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1. Banned and Blocked users only see ads

   If you have blocked or banned someone from your channel, when they come to your channel they no longer can watch the stream. They see nothing but an endless ad roll. They click on a VOD? You can watch it, after these ads. But then the ads never end.

   Not to effect timedout users.

   Please. Thank you. I love you.

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2. Allow streamers to tailor what sort of ads appear on their channel

   Tonight I triggered a 90 second ad break in order to disable prerolls. I was then informed by my guest that my stream was being used to push a crypto.com NFT project.

   I cannot, in good conscience, continue to stream on this platform when the content I produce is used to push this. Besides finding the crypto “industry” repugnant, many of my viewers are underage, and would not know better than to buy into a scam. I won’t be the vehicle by which they’re taken advantage of. This is the Twitch “Affiliate” and “Partner” programs, after all - I refuse to be “affiliated” or “partnered” with crypto and NFT’s.

   But this isn’t about just crypto. I’ve seen other posts complain about being unable to screen other sorts of ads they find unethical or immoral and don’t want to have on their stream, such as military recruitment or gambling.

   It’s not the same as an ad being played before a YouTube video, where viewers can seperate the content of the ad from the content of the video and the content creator. It’s live. I clicked the button that played that ad in real time. It’s being played in between me actively interacting with viewers right then, with my face on the screen, on a channel that has my name attached to it. There’s a sign in the corner of the ad that says to watch it to support my stream. I am effectively endorsing whatever Twitch is advertising, as if I was reading it off a teleprompter myself.

   This issue must be addressed broadly. There has to be a system put in place as soon as possible to allow streamers to tailor the ads that appear on their channel.

   I’m uncertain on the best way to implement this. I would experiment first with broad categories of ads like “food” or “entertainment/media” that streamers can uncheck if they don’t want them to appear on their stream, and see where that gets us.

   This needs to be a priority. Your content may be being used to push an agenda that you despise with your entire being, and there’s currently nothing you can do about it.

   Tonight I triggered a 90 second ad break in order to disable prerolls. I was then informed by my guest that my stream was being used to push a crypto.com NFT project.

   I cannot, in good conscience, continue to stream on this platform when the content I produce is used to push this. Besides finding the crypto “industry” repugnant, many of my viewers are underage, and would not know better than to buy into a scam. I won’t be the vehicle by which they’re taken advantage of. This is the Twitch “Affiliate” and “Partner” programs, after all - I refuse… more

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3. Ads Incentive Program

   We are launching a new ad program aimed at providing predictability for your ad revenue. How it works is that you stream for a specific number of hours — while running ads — in exchange for a flat payout. The goal is simple: help you earn a more predictable monthly income through ads, with no ceiling on earning potential. We want to help remove the guesswork of your monthly ad payout. We’ve built it on top of Ads Manager so it is easy to use. Just set your ad schedule and you are ready to go.

   The Ads Incentive Program is available for select Creators in the Ads Manager section of your Creator Dashboard (as a note we are not currently accepting requests to join the program).

   These offers are just the beginning for this program. You can find out more information here:
   Twitch Blog: https://blog.twitch.tv/2022/02/22/reliable-ad-revenue-with-one-click-its-really-happening/
   Help Article: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/ads-incentive-program

   We expect to improve this experience over time in order to make the lives of creators easier and we look forward to hearing your feedback.

   We are launching a new ad program aimed at providing predictability for your ad revenue. How it works is that you stream for a specific number of hours — while running ads — in exchange for a flat payout. The goal is simple: help you earn a more predictable monthly income through ads, with no ceiling on earning potential. We want to help remove the guesswork of your monthly ad payout. We’ve built it on top of Ads Manager so it is easy to use. Just set your ad schedule and you are ready to go.

   The Ads Incentive Program… more

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4. Replace fullscreen prerolls with new Stream Display Ads

   Full-screen pre-rolls are a huge obstacle with user experience and streamer discoverability. Users do not want to browse new, unknown streamers because watching a fullscreen 30s ad before getting to check out a streamer is annoying. It's a huge deterrent so users tend to rely on their go-to streamer. Replacing the forced fullscreen preroll with a Stream Display Ad instead will encourage users to once again check out new streamers.

   This change would be a massive improvement for both viewers and streamers.

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5. Rework the Ad Incentive Program

   Currently, the Ad Incentive Program presents you three offers every month. It's on a take it or leave it basis. I find there is a big issue with this though. The amount of money you are offered is fine. The amount of hours you are required to stream for a month is fine. The thing that doesn't make sense is the amount of minutes of ads per hour you are required to run.

   I have received offers in two months now where the lowest ads per hour requirement was 4 minutes, and I have even seen some people with their lowest being 7 minutes. This creates two problems. Some people may be willing to run ads, but they aren't willing to run THAT MANY ads. It seems counterintuitive to require them to run too many ads per hour, such that they just decide to decline it and run no ads that month.

   The second issue is the longest time an ad break can be ran for is 3 minutes. It works really well to just take a break from the stream once per hour while the ads are playing, so that no one misses any of the content from the stream. When the minimum ad incentive offer is over 3 minutes of ads per hour, it is impossible to just take a single ad break per hour. For example, with 4 minutes per hour, I am required to take two 2 minute ad breaks every hour. It just doesn't feel right to take a break from the stream every half hour, so I end up having ads playing while I am presenting content.

   I think a better way for this program to work is as follows. When you receive your Ad Incentive Program offer, it will give you the hours required to stream that month, along with a price per (minute per hour) of ads. Then you can choose how many minutes of ads per hour you wish to run that month. For example, it may say stream for 100 hours at a rate of $100 per (minute per hour) of ads. So I can choose to run 3 minutes of ads per hour to earn $300 in that month, or only run 1 minute of ads per hour to earn $100 that month. Or I could even choose to run 10 minutes of ads per hour to earn $1000 that month.

   I do think the Ad Incentive Program has been helpful for earning more revenue as a streamer, but it's still not ideal. This change would at least give a bit more control to creators as to how they run their stream.

   Currently, the Ad Incentive Program presents you three offers every month. It's on a take it or leave it basis. I find there is a big issue with this though. The amount of money you are offered is fine. The amount of hours you are required to stream for a month is fine. The thing that doesn't make sense is the amount of minutes of ads per hour you are required to run.

   I have received offers in two months now where the lowest ads per hour requirement was 4 minutes, and I have even seen some people with their… more

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6. Option to disable pre-rolls for a full hour

   Currently, in the Ad Manager, you can set ad breaks to be up to 3 minutes, but 90 seconds is the maximum amount to disable pre-rolls (30 minutes). Why not allow to disable pre-rolls for the full hour if you set the Ad Manager to 3 minutes? Running an ad every 30 minutes is way too disruptive. I am incapable of taking breaks when I speedrun for a full 100 minutes, it it impossible for me to adjust the three disruptions that would occur so that no one misses an important fight or trick. If it was ONE break of 3 minutes, that would be doable and I would totally be on board with running a higher ad density so I could disable pre-rolls completely.

   You already have all the settings in the Ad Manager, there's almost no work to do here, and it's the exact same ad density than with 90 second ad break every 30 minutes so you lose nothing, if anything you win because I, and probably other streamers that can't bend to taking a break every 30 minutes, will actually put that many ads on the channel instead of not doing that.

   Currently, in the Ad Manager, you can set ad breaks to be up to 3 minutes, but 90 seconds is the maximum amount to disable pre-rolls (30 minutes). Why not allow to disable pre-rolls for the full hour if you set the Ad Manager to 3 minutes? Running an ad every 30 minutes is way too disruptive. I am incapable of taking breaks when I speedrun for a full 100 minutes, it it impossible for me to adjust the three disruptions that would occur so that no one misses an important fight or trick. If it was ONE break of… more

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7. Ad Manager API

   Add Ad Manager functions to the API to allow us to snooze blocks from stream decks, see a timer in our bot, run bot commands when an ad block starts, etc.

   This would allow some measure of control over the manager versus having to use the dashboard.

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8. Streamers/Creators should be able to opt-out of military recruitment ads

   Streamers should have the ability to opt-out of certain ads, particularly military recruitment ads. Some creators may have a younger audience. The streamer should reserve the right to protect that audience. The military ad complex is already vast and has deep roots within Twitch. If a streamer does not want that sort of content on their channel, they should be able to block it. Additionally, this option should be able to be seen publicly. Parents who check their children’s activity might want to be able to know a streamer opts out of Military recruitment ads targeted at minors.

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9. Show total ad time left instead of or in addition to the number of ads left.

   When a streamer runs a block of ads, we select the amount of time we want the ads to run for, and that can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes. However when we do that, all the viewer sees is the number of ads left, not the total time left. Since ads vary in length, that doesn't actually tell them how long until they're over.

   Speaking for myself, it's pretty much a daily occurance to have someone post a message like "8 ads??" in my chat. And sometimes that number can be in the double digits. If viewers were either instead or in addition shown the total time left, like we select as the streamer, I think it'd reduce the shock of how many ads are coming, which should make for a better viewer experience.

   Also kind of a side point, but if ad inventory is a problem, you could just display "Up to x:xx of ads left." I don't think anyone is going to complain about the timer being cut short.

   When a streamer runs a block of ads, we select the amount of time we want the ads to run for, and that can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes. However when we do that, all the viewer sees is the number of ads left, not the total time left. Since ads vary in length, that doesn't actually tell them how long until they're over.

   Speaking for myself, it's pretty much a daily occurance to have someone post a message like "8 ads??" in my chat. And sometimes that number can be in the double digits. If viewers… more

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10. Ad Incentive Program - Offer Negotiation

    I have been a part of the Ad Incentive Program since March-April of this year trying various ad lengths and seeing the consequences of longer ad running times. For context I have been Streaming on the platform full time since early 2019.

    One major perk to any level of Ad Program offer is that Streaming has become more sustainable for specific partners like myself.

    A major issue is that offers CANNOT be renegotiated. If you receive an offer for 1 min, 2 mins, 3 mins per hour one month, your next month could be a minimum of 5 mins per hour ranging up to 10 minutes.

    For content creators that don't ever plan to create content that allows for this many ads per hour to fit nicely, this becomes an issue. (Especially for people who want to still utilize the program's offers)

    For example, this month my minimum offer is 7 mins of ads per hour, where I would prefer the same revenue rate at a lower number of minutes per hour.

    Without a renegotiation feature I can no longer utilize the program, due to its extreme requirements being a minimum of 7 mins per hour.

    Renegotiating will help both Twitch and its Ad Incentive Program users, since more offers could be accepted and catered to the styles/types of content the creator intends to pursue during the next month. More ads will then be run on the site, benefiting Twitch and its partners.

    This "take it or leave it" offer is very unappealing when they are always random feeling, with no way to maintain a schedule with ads.

    I have been a part of the Ad Incentive Program since March-April of this year trying various ad lengths and seeing the consequences of longer ad running times. For context I have been Streaming on the platform full time since early 2019.

    One major perk to any level of Ad Program offer is that Streaming has become more sustainable for specific partners like myself.

    A major issue is that offers CANNOT be renegotiated. If you receive an offer for 1 min, 2 mins, 3 mins per hour one month, your next month could be a minimum of 5 mins per… more

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11. Reduce the greed on Ads

    I formulated the title drastically because it‘s a serious problem lately happening on Twitch and don’t see that getting addressed from them, at least not in the level as it should.

    I said it several times on social media and i also say it here: Twitch is ruining their ads business, constantly and -seems like- willingly:
    - The sheer amount of ads which you face as a viewer of the platform is simply ridiculous
    - You‘ve guys taken the control of the ads out of the hands of the content creators
    - You implement changes to the ad system without notifying anybody nor testing it out
    - the Ads for bits function is not working

    So, let me explain that points one by one:
    — Amount of Ads —
    If i enter a stream (the so called „pre-roll ads“) the player tells me:
    - „Ad 1 of 2“, then ofc „Ad 2 of 2“ and then it starts over again, 8 times in a row.
    - Which makes by
    - - an average ad length of 10 seconds (lowest value in Twitch advantage and easier to calculate here),
    - - 20 seconds per „block“
    - - which makes it 160 Seconds or over 2,5 Minutes i watch ads.
    I really have to ask you Twitch: Are you guys kidding us?

    Not is that just annoying, which leads me (and many others i spoke with) to leave the site. Which means the tab will be closed. And your mid-roll ads have the same issue.

    — No Control for Content Creators —
    Yeah when we are at the mid-roll ads let‘s come to a good point. You guys implement the mid-roll ads without any control for the content creators.

    Okay, the streamers can trigger ads to push the mid-rolls out, but that‘s not the control i‘m talking about. It‘s about the content won‘t be interrupted suddenly by an ads in the worse timing, well how could we prevent that? OH by giving the streamers the fully control about the ad placement for example.

    You guys know that streamers suffer from your „fantastic test“ right? They loosing viewers which leave the channel because of the mid-roll ads, they try to come back but the ads keep playing and playing and they won‘t come back. Many Streamers i spoke with recommended their viewers to install adblockers to keep them in the channel! If that is not an indicator to you Twitch that something is completely wrong with your ads then i recommend to not be ad based anymore.

    — Implementation Failures and Bugs —
    We, as Twitch Viewers, are already used to bugs all over the place: Emotes and Badges don‘t load, Whisper Function does often not working.

    But the implementation of the mid-roll ads, takes failure to a whole new level! Not that nobody was informed, not partnered streamers, affiliates, normal streamers or viewers. The mid-rolls have also been served to subscribers of channels which is a complete no-go. Obviously nobody tested that before implementing it into production or the test methods are not working at all.

    — Ads for Bits Function —
    Okay, let‘s leave that all to the side and imagine: We want to watch ads and get something for it, like bits. Welp that‘s also not working.

    For months i can‘t use the „ads for bits“ function, at all. Strange when i see that you guys can serve the ads over 2 minutes, but if i want bits to watch ads there are suddenly no ads?!? Why don‘t you use the amazon ads here, why i don‘t see the other ads here? The only time a user would get a literal benefit from watch the ads you block the function? I have to repeat myself: Are you guys kidding me?

    I wish Twitch would think more about the user and the content creators and simply not backstabbing on both of them by spamming the user with ads and barely severing and of the revenue to the streamer

    I formulated the title drastically because it‘s a serious problem lately happening on Twitch and don’t see that getting addressed from them, at least not in the level as it should.

    I said it several times on social media and i also say it here: Twitch is ruining their ads business, constantly and -seems like- willingly:
    - The sheer amount of ads which you face as a viewer of the platform is simply ridiculous
    - You‘ve guys taken the control of the ads out of the hands of the content creators
    - You implement changes to the ad system without… more

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12. I am getting advertisements in channels I'm subscribed to, even in channels where I have a tier 3 subscription. I PAY TO NOT HAVE ADS

    I am getting advertisements in channels I'm subscribed to, even in channels where I have a tier 3 subscription. I PAY TO NOT HAVE ADS. Either refund me for every subscription I have because you're FALSE ADVERTISING or STOP IT IMMEDIATELY!

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13. Exempt Mods from Ads

    I suggest Mods should be exempted from ads to but to keep people from abusing the system, we limit the accounts that can be modded in a channel. Streamer get 1 mod at the very start and for the first 5000 followers you can add 1 mod per 1000 followers so a total 6 at 5000 followers and after 5000 followers you get 1 mod every 500 followers. So it keeps pace with viewership and going past that when u get high enough the viewership you add a mod every 100 follows

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14. Remove Inappropriate Ads

    My friend just watched a vod and got an ad that made it seem like a kid committed suicide with their parent's gun. I'm assuming this was some kind of ad to promote gun control. Regardless of your political view, putting an unskippable ad with that kind of content is not something that should be allowed for a widespread audience.

    Either those kinds of ads should not be allowed at all, or we should be given more control over what ads we would like to see on the platform.

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15. Give viewers the option of when to view ads

    To prevent viewers being in a situation where they miss live stream content, give users an option to "View ads now instead of on the regular timer schedule", which would then reset the timer. Yes you have to view more ads, but you then are guaranteed ad-free content for the next X amount of time (whatever the current timer is set at for running ads).

    i.e. Watching a speedrun, on PB pace, 20 minutes left in the stream, but there's an ad in 15 min. I really don't want to miss the end! I'll just play an ad now, deal with it, and then I'll have guaranteed ad-free viewing the rest of this PB run!

    Putting this in the hands of viewers empowers them to have control over the ad experience and then they won't miss the great live content moments they know are coming!

    To prevent viewers being in a situation where they miss live stream content, give users an option to "View ads now instead of on the regular timer schedule", which would then reset the timer. Yes you have to view more ads, but you then are guaranteed ad-free content for the next X amount of time (whatever the current timer is set at for running ads).

    i.e. Watching a speedrun, on PB pace, 20 minutes left in the stream, but there's an ad in 15 min. I really don't want to miss the end! I'll just play an ad now, deal… more

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16. Include Ad revenue accrued for ad fills shown in VOD content in Channel Analytics.

    At this time, Ad revenue from ad fills shown to viewers in VOD content is not represented in the Channel Analytics. This is leading to confusion where some are unaware that they are still accruing Ad revenue for this content format.

    It'd be really helpful to have this outlined in the Revenue tab on the Channel Analytics graph in some way so Creators can better understand how their live and archived content helps them earn ad revenue.

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17. Affiliates should be able to disable ads!

    Affiliates don’t earn enough from ads to have to deal with the headache of them consistently rolling when they’re gaming or whatever content they’re doing! We should have the option to TRUELY DISABLE THEM or have a timer when the next one is gonna show, YouTube has a marker that shows when an ad is gonna run, I get with live streaming that isn’t possible but if I know the times they’re gonna run, I’ll be sure to not start a game or pause the video or stop my content for the 3 minutes it’s gonna run, so my community doesn’t miss anything! It’s almost like you’re punishing the ones that can’t subscribe by forcing them to watch ads and miss out on content. Please

    Affiliates don’t earn enough from ads to have to deal with the headache of them consistently rolling when they’re gaming or whatever content they’re doing! We should have the option to TRUELY DISABLE THEM or have a timer when the next one is gonna show, YouTube has a marker that shows when an ad is gonna run, I get with live streaming that isn’t possible but if I know the times they’re gonna run, I’ll be sure to not start a game or pause the video or stop my content for the 3 minutes it’s gonna run, so my community… more

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18. Please use banner ads instead of random midrolls

    Nobody wants to watch random ads that block out the stream. Picture-in-picture doesn't work if we only see but not hear the stream during ads. Banners would solve the problem - you get to give us more ads but the stream doesn't get interrupted. I repeat: nobody needs random ads that block the stream. it's not only disruptive for the viewers, but also for the streamer. bad idea, really.

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    AdminTwitch (Admin, Twitch) responded

    Just wanted to update this thread that we are doing an experiment right now with Stream Display Ads!

    These are less disruptive ads that allow viewers to see and hear Creators while being displayed. Creators will receive ad revenue for each SDA shown.

    You can find out more information here: https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1422255927483318277

19. Bring back the option to turn ads off our own channels

    I'm a small streamer, there's so many out there like me, and I do speedruns. People can miss things during the runs, ask me things then miss replies or leave during a pre-roll. I had them turned off but now it's forced on people because of Amazons profit-first approach. You're turning people away and, frankly, ruining something I enjoy doing. And I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. Small streamers earn almost nothing, we put content out there that you make money from, but are most at risk of losing the few viewers they have. Just stop it, please.

    I'm a small streamer, there's so many out there like me, and I do speedruns. People can miss things during the runs, ask me things then miss replies or leave during a pre-roll. I had them turned off but now it's forced on people because of Amazons profit-first approach. You're turning people away and, frankly, ruining something I enjoy doing. And I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. Small streamers earn almost nothing, we put content out there that you make money from, but are most at risk of losing the few viewers they have. Just… more

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20. Disable preroll ads for users with Stream Display Ads enabled

    With the testing of Stream Display Ads, many creators are excited to begin using them as an alternative to disruptive full video advertisements. However, because preroll ads are still displaying, the main problem being voiced in my community still isn't being addressed: the disruptive nature of preroll ads.

    To quote my friend Kit, a fellow streamer:
    "Those [preroll ads] are so frustrating, especially hopping into a stream from a raid. Missing all the hi's and thank you's and welcomes because I gotta see a 90sec ad about totino's"

    Stream Display Ads are a great alternative to full video ads, but only when they CAN be used as an alternative. Please give us the option to fully utilize these instead of forcing disruptions to our content.

    With the testing of Stream Display Ads, many creators are excited to begin using them as an alternative to disruptive full video advertisements. However, because preroll ads are still displaying, the main problem being voiced in my community still isn't being addressed: the disruptive nature of preroll ads.

    To quote my friend Kit, a fellow streamer:
    "Those [preroll ads] are so frustrating, especially hopping into a stream from a raid. Missing all the hi's and thank you's and welcomes because I gotta see a 90sec ad about totino's"

    Stream Display Ads are a great alternative to full video ads, but… more

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