Donations for streamers: how to accept donations on stream

Sticker or a classic donation alert — you choose

Most services still sell a donation as a short alert. It pops up, gets read out by a synthetic voice and disappears. The viewer paid for five seconds of attention that half the audience missed, because they were watching the game and not the corner of the screen.

Chat lasts even less. At a thousand viewers a message scrolls away in a second and the streamer cannot physically read a tenth of it. The paradox is that the audience is loud while no single person has a way to be noticed.

StickerBomber ships both formats in one dashboard. A sticker — the viewer picks the exact spot in frame and how long it stays, and the whole audience sees it for precisely the time they paid for. A classic donation — a short message with the amount, plus its own GIF and sound for each tier, not just a bare voice line. Turn on whichever fits your channel, or both at once in Chaos mode.

How to accept donations on stream with stickers

1. 01

   Sign up as a streamer

   Register by email or through Twitch and Kick. Setup and onboarding are free — the service only earns on commission.

2. 02

   Build your sticker pack

   Upload channel memes, community faces, inside jokes. No ideas yet? Enable the base pack and it works immediately.

3. 03

   Set your price per second

   You decide what a second of screen time costs. A cheap sticker brings a steady stream of small payments, an expensive one fewer but larger ones.

4. 04

   Paste the overlay link into OBS

   One Browser Source is the entire integration. The OBS widgets page walks through it step by step.

5. 05

   Share your channel link with viewers

   Put the viewer link in your channel description, a pinned chat message and the panels under the player.

How viewers pay

The fewer steps between the impulse and the payment, the higher the conversion. So payment runs along two familiar paths, with no sign-up and no internal currency:

• Visa, Mastercard or Mir card through the WebPay provider — paid straight from the channel page.
• Telegram Stars — paid inside Telegram, which suits audiences that came from the streamer's Telegram channel.
• No coins, no points, no conversion tables: the viewer pays exactly the amount shown.

What the streamer keeps: commission by level

The commission depends on your channel level. The more active the channel, the lower the cut and the bigger the sticker pack:

There are no hidden fees. Per-payment maths, a live income calculator and the full withdrawal history live on the payout transparency page.

Withdrawing what you earn

Your balance accumulates in the streamer dashboard and withdrawals are requested in the same place. Every operation is logged, so you can always reconcile a payout against the stickers paid for in that period.

Monetizing a channel on Twitch, YouTube and Kick

The service is not tied to a platform: it runs as an overlay inside your broadcasting software, so it fits Twitch, YouTube, Kick and anywhere else you stream from OBS or Streamlabs.

Your existing donation service stays where it is — they do not conflict. And if you just want the classic format without a third-party service, StickerBomber has its own built-in donations too — with a custom GIF and sound per amount tier, switched on right in your channel settings.

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