insisting that Kick is losing money and only exists to funnel new customers to Stake's online gambling services.
This is trivial to determine without even needing to defer to credible people: Its entire business model outside of funneling people into gambling addiction is taking a 5% split of subscription revenue. This while it is paying Amazon for the actual (expensive) streaming tech[1], in a market that's notoriously hard to be profitable in for companies taking both a larger cut and running ads.