china has become the largest marketplace for live streaming with a large number of users being able to make lucrative careers from it. a large number of streamers are able to make $10,000-$100,000 a month without having to be a big name on the internet. this is due to the large population and the ubiquity of smartphones where many chinese citizens prefer to consume their entertainment. the live streaming market grew 180% in 2016 and has grown even more since then. one main difference to the chinese live streaming market is that many of the sites where users stream are all chinese sites mainly due to the strict internet rules in the country and the difficulty of cooperating with the chinese communist party. regardless of this, the chinese market has become a lucrative one with many agencies signing many streamers to contracts and many of them averaging 100,000 viewers per stream. many will often make $29,000 per month just by partnering with an agency.