Streamers make money through Twitch via multiple sources. 1  Subscriptions: $2.5 per subscription. 2  Your subscribers pay $4.99 to Twitch to subscribe to your channel. 3  Twitch will give $2.5 to you.  $3 for every 1,000 non-subscribers who watch a three-minute ad and haven't used an ad blocking plugin on their web browser to avoid the ad.