DLive

Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.

Overview

DLive is a streaming platform that is shutting down. As of the date of our check, the dlive.tv home page consists of a single line: "DLive Service Discontinued".

The closure announcement was published in the platform's community on 7 April 2026. The wording is direct: "the DLive platform is ceasing operations. The top-up function, including subscriptions, has been disabled immediately". An update was later added to the same post: "All functions of the DLive mobile app have been officially disabled".

The platform is still worth examining: the community site is open for now, and it still holds the terms of the partner programme with exact thresholds. This is a rare case where you can read the full ladder of streamer tiers — and see how the closed service differed from Twitch. You can no longer register here or plan any income.

Who's here

Nobody any more: payments have stopped and the app has been disabled. There are no audience measurements of the platform's own — MAU, DAU, creator counts, country breakdowns — on its public pages, neither in the current materials nor in the community archive we looked through.

Legally the service belonged to a Singaporean company: the terms give the address DLive Entertainment Pte. Ltd, 3 Fraser Street #05-25 Duo Tower, Singapore 189352. In this guide's registers, however, the platform is assigned to the United States — by the actual centre of its audience rather than by where the company is registered.

The community interface could be switched to eight languages besides English: Turkish, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Polish and Chinese.

Getting started

You cannot start. Registration on dlive.tv is unavailable, and the help centre help.dlive.tv referenced by the terms did not respond at all at the time of our check.

For the record, the age requirements the platform imposed: the service is unavailable to anyone under 13, and in certain jurisdictions under 16; a user aged from 13 (or 16) to 18 needed permission from a legal guardian. The version of the terms we opened is dated 24 January 2025.

What those who still have an account should do: the platform asks you to withdraw your remaining coins, cancel any active subscriptions and download the content stored on DLive. Separately, for those who bought diamonds: a one-off opportunity to exchange them for coins via the "Redeem" button in the wallet in the web version. The deadline in the announcement is imprecise — "until April", with no date.

What you can publish

Publishing is impossible. Before the closure the platform supported live broadcasts and video uploads, and uploading clips and replaying past broadcasts were not a general feature but a tier privilege: video upload and replays of past broadcasts appeared only for Verified Partners.

Storage of recordings also depended on status: 14 days for Affiliate, 25 days for Verified Partner, 45 days for Global Partner, and storing recordings had to be switched on in the streamer dashboard settings.

The platform listed its prohibitions in its house rules: harmful, deceptive, abusive and unlawful material; child pornography; invasion of privacy; threats of violence; bullying and harassment; disclosure of other people's personal data; spam; incitement to suicide and self-harm; hate speech on the grounds of race, ethnic origin, religion, health condition, disability, age, orientation and gender. The same document explicitly forbade abuse of the rewards system and artificially inflating likes, followers and reposts.

How to grow

There is no growth: the platform is closed. The mechanics it described itself were built not on an algorithm but on statuses and mutual exposure. All three tiers required "hosting" five unique channels — that is, broadcasting someone else's stream on your own channel; for Global Partners the threshold for keeping the status rose to ten unique channels.

There is no description of a recommendation algorithm or of built-in channel analytics on the platform's public pages.

Path to monetization

This is the most substantial part of the DLive archive: the platform's share is named as a number, which is rare.

The platform stated its difference like this: "DLive takes 35% of all transactions on the platform, whether a recurring subscription or a one-off gift, against roughly 50% at traditional platforms". And, verbatim: "65% of every subscription and gift in diamonds goes straight into your wallet, 35% goes to DLive for long-term development".

The currency scheme had two stages: a diamond is an internal currency that can be used only inside DLive for donations to creators and cannot be transferred outside the platform; diamonds received by a creator were automatically converted into coins, and it was coins that were paid out under the service's terms. The platform tied rewards to blockchain: the rules say that the service "gives creators the ability to receive rewards from viewers and from the TRON blockchain".

Partner programme thresholds

Three steps with exact requirements (the Verified Partner terms):

The status had to be maintained. Verified Partners were reviewed every two months for a broadcasting history and for hosting 5 unique channels; Global Partners every two months under a "two out of three" rule: keep 150 subscriptions, 24 days of broadcasting or 48 hours of broadcasting, plus hosting 10 unique channels.

What the statuses gave beyond a badge: Affiliate — chat restricted to subscribers and followers, a designed channel banner, 8 emotes and 8 stickers for subscribers; Verified Partner — plus 12 emotes, 12 stickers, 20 channel stickers and 50% faster filling of the "chest"; Global Partner — plus 20 emotes, 20 stickers, a one-off bonus of 10 "supercars" and twice as fast filling of the "chest".

Applications were made by the streamer: from 1 July 2019 you could apply directly in the Partner Center if the requirements were met. One more entry condition was discipline: the account had to have no community guideline violations in the past three months. The platform promised to review the requirements themselves every six months.

Tools and automation

There is no official developer documentation on the platform's available pages: there was no developer section in the community navigation, and the help centre does not respond. There is nothing left to connect scheduling and analytics services to — the broadcasts have stopped.

The only "tooling" programme the platform described was volunteer moderation: DLive Guardian, an unpaid voluntary position with duties covering the curation of new streamers, teaching users and moderating the platform's Discord.

Limits and rules

The main thing. The service is discontinued; top-ups and subscriptions were disabled immediately, and the mobile app has been disabled entirely.
Age. No younger than 13, in certain jurisdictions no younger than 16; from 13 to 18 with a legal guardian's permission.
Disputes. The terms contain a highlighted warning that disputes are resolved by mandatory individual arbitration rather than in court.
The platform's right to remove. The rules explicitly state that the service reserves the right to remove a user or material at its own discretion — regardless of whether they breach the rules or the terms.
Fake metrics. Explicitly forbidden are manipulating the service and artificial means of gaining likes, followers and reposts.

Who it's for

Nobody: it is impossible to work on the platform. If you still have an account with a balance, the only sensible action is to carry out the steps the platform listed for withdrawing coins and downloading recordings through the web version while the site is still open.

The archive of DLive's terms is useful for something else — as a reference point when comparing platforms. A 35% share and a requirement of 15 hours of broadcasting across 15 calendar days set a scale against which the terms of working services can be measured.

Verified data

The checked data this deep dive rests on.

About the platform

the platform describes itself like this: "Official notice that DLive has ceased operations. Visit this page for service status and contact information."

Self-description: this is the platform's claim about itself, not an independent assessment

source, checked 2026-07-28

Languages

the interface language of the home page: en

The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang