Just for background, I predominantly watch Twitch on Apple TV so bear the brunt of all the incessant advertising which has recently become near unbearable when watching streams. (i.e. no ad block style of apps of any kind)

Pre-rolls are now 2 ads when entering a stream and it seems a lot of streams are opting for between 6 - 9 random ad breaks at a time. What is worse is that it's becoming more frequent that I'll go into a stream, get the 2 pre-roll ads and then after around 2 minutes, another ad block of 6 ads appears.

When content creators have chat mention about the glut of ads, a common response is "just get Twitch Prime and no more ads". Not only is that disingenuous because those ads will be removed from that channel only, but it's almost like we're expected to pay a subscription for what people love to say is a free to watch service.

I get Twitch needs the ad revenue, they're a corporate after all, but for gods sake, look at free to air tv and cable and the decades of research they've undertaken to make sure they don't push the advertisements too far on their viewers to make them switch off in droves.

As it stands right now from my perspective, the sheer volume and frustrating random frequency with which ads are displayed during Twitch streams makes for an appalling viewer experience.

This is yet another example of why Twitch not having any competition in the live streaming market is a really bad thing and it lets them and their content creators get away with stuff like this.

tl;dr Please reduce the pre-roll ads back to 1 and remind content creators about the viewer experience instead of them going ham with 6-9 blocks of random ads which can and do pop up in a short period of initially entering a stream.

Ads should not be shown if a user has been watching a stream for less then 15 minutes.
Example: If I want to check 4 different channels and say hello to them, stay in for 5 to 10 minutes each and then go do something else, I'm forced to watch a minimum of 2 ads each, and they are always the same, this is a deal breaker for me, and I think for many others too.
Of course 30 minutes would be even better, but I know that would be a lot of money that you don't get, so I would'nt hope for so much...

I watch several streams, every night, for years. At first I had no problem with ads, but now every 15 minutes there is an ad. I dont enjoy watchings streams anymore. Sometimes I opened up 5 different Streams at the same time and every stream has an ad running. I just want to see what they are doing and have a good time. Most of the time I instant close twitch. As a streamer im really worried about this but as a viewer im just sad and dont enjoy streams anymore and the streamers arent even to blame.. I dont want to leave twitch but thats too much ads.

I don't think this is the correct place to post the bug, but on firefox I have had an issue trying to watch a streamer where you will serve me an ad and then refuse to let the ad play. Thus I am locked out of the stream because it repeatedly serves another ad that doesn't play if I hit refresh. I hear that advertisers prefer their ads to be played too.

I don't think this is the correct spot to be posting this, but when I tried to go through your help section it felt very clunky and all the categories that sounded right didn't have a spot for me to give this feedback.

The ENO from CapitalOne advertisement regularly shown on Twitch is an enticement for viewers towards acceptance of in-game gambling/progression-based pay-to-win mechanics.

Characters in the advertisement saying "This is the 10th time I've climbed those steps today" and then the human in the advertisement purchasing a $49.99 booster to progress past a difficult encounter is not acceptable.

Showing consumers that it's okay to pay $49.99 to get past a difficult section of the game should be considered as acceptance of in-game gambling and pay-to-win based mechanical game design.

As the "official bank and card of Twitch Rivals", this is not the appropriate message - especially to younger audiences.