The new monetization features boosting and super chats both have 70/30 splits.

Gifting a large amount of subscriptions is a standard way of supporting your favorite streamer, and right now, that would be disincentivized.

The best way to fix this utilizes Tier 2 & Tier 3 subs. Nothing overwhelming happens when they are gifted. The viewer is hardly rewarded.

Some ideas:
-have a bombastic animation play when a mass amount of tier 2 or tier 3 subs is gifted.

-add color and highlights to the text that displays what tier the subscription is.

-sub points & a sub store are a great solution and have been suggested, but make sure the points go to the GIFTER, not the RECEIVER.

With all the overhauls done to other monetization systems, I think the gifted subs could use an update as well!

Create a category where streamers can give a small group of people (...maybe the amount is related on how big is the channel?) full sub benefits without actually subbing, like emotes and not seeing ads (or seeing less ads). This will benefit creators who receive support from other ways, like if someone already supports a streamer on a high patreon tier, they can get the streamer's twitch emotes without needing to sub !

Will also greatly support smaller streams since emotes are a way to advertise a channel and will allow friends (and by friends i mean mods and artists and ...) to show the emotes everywhere.

It is also a good way to make the artists who gets the artist tag to be able to show their emotes (and therefore advertise their work) on other channels, since they can request the not paying sub category to the streamer.

Every month when my prime subscription expires, I am forced to watch ads while the subscription menu says that my prime subscription will be available today. I have to watch ads, disrupting the stream, just because the prime subscription expires before it renews. It is a horrible user experience for prime users because the prime subscription curiously expires exactly one month after activating it, yet it renews later than one month after activating it. The event that causes the prime subscription to end after 1 month should also trigger the event to renew the subscription so prime users are not punished for using prime. There is absolutely no legitimate excuse for these events to be separate and be desynced so significantly. The fact that the expiration timer is prompt and accurate, yet the renewal timer is slow and inaccurate is obviously an intentional mechanism to push people who already pay for prime to pay extra money for a subscription. This is such a greedy and slimy thing to do that ultimately hurts the users and the creators who are responsible for the entire success of the platform.

Allow a sub gifter to give subs "on behalf of" another user.

Inevitably, during a hype train or just as part of the regular course of a stream, someone who is normally an avid gifter or just a steady, regular viewer and active chat participant, will express regret that their current financial status doesn't let them gift subs or send bits.

It would be nice to be able for someone (anonymous or not) to gift subs "on behalf of @UserX". Just another way of sharing some of the love around. I think several of the streamers I follow and sub to would welcome such a thing, and I know members of their chats would!

Netflix is 9.99, Hulu is 6.99, Amazon Prime is 14.99 (and you get so much with that).

Twitch is overpriced for 2 reasons right now -

You can support 3 channels on Twitch for 15 dollars as it is right now. Compared to having access to thousands of shows and movies on other platforms.

Those 3 channels you spend 15 dollars on won't have ads, but the other streams you may want to check out are littered with ads. These ads pop up that worst times. Usually when something exciting is happening.

They also pop up very frequently when you are "channel surfing". Watching 30 seconds + of ads while just trying to see if you want to watch a channel adds up and makes channel surfing almost impossible.

My suggestion is to lower the very lowest subscription cost to 99 cents. That's the price of one song on iTunes. Whole albums from notable artists cost about the same as 1 Twitch subscription.

Maybe restrict access to most emotes (maybe give 2 or 3), but for 99 cents, you can bypass ads on that certain channel.

I think this option would increase revenue and get more people to participate in a streamers chat while also reducing ads greatly.

Final thought: Pre-roll ads should only be a max of 10 seconds so people can channel surf and browse new streams on the fly.

Imagine being able to buy 10 sub-vouchers in one go, which you can use like the prime sub, by checking a checkbox. This would mean that there would only be one bundled payment instead of having multiple payments.

You could maybe even use the vouchers to gift a sub.

The possible advantage from my point of view is that you can pay for all your subscriptions at the same time, which would make

This could maybe even come with a discount as there should be less money transfer fees.

Going even further: You could have an autobuy option for the vouchers, so you have e.g. 10subs a month available.

Instead of the current way that partners have maximum of 3 lifetime subs they can give to viewers and 2 to bots, I'd like to see this updated to something like you can give free sub for one year to 3 viewers (or more for partners and maybe 1 for affiliates).
This would be a good update because life happens and maybe one of your lifetime subs dies or otherwise stops coming to your streams, like if you give your girl/boyfriend a free sub and then few years later you break up you could then give the free sub to someone else.

As for bots you could add a new role that can use all the channel emotes (including bit unlocks), but instead of being able to use them globally all the emotes would work like follower emotes and just limit this role so only 2 accounts (or honestly just 1 might be enough) can have it at the same time.

Current lifetime subs that exist already I'd just leave them be and concider them as legacy product.

Basically the point here is not to only remove the Tiers, but improve instead and we all know that "Tier 2 and Tier 3" is not for everyone, so the idea is to make this a more comfortable way for the Views to use it and for the Streamer to manage!?

1° Instead of the "Tier" the sub should be a fixed price.

2° Add an option that make viewers choose if they want to pay more for the sub and that extra being like a donate.

3° That would be an way to not have a separate "Donate Button" on Twitch Channel and since we all know that twitch is good with "payment methods", adapting this to the streamer region would not be a big deal.

4° Twitch should discuss this with the community about the "share and tax" for the streamers.
E.g. If this idea get implemented on the way that sub it's right now, people would be mad at the share they would receive from it.

5° The Reward/Prizes for "Paying More" should be on the hand of the streamer to choose the amount and be creative with it.
E.g. "Channel Points Buttons" exclusive for it, the "Tiers emotes" and a lot of things.

PS:. In the end is just an Idea having in mind that is not perfect, would be an improvement at least to me, but feel free to add any extra suggestions on the comments.

Gifted subs are a great idea to in crease engagement in a particular community. However I do not for the life of me understand why a gifted sub can be give to someone who has never seen the channel.

Please implement a control that forced gifted subs to be given to people who have spent a "significant" amount of time in the channel.

For instance, I was recently gifted a sub to a channel I know nothing about, and have no interest in watching based on the content being aired. This to me is a waste of the gifter's time and money, and does not serve to increase a channel's viewership; I am NOT interested in that creator's content.

A "significant" amount of time can be something like..maybe an average of 1 hour per month, maybe more. The idea is to reward people who will find the content engaging and help them grow the channel.

As things are right now, the person who gifted me the sub to a channel I will never watch has effectively wasted hard earned cash, and has failed to grow the engagement of the channel. This, on all sides, seems so wrong to me.

Yes, I know I can disable gifted subs for channels that I do not follow, but I feel that is far too broad a brush. A change to something more along the lines of a "merit" based gifted sub would be far more effective at growing a channel and increasing viewership. Maybe I've watched a channel a handful of times and just haven't found THE reason to follow it. But a gifted sub in that respect might push me over the edge and allow me to interact more positively than simply disabling the gifted sub and effectively losing the gifter money, as the intended effect failed.