In the middle of watching someone's exciting steam, an ad pops up covering the entire video while chat continues. Chat is then going crazy because something awesome just happened, yet we were unable to see it because an ad was covering the video stream. What a disappointment.

Make the ad go into a corner with sound or something, but please do not block the whole image. That's the reason why we are here, to watch the steamers. You want the ads for monetary gain, fine, but find a happy medium where you don't disappoint your customers. Badly placed ads drive more people away than keeps them.

Until a couple of months ago, I could earn anywhere from 5-75 bits per ad watched while watching ads for bits on my pc. That was cool and allowed me to support my favorite streamers.

Then I installed the twitch app on my ipad. Big mistake. After installing the ipad app I was no longer able to watch ads for bits on my pc.

The 'watch ad' button is now permanently grayed-out when I try to watch ads for bits on my pc. I am able to watch ads for bits on my ipad but I only get 2 bits, which is not worth the time. I have tried uninstalling the twitch app on my ipad to see if that fixes it. No joy.

2 bits per ad is not worth it, so now I never watch ads and have re-enabled adblock on twitch.tv. I never watch ads on twitch anymore. I don't buy bits anymore either, and instead support my favorite streamers directly.

If this issue were to be fixed and if the amount of bits per ad earned didn't vary by platform, I would watch ads again on twitch and disable adblock on twitch.tv.

Since this change I've been driven further and further away from Twitch.tv as a platform. I find it ridiculous that the only way to not have to see this annoying Ad spam is by using my ONE prime sub or just not watching content on Twitch.tv. There is a major problem with that approach, and until something changes (and I'm certain thousands of others would agree here), I will no longer be using this platform for my viewing pleasure.I hope you guys get this figured out and find a better solution soon, like putting the Ads responsibility back on individual streamers, since that empowers THEM to generate revenue for themselves, as opposed to the obviously fake cop-out of "this ad supports -insert random streamer here- " since that just seems so disingenuous.

I have no problem with ads usually and I understand why they're there, but it seems that a new feature rolled out that makes it so that an ad plays every 20 minutes when you're watching a vod.

I find this really annoying, as the ads are usually about 100% more loud than the vod so every 20 minutes I need to stop whatever I'm doing and turn down the volume on my computer (since I can't change the volume of the ad, which is not great either btw) and wait for the ad to finish so I can turn the volume back up.

Even if tedious, I'd be ok with this if it happened like every hour or so instead of 20 minutes. So... pretty please?

I know that twitch has been looking into ways to get around AdBlock and whatnot to ensure that ads get played, but: Consider less intrusive/annoying/irritating advertising. The majority of people are using AdBlock because they find ads annoying. You know, that stereotype CONGRATS YOU'VE WON A FREE PRIZE!!! flashing ad kind of thing?

If you were to make twitch advertising less intrusive, I believe it would help. Twitch ads already aren't that bad, but they could be improved in a number of possible ways:

• Make the advertisement only hijack the video feed, not the audio. With the advertisements jumping into both the audio and the video, there is a disconnect. Viewers come back into the stream after the advertisement is over going "Wait, what happened? What did you say?" and streamers have to repeat themselves or explain what just happened. Like, take Pokémon Shiny Hunting or Wifi Battling: If a streamer finds the shiny or somehow has a great comeback, the audience is going to miss that and say, "Wait, you got it? :/" Maintaining the audio feed allows for some reduced level of connectivity and immersion while at the same time allows for advertisements to come through.




• Text-based pop-ups, like on youtube. You know those little grey rectangles that pop up on youtube that you can just x your way through? Have those, but maybe even disable Xing out of them for thirty seconds or whatnot. A small grey box isn't that bad; maybe it's not worth as much and thus can have a higher frequency of appearing, but I'd definitely be willing to sit through more of those than normal advertisements.




• Select preferred advertisers. An ad isn't very effective (or even worse, counterproductive) when it's thrust in the face of someone who doesn't exactly care for or dislikes what the ad is showing. Like, no, no matter how many times you stick LOL in my face, I'm... Just not interested. But if it's for, say, Pokémon or Nintendo in general, I'm more "Yeah, okay" in regards to the ad. It's just a more positive experience to see what you want: If we have to have ads (and really, they are not that bad, and it keeps people in their homes and fed, so we kind of do), I would be much much less annoyed if I had my choice of what kind of advertising I would want shown to me. Show me what I want, and it makes it a more pleasant experience. Have a checklist or drop-down in a user settings page to allow people to opt into getting certain company ads targetted at them. (Like, Nintendo ads, Sony ads, Microsoft ads, etc.)

Again, ads are not Bad: They keep people paid. It's either ads or total 100% subscription only services. And twitch is great as a platform and as a company. But I just think there's still room to make even ads a more positive experience. (Like, how many places can you say, Even the advertising is okay?) Idk. I want to support my favourite streamers, but sometimes it's like, Come on, I don't want to see this :( There's definitely still room to grow.

I wanted to leave feedback somehow and this is the only spot I could find to do it. Just wanted to say your gaining bits by watching ads idea is awesome. Actually, your entire bit system is magical. I really hate using PayPal to donate money to streamers, it's so slow and annoying to have to open another web page just to show some appreciation. Not sure if Amazon had something to do with that process or not, but I LOVE it. I just really wanted to show my appreciation, I really hope other countries will be able to share in the watching ads for bits system soon cause I know a lot of ppl can't part with their own money (or don't have any to part with) but would totally be willing to watch ads and earn bits to give their favorite streamers. GG

Most of ads should be skippable. Your site is a live streaming platform, you cannot force people to watch ads while they were watching something else that they will completely miss because of ads. Same concept goes for the first AD you are forced to watch as soon as you open one live stream. If im forced to watch something without any possibility to skip unless i close the whole page, i will 100% start hating on the promoted product just beause it is disturbing my plans.
Also giving people the possibility to spam as many ads as they want, looks like a streamer paradise, right, but it became fkn hell for others not streaming and just watching. There are more ads on twitch now than in tv. At this moment, twitch is comparable to any illegal movie streaming platform where they spam 100 ads per second to earn the most possible income. Legit feels the same.
Also. Why do you think youtube lets people ADBLOCK ads, instead of adopting a different system like you are doing here? (yep, ads are impossible to block on twitch)
Because someone just dont want to watch ads end of the story. Not even 1. By forcing people to watch ads no matter what (unless you pay of course) you are willingly pushing a decent slice of audience away from this site, since they just dont have a chance to navigate ads-free.
It might look like a smart idea in short terms since everyone now is obligated to watch the same amount of ads, still, on a long run, you will scare away a decent slice of people just because of this issue.
Remove your stupid in-stream impossible-to-block abusive unskippable ads.
PS. i had to watch the omen desktop ads at least 500 times in the past 2 weeks. I never meant to buy that crap and i never will, so, exactly, how is it effective in any way to keep spamming that sht to me since im obviously not interested, i wonder.
Also, promoters will soon understand how uneffective it actually is to promote stuff here, because of what i just explained, and you will eventually scare away advertisers too.
Also i basically stopped exploring rooms, because now i have to watch a damn AD everytime i close a stream to open another one. It got so boring that i basically stopped searching for rooms and im always watching the same people just to avoid the system triggering new ads.
Was anyone even thinking to all this issues, when you added this ads-system on twitch?
I honestly dont think so.
This is a gigantic mess.