I believe these recommendations combined would positively make a huge impact for every streamer and supporter.

Change the payout split between streamers and Twitch. Right now affiliates and most partners only get a 50% split from a Twitch subscriptions ($2.50 USD). I would like to see all streamers get a minimum 70% revenue split from subscriptions with a higher revenue split for all partners 80%. Currently both Facebook and YouTube streamers get a 70% split from subscriptions (and they have the option to create custom subscriber tiers with Youtube).

In addition, I would like to see Twitch lower its payout minimum which is currently $100 USD to $10 - $20 USD. A $100 USD payout is the equivalent to 40 subscriptions not including bits or ad revenue. For the smaller streamers to benefit from that financial support a viewer gives them, they need to be able to actually receive it in a reasonable amount of time.

To put this in perspective: Amazon Affiliates monthly payout minimum is 10 USD (they also give the option to pay out with gift cards) and Patreon's monthly payout minimum is only 3 USD.

The idea is to allow Streamers to award a single tier 1 Subscription per month for Free with no monetary cost or pay out for the streamer.

This would allow followers to make use of the chat emotes, stop pre-roll adds and even allow them to use sub only chat for one month.

After the month is up, the recipient may be more inclined to pay out for a sub in order to keep the Emotes and to stop Adds.

Streamers could use these Free subs as Prizes after hitting a new goal or rewards to returning viewers or just plain randomly gifting someone the chance to be a sub for free.

I think this would increase interest in subbing in the future and help to promote smaller streamers.

when trying to change sub tier in my account. after clicking on the creator i wanted to change, there is a drop down menu with the option "change sub tier" so i clicked on it, and it takes me to a page to donate? it asks me what tier i want to donate, and shows my current sub tier but NO OPTION TO CHANGE IT. im about to just cancel the whole account. i hate having to hunt and peck and especially when the option to "change sub tier" is right on the place i think it would be. similar events happened when i tried to find a spot to actually express my opinion on this matter and the site is seems very unorganized but also way over organized? like i can get anywhere on any page but takes forever to find what i wanted. and then only for it to misleading or completely false and try to get me to donate money? i wanted to relieve the financial burden and the site tries to trick me into donating. very bad taste in my mouth after that. go check it out if you think im crazy. ACCOUNT>SUBSCRIPTIONS>EDITSUBSCRIPTION(GEAR ICON)>then donate all your money to my channel please because the only options are to stare at the current status of my sub tier, or donate more money.

*edit as i typed this and hit post, the site randomly signed me out when i came to this page? this website seems like its from the 90s the more and more im on it.

It's hard for viewers to see how many subscribers a channel currently has. In my opinion, this number should be visible to everyone as well as the number of followers and current viewers. Some of the streamers display numbers (but for the most part they don't). Sometimes new subscribers are counted per stream, sometimes the current month is mentioned and a number and a target value, but it is not clear whether these are absolute values.

In one channel, for example, a different (higher) value was mentioned in the chat than the one displayed in the video window. All in all, very confusing and not very transparent. Partly the !subs command can be used in chat, partly not.

I think it would be an important decision-making aid for viewers if they could see the actual number of subscribers. Since most viewers will not be able or willing to support all the channels they follow also financially.

subs and followers should be scraped for 60 day view counts looking for consistency over that time in growth or avg viewers per stream. A bench mark would be based on that streamer. For ex: Streamer A streamed 8 days over 60 days with total of 100 viewers with an avg of 8 viewers per live stream- streamer b streamed 45 days 2000 total views with an avg of 26 live views over that 45 days. Streamer B gets upgraded allowing viewers to tip/donate they get emotes etc. That is it. The 60 day run would begin at the streamers notion to green light the 60 day shot. Twitch support would look at the data at confirm.
this would give narrow focus streamers a much better chance of getting the project moving because of its individualized nature. Say a literature streamer has 20 live viewers every stream and they stream 50 of the 60 days - in todays world the streamer is a plebe never getting to partner or affiliate - in this alternative he would get upgraded.

The broad based streamer/silly gimmich streamer still does what they do and would not change most likely. The fakers would be found out forth with, and the slow consistent builders would be rewarded for effort so a win win.
Additionally any dmca strikes would start the clock over from zero.

I suggest there be created a "Global" Loyalty points system in addition to channel-specific points; each Twitch user would have a global "Twitch loyalty points" point balance.

Subscribing to a channel, Gifting to a channel, or spending a certain amount of time watching the in-video ads inserted by Twitch would be actions that each reward the viewer with a certain number of Twitch points Per Subscription, or Gift Sub, etc.

Finally, if the user has gifted enough subs, or subscribed to a large enough number of channels: the global Twitch loyalty points should be redeemable for various rewards - which are global in nature and not channel-specific, for example:

"unlock an exclusive emote", "1 free sub for 24 hours", "global ad-free viewing for X hours", etc

I get very tired of the Apple TV app telling me that my free preview has ended for channels I’ve paid to sub.
Happens most times when we go into the app, then into the channel, after having watched the channel the previous night.
If you exit the stream, open another one, and then go back, the error is gone.
At least change the wording on the error... my goodness, I’ve subbed them for 11 months. It’s not my free anything, lol, at that point.
It’d be really cool if it said, hey the session has expired please refresh, because the first time it happened I was mad and confused until I figured out how to “refresh it.”
I’m sure this is an odd situation because we watch one specific stream pretty much every night. It doesn’t happen when switching streams (watching different ones I guess?), and does not happen on the iOS App or Desktop as far as I know. Only on the Apple TV. It’s the 4th gen but without the 4K. Happens on multiple Apple TVs (same model both WiFi) but on the same account of course.
I really don’t care that the error occurs it’s easy to fix. Please please change the wording so it says how to fix it.
Again you gotta open a different stream (or at least it’s live preview) and then go back.
Thanks