Caffeine
Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Caffeine is an American live-streaming platform that no longer operates. As of our check, caffeine.tv hosts no service at all — just a farewell page a few paragraphs long.
The company signed that text itself: "We've come to a point where we're still not quite profitable, so we've made the decision to sunset the service on June 26 while we figure out what's next". There is no year in that wording — the page gives only a day and a month; outside publications date the shutdown to 26 June 2024.
You cannot plan any work around this platform. The article below serves a different purpose: to keep you from spending time on a platform that survives only in outdated listicles, and to make clear exactly what shut down.
Who's here
Nobody: the service has stopped. The platform stated its own audience figures in its farewell text, and that is a claim about the past rather than a current measurement: "We built a world-class platform that grew to 61 million monthly users and 4 million daily". The same page mentions "200 sports partners across 17 sports categories".
Outside coverage of the shutdown gives somewhat different numbers: one outlet reports that at the time it stopped, the platform claimed more than 60 million monthly active users and more than 150 niche sports leagues and creators as partners. That is journalists relaying company statements, not an independent measurement.
Getting started
You can't. Sign-up is unavailable: the domain carries neither a login form nor app links — the page consists of a single farewell message.
Archived descriptions say that before the shutdown the service worked like an ordinary streaming platform, with registration optional for viewing (an encyclopedia reference article)); the official creator help centre no longer exists.
What you can publish
Nothing: publishing is impossible. Before the shutdown the content profile was sports and entertainment — an outside publication lists esports, video games, live events, niche sports leagues and sports creators. The community guidelines left public access along with the service.
How to grow
There are no promotion mechanics — there is nowhere to grow: the creator help pages went down along with the rest of the service.
Path to monetization
There is no monetization. The only thing that still holds value is the company's own admission of the models it tried: "We explored virtual gifts, subscriptions, pay-per-view and advertising business models — and every shade of grey in between".
The practical takeaway for this handbook: the platform kept cycling through ways to make money right up to the end and never made one of them sustainable — it closed precisely because it was not profitable, which it said outright.
Tools and automation
The platform has no official programming interface as of our check: the developer domain does not respond and no documentation exists. There is no point looking for scheduling or analytics tools that support Caffeine — there is nothing to connect to.
Limits and rules
There is one limit that matters: the service does not work. The legal documents — terms of service, community guidelines, privacy policy — were removed from the domain along with everything else; all that remains at caffeine.tv is the farewell text.
The company is registered in the United States and, according to outside coverage, raised almost 300 million US dollars from investors including Fox, Disney, Cox, Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock; in 2018, 21st Century Fox invested 100 million US dollars). For a creator this carries one practical meaning: large investments by themselves do not guarantee that a platform will survive until your first withdrawal.
Who it's for
Nobody. The platform is closed, accounts cannot be created, payouts are not made.
If you came across Caffeine in someone else's roundup of "platforms for streamers", treat that as a sign the roundup is at least two years out of date, and re-check everything else in it.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
Languages
the interface language of the home page: en
The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang
source, checked 2026-07-28
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