Kick Partner Program: Requirements, the 30-Day Window and What Kick Measures
Kick publishes its numbers. What it publishes less loudly is that they are measured over a rolling 30 days, and that one of them does most of the filtering.
The Kick Partner Program is Kick's top monetization tier for streamers. To be eligible to apply, Kick's help center asks for an average of 75 concurrent viewers, 30 hours streamed, 25 active subscriptions, 250 unique chatters and 3 VODs, all in the past 30 days, plus at least 250 followers, a verified channel and a completed profile.
Meeting the numbers makes you eligible, not accepted: Kick says partnership is reviewed on application. Before Partner, a lower step turns on paid subscriptions, which Kick's help center ties to 5 total hours streamed. And Kick's rules say that artificially manipulating statistics to meet any of these can get verification or partner status refused or removed.
Most of the Partner criteria are measured over the same rolling window, the past 30 days, and that detail changes how you should read them. A number you hit in March doesn't carry you in May. Streams age out of the window every day, so the requirements measure what your channel is doing now, not what it has ever done.
Of the criteria, one does most of the filtering. Thirty hours in thirty days is a schedule anyone can keep. Three VODs and a completed profile are paperwork. Two hundred and fifty followers comes with time. An average of 75 concurrent viewers is different: it is a time-weighted average across all of your streaming, so a single busy stream barely moves it, and every quiet hour pulls it down. It's an audience problem, not an effort problem, and it's the line most channels are waiting on.
It's also the same number that shapes the directory. Kick's category pages show live channels with their viewer counts, and a viewer browsing a category reads that number first. The live count is what Kick live viewers change during a broadcast, and it's exactly why Kick polices it: its help article on grounds for revoking partner status tells creators not to take part in any practice that artificially manipulates statistics, and not to join communities that inflate statistics to meet verification requirements.
What are the Kick Partner requirements?
From Kick's help center article on joining the program, updated in July 2026. All windows are the past 30 days:
- An average of at least 75 concurrent viewers.
- At least 30 hours streamed.
- At least 25 active subscriptions.
- At least 250 unique chatters.
- At least 3 VODs.
- At least 250 followers in total.
- A verified channel, a completed profile with social links and an About section, and compliance with Kick's Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, DMCA Policy and program terms.
How to become a Kick partner
Once your channel meets the criteria, you apply. Kick's help center describes an email application with your username, and it's explicit that meeting the requirements makes you eligible to apply, not guaranteed a place. Kick also runs a fast-track route for creators with established audiences on other platforms, reviewed separately through its partner page.
What unique chatters and active subscriptions measure
These two criteria are there to show that the audience is real and involved, not just present. Unique chatters counts distinct accounts that sent at least one message in your chat during the window, however many messages each sent, so 250 of them means a community that talks, not one loud regular. Active subscriptions counts subs that are live during the window, which is why a burst of subs that lapse before the month ends doesn't hold. Kick also names self-financed subscriptions, paying for subs to your own channel, as grounds for refusing partner status, so this criterion only counts when other people are paying.
What are the Kick affiliate requirements?
Kick's own pages don't use the word affiliate consistently. Its help article on how Kick streaming works describes the first monetization step as streaming at least 5 total hours, after which you can turn on paid subscriptions and keep 95% of subscription revenue. Many third-party guides call this step Kick Affiliate and list extra conditions such as a follower minimum, phone verification and two-factor authentication.
The safest reading: the entry step is low, cumulative and mostly about hours; check the monetization section of your creator dashboard for the exact conditions on your account. The 5 hours don't have to be in one stream, and they aren't subject to the 30-day window that governs Partner.
What are Kick monetization requirements, and what does each tier pay?
Kick's help center article on revenue split, updated in August 2026, sets the split for both tiers: creators keep 95% of subscription revenue and of tips sent in KICKs, and Kick keeps 5% as a processing fee. A subscription is a flat $5 a month, which leaves $4.75 with the creator. Verified streamers can choose weekly or monthly payouts; others are paid monthly, subject to minimum thresholds that vary by country.
Partners also earn through the partner program itself. Kick's partner page describes creators earning a share of platform revenue while streaming exclusively on Kick, and says that multistreaming to other platforms reduces that rate. If you stream to Kick and another platform at once, read the current partner terms before you apply. Kick vs Twitch compares the split with Twitch's.
How to get affiliate on Kick faster
There's no shortcut worth taking. The entry step is a few hours of streaming, so the practical advice is simply to stream on a regular schedule. How to stream on Kick covers the setup, including the encoder settings that don't carry over from Twitch.
Why average viewers is the hardest Kick requirement
Average concurrent viewers is weighted by time. If you stream for five hours with ten viewers and hold one twenty-minute stretch with two hundred during a raid, the average moves only slightly, because that stretch is a small share of the total. The 30-day window compounds it: extra hours with a small audience lower your average even as they help with the 30-hour requirement.
That makes the tactic that works counterintuitive. Streaming fewer, better-attended hours can raise the average more than streaming longer. Consistent times, a schedule your viewers can plan around and content that holds people once they arrive all push the average up. Raids and collaborations bring people in; only the stream keeps them.
What gets partner status refused or removed
Kick's help article on grounds for revoking or refusing verification or the partner program, updated in May 2026, lists practices to avoid: artificially manipulating statistics, joining communities that artificially inflate statistics to meet verification requirements, and self-financing an account through subscriptions to inflate channel statistics. Kick says failing to follow these can lead to verification or partner status being refused or removed, and that creators who lose status must wait 30 days before reapplying.
Where paid live viewers fit, and where they don't
Be precise about this, because the rules are. Kick live viewers put a larger number on the stream while you're live, which changes how the stream looks in a crowded category. They don't subscribe, chat or tip, so they add nothing to the 25-subscription or 250-chatter requirements, and they are not a way into the program: using them to reach the 75-viewer average is exactly the statistic manipulation Kick's revoke article describes. If you're working toward Partner, don't use them: the window is rolling, so there's no stretch of streaming that isn't being measured.
What the Partner criteria really describe is a channel with a steady room of real viewers, some of whom pay and talk. What is Kick streaming covers the platform's background, Twitch Affiliate requirements shows how Twitch measures the same idea, and the Kick catalogue is on the Kick services page.
Questions people ask about the Kick Partner Program
What is the Kick Partner Program?
Kick's top monetization tier for streamers. Partners keep 95% of sub and tip revenue and can earn a share of platform revenue, after meeting published criteria and being accepted on application.
What are the Kick Partner requirements?
In the past 30 days: an average of 75 concurrent viewers, 30 hours streamed, 25 active subs, 250 unique chatters and 3 VODs, plus 250 followers, a verified channel and a completed profile.
What are the Kick affiliate requirements?
Kick's help center ties the first monetization step to 5 total hours streamed. Third-party guides also cite a follower minimum and security checks, so confirm in your creator dashboard.
Does meeting the requirements guarantee Kick Partner?
No. Kick says meeting the criteria makes you eligible to apply; partnership is decided on review.
How much does Kick keep from a sub?
5%. Kick's help center says creators keep 95% of subscription and tip revenue, so a $5 sub leaves $4.75 with the creator.
Can you lose Kick Partner status?
Yes. Kick can refuse or remove status for artificially manipulating statistics or self-financing subs, among other violations, and requires a 30-day wait before reapplying.
Keep reading
- Kick live viewers — The live count is what a browsing viewer reads first and what Kick live viewers change; Kick's rules keep it out of the program's criteria.
- What is Kick streaming — Where Kick came from, and why its split and policies look the way they do.
- How to stream on Kick — The setup, and the settings that don't carry over from Twitch.