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.

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?

Ill be frank, I don't know how it is determined which ads I do get(aside of localy specific) and maybe I'm a special snowflake with being 30 and never using any social media(and thus having nothing of me in big data storerooms).

So 70% of my ads are Amazon Prime related. Which in itself is no problem, the issue is that I have to endure basically the same one commercial for weeks on repeat.

You literally made me hate Top Gear, Lucifer and whatnot.
I sure there are a multitude of other ways to advertise prime or whatnot than playing the latest big gun for weeks on repeat.

Add blockers block adds that support twitch and free streams.

Currently, it is up to the streamer or chat to ask people to turn off addblock, and it's something that rarely comes up because chat and the streamer are focused on the stream content.

So I'm suggesting twitch includes some sort of unobtrusive notification humbly asking for users to turn off addblock on twitch, explaining the importance and maybe statistics showing how add revenue has impacted twitch. (ie non subs can contribute in a very meaningful way by watching adds)

This is important to me because when i first started discovered twitch it took me awhile to realize i had addblock on.
Why?
A. There were no holes where the adds would go (sometimes addblock's screw up the way a site looks when it takes the adds out)
B. Watching a stream with addblock is the same as watching a stream you are subbed to. Unless you know you should be seeing adds, with addblock on there is no way to know if twitch even has adds.

One tangent to this would be to add advertisement display methods for users not subbed but with accounts. Like instead of covering the stream video it could cover your followed channels menu, or take up the entire screen except the stream, or even just a "delay next add by one minute" along with a countdown till the add shows. (for when the stream is blowing up but you are suddenly watching an add - very frusturating.)

TL;DR Tactfully ask users not to turn off addblock and make adds more user friendly for account holders.

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.

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