[Feature] Featured Clips
Featured Clips help you show up on new and existing Twitch discovery spaces in ways that best represent you and your community. We recently shared our plans (https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/07/08/everything-we-announced-at-twitchcon-paris/) to launch the upcoming mobile Discovery Feed. As we work towards building new onsite discovery tools like the Discovery Feed, we want to give you more control over which Clips are shown to viewers on Twitch with Featured Clips.
We're already working on improvements to Featured Clips, including:
- Allowing you to opt-in to automatically featuring Clips created by you or your editors.
- Giving Featured Clips access to Mods and other trusted members of your community.
- Adding the ability to feature Clips from the Clip creation flow, the Clip editor, and on mobile.
- Adding more Featured Clips analytics.
We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to improve this feature.
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Wibit commented
Please remove featured clips from game categories. Featured clips sections are fine for individual channels but make game categories completely unusable. Every streamer marks all their clips as featured to try and increase their discoverability in a game category and it ends up making the featured clips section bloated with dead clip with no toggle to remove them as a viewer.
If twitch is looking to save money on bandwidth, we need an option to disable/remove featured clips as a viewer. Currently to get to popular clips, viewers have to scroll past thousands of featured clips which all have thumbnails that waste bandwidth.
Please save us from this waste of bandwidth feature that no one asked for.
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drewcarrymore commented
I have no interest on seeing featured clips. When i go to a game's clip page i want to see popular clips, because if lots of people have viewed them they are probably more entertaining than some random 10 view clip that a streamer highlighted.
If this feature must be kept, add an option to disable it, or have only a couple of rows of featured clips before showing the popular clips.
Currently for popular games it just keeps showing more and more featured clips and never displays the popular clips. I have scrolled long enough for it to crash my browser before getting to popular clips.
Until this change is made the clips page is functionally useless.
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Biertje373 commented
I'll be honest, I don't like it. I think that it's a good idea that hasn't been implemented well. When going to a clip catagory you have to scroll down a lot (especially if it's a big game).
I wish that you could turn it on and off cliënt side. Because this makes creating (popular) clips kind of pointless if they're a nightmare to find. -
RoyalRepublican commented
I'm really frustrated with the recent changes to Twitch clips. It's become increasingly difficult to find clips of the specific streamers I'm interested in.
The decision to prioritize featured clips over sorting by views has made it challenging to discover popular content, as it feels like the platform is pushing a select group of streamers. It used to be so easy to stumble upon popular and entertaining clips, but now it seems like they're overshadowed by the content from only the featured streamers. This shift not only hinders my ability to find the content I enjoy but also takes away the excitement of stumbling upon the most popular and talked-about clips on the platform.
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drewcarrymore commented
This ruins clips. Now when i go to a game's page and view top clips of all time i only get garbage clips from no name streamers rather than the actual top clips of all time. If someone wants to feature clips on their own page then fine but it shouldn't favour them on the game's clip page.
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jag176 commented
Because of this "feature," I can longer find the most popular clips of game I'm interested in, only the featured ones. This makes using twitch to find clips pointless to me. Please allow the ability to turn off featured clips.
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arcanumtechnica commented
Let me provide better feedback. Imagine you are being targeted by the owner of the clip because a falling out happened. They can now feature it and track someone's account. They will always be tied to it because the clip can only be deleted/edited by someone with the editing priv.
PLEASE ALLOW THE ABILITY TO REMOVE YOUR NAME AS THE ONE THAT CLIPPED IT. ALLOW IT TO THEN DEFAULT TO THE CHANNEL OWNER, MODERATOR, AND/OR CLIP EDITOR.
I no longer wish to be associated with a team of streamers because they have spread misinformation about me, committed libel/slander against me, and stalked my statuses on Discord, etc. Due to their actions, aggression, passive aggression, and off platform behaviors like victim shaming, I am traumatized.
I tried to contact them directly but they are refusing to remove it. I do NOT consent to having my name associated with them in any way. I do not wish to affect their channel in any way. I just want to be distanced and made independent of them entirely.
I have blocked and banned these people but they will forever be able to track me/my username because of 2 clips I made of their channel when we were still civil. Not to mention my name is mentioned prominently in another clip and I do not consent to that either.
I am an affiliate and do not want to have to start over and regain affiliate status. I should not have to create a new account because someone bullied me out of it. That is unfair to my viewers, my community, and me the streamer!
In the meantime, what do you propose I do? I have not received any kind of response or acknowledgement of my very real issue and safety concern that has done nothing but cause me emotional distress.
Not mad just.... desperate at this point! I can't show it, but I am in tears writing this because I am powerless. PLEASE respond. Something. Anything. Help me. PS: No, the authorities cannot assist. No, I cannot afford a lawyer. I am going to be cyberbullied because I clipped a minute of content containing the cursed Pokemon Fusion of Jinx and Wailord. Internally screaming here!
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diggshs commented
please get rid of this
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FearfulEgg commented
Please give the option of removing this "feature". I've already unfollowed two streamers to get rid of the section. I will be ruthless with any other streamer that inflicts this "feature" on me. Once this "feature" has fixed then I'll follow them again.
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Rafferty3231 commented
Get rid of this.
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rxiv commented
Figured out how to get rid of the 'brilliant' featured clips section - just unfollowed everyone who had clips. Problem solved.
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Mepherion commented
Please allow unfeaturing clips from the Clip Viewing Surfaces since Mods do not have access to the channel's Clips Manager
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FieryAshes commented
I love this feature. I think it is amazing. I wish we had more than 20 featured clips sometimes, but this is wonderful and we are really excited for the new improvements you're already working on.
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DraleZero commented
acornz,
At the top right of "Clips of my Channel" check the filter is not "Recommended" and is "All"
Clips made on the fly without title, editing, and hitting publish (such as !clip commands, or simply pressing clip, etc) have never shown up for me under the Recommended filter. And its the default filter you'll have to change every time you go to the clips list.
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acornz commented
I love this feature, there's one thing that I'm having frustration over or that I can't figure out:
Can I not feature Clips I've Created? I often clip stuff of my channel on the fly and most of it doesn't show up in the Clips of My Channel.
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LinuxBrickie commented
Don't worry everyone, they've now moved it down below the live channels...only to repeat their mistake by putting the new stories feature in its place. You couldn't make it up.
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OllyRobz commented
Please, please consider not having Featured Clips Only be switched on by default when you go to a channel's clips page - by all means have featured clips at the top, but the filtering to ONLY see those by default is so unhelpful for discoverability.
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Xiel_Bladze commented
First off, all the profanity on here is sad. its a new feature, and its trying out its new legs. yes if you don't like it; say so, but you don't need to be so angry about it...
That said, I like the Idea of Featured Clips, but I feel like a very crucial step was missed: Interaction.
Twitch is all about interaction... that's why people come here. for the chat, for the emotes, for the point redemptions... clips are missing all of that.
I suggest you add a comment section, as well as a reaction option (utilizing a few basic twitch emotes, but also allowing followers/subscribers to use the channel's emotes that they have access to.)
Also, I believe we need to give a little more credit to the Clippers themselves. a place on our profiles to not only see our clips, but also to see the clips we've made for other channels would be great. (lets be honest, some people are better at capturing some great moments than others, and maybe we want to see what else THEY'VE clipped.)
And finally, in the vein of rewarding clippers and engagement, I feel like we should find a way to acknowledge clippers (like giving them a badge for having a clip of theirs that was featured on another channel have X number of views/reactions. so the badge can be upgraded based on the best clip they've clipped), and also maybe some channel points for people who watch, react, and/or comment on clips/highlights/VoDs.
I might even go as far as rewarding well received clippers with bits or something, spread a bit of that wealth.
(and for monetization (for you, the streamer AND the clipper) I'd suggest "Clip Display Ads" nothing that would interrupt the clip experience, but just enough banners here and there to make it worth it to everyone involved.)
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Elosacle commented
Please allow mobile users to hide this section altogether. I really only come to twitch to watch live streams, and having clips at the top not only gets in the way of that, but makes me reconsider opening the mobile app altogether. If that's somehow not an option, please let me hide clips or not allow certain creators to not feature at the top of mobile app.
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OkamiWes commented
Would love it if you guys could put a " feature clips button " in the video producer section so that creators can put clips made from vods after the stream into the featured section, I have a bunch of clips in my video producer but I can't put them in the featured section, there's currently no way to do so...