Creator Clash 2, a charity boxing event featuring lots of content creators, sadly failed to raise any money for the good causes it wanted to support. iDubbbz shares what went wrong.
In April of 2023, Creator Clash went to raise money for charity again. The boxing event with content creators from all corners of the internet, including streamers, voice actors and basically everything you could think of, took an unfortunate hit.
In a video released on July 3, co-organizer Ian Kane "iDubbbz" Jomha shared that Creator Clash didn't turn out to be the fun event it was supposed to be and failed to raise the money for the 14 charities, losing $250,000.
Even though more good-natured boxing fights took place with even more creators hitting each other for charity, the success of the first event with $1.3 million raised last year couldn't be repeated.
A bigger event equals more costs: broadcast, staff, expenses for housing creators and more. To top it all off, no measures were taken to prevent piracy.
After covering the expenses, there was no money left for the charities. According to iDubbbz, the event didn't even reach the break-even point, writing red numbers.
The piracy issue turned out to be the biggest problem. As a pay-per-view event, iDubbbz revealed that he thought having more creators would lead to a bigger audience and therefore more people paying to watch their favorite creators climb into the ring.
Piracy ain't good, kids. If you still don't want to pay for content, maybe a free-trial Amazon Prime membership is the way to go.
Still, with no measures taken, they had no way of preventing third parties streaming the event for people who didn't feel like paying, resulting in the big loss.
iDubbbz shared that he feels embarrassed for his mistake. Silver lining: he actually takes responsibility unlike other big YouTubers.
He also denied the rumors of the organizers pocketing the money for their own sake instead of donating it to charity.
In hopes of getting a few donations and save what can be saved, iDubbbz says he plans on uploading the whole event to YouTube. Maybe with that people will donate to cut the losses and support the charities, even months after the event.