How about a section that isn't about ideas and about direct feedback of experience(s) and or complaints. Before you say, " well if you are going to complain then provide a solution" .. that isn't my job as a user of twitch. I'm also trying to understand who uservoice is since twitch doesn't own uservoice? Here is my feedback and complaint ----> In short , in the last couple days, i went from seeing a single ad before watching the streamer to now, SIX ADS IN A ROW. What is that? It's also disturbing when the arrogant top tier streamers say, "SUB then you wont see the ads. It's one thing to get a single ad or even two before watching a streamer or mid roll but shoving down 6 ads NOW is ridiculous. This all happened ( for me ) in the last couple of days. Also, the arrogant comment by the streamer must understand subbing someone just doesn't happen and i know they are use to it with this youth just dumping subs but there is a reason you have a follow button right? Then sub button. If i had to sub the amount of people i follow on my list i would be able to make a 400 dollar car payment. Its just ridiculous. You cant tell me something didn't happen with now getting 6 ads before watching the streamer to how it was barely a couple days ago.

When hopping into a stream for the first time you get an ad. There is then some cooldown before you get another ad even if you switch between streams.
On mobile, if you click a link in chat (for example, a clip from something that happened earlier in the stream), it redirects you to a different video player to play the clip.
The only way to return to the stream is to close this new video player, and go find the stream again. This then plays another ad because the clip took you away from the stream.
This is a minor inconvenience in the scope of all the issues that ads are bringing to Twitch, but this simply should not happen. Getting dragged away from the stream in the first place is strange, but getting punished for watching a clip of the stream is an awful user experience.

The idea is that a user could sit and watch adds in return for an amount of ad- free watch time. E.g. I watch the Ads channel for 10 mins and get 2 hours ad-free watch time on other streams

At the moment streamers have no control over number and duration of ads so we have as situation occurring many times where a crucial part of the narrative is in effect deleted by an ad.

On TV we have the situation where "...and the murderer is ... <advert break> .. "The butler!!"

On twitch we are getting "... and the murderer is ... <advert break> "...
"here is todays weather forecast."

I understand Twitch needs money to provide a service but constant ad breaks just discourage me from watching any stream I am not subscribed to.

Stop blocking a live broadcast with the same three ads. This is live entertainment and your ads more often than not play at the most inopportune times. You're actually worse than cable TV because they pause the content you're watching for an ad break, you guys just want us to suck it up, consume your ads, and line your pockets with our impressions. I get it, you're a business, you need to make money, you're also the largest gaming livestreaming platform on the internet and taking a play from cable TV's playbook without the CRUCIAL component of pausing the entertainment is asinine.

You are in an arms race with adblockers, your ad experience is so horrific people are jumping through hoops so they don't have to use your underdeveloped video player to open a second tab to load the entire VOD, rewind to see what they missed, then jump back to the live broadcast until this happens again, during this time missing content. I can rewind a YouTube livestream while watching live, I can't do that on your website without opening another tab.

You don't have the infrastructure for the kind of ads you're doing. You came at this way too fast. Your ads shouldn't block the entertainment to begin with, at most it should fill chat or you give use the basic ability to rewind without needing to open the entire VOD by itself.

One of my favorite streamers started using ad breaks to disable pre-roll ads. That's awesome, it sounds like that will help with gaining new followers! But I don't want to see ads. I was thinking about buying Turbo, but I already have so many "qualifications" (aka revenue) that seem like they should qualify me to not see ads. Here's why I think it's unreasonable:

• I have Prime
• I'm Subbed
• I'm VIP
• I've donated over 2k bits
• I've gifted subs

Suggestion: reaching the 100 bits badge will grant immunity from midroll ads for a month.

Suggestion: Being VIP grants immunity from midroll ads.

Suggestion: Having 1k bits badge grants immunity from midroll ads.

Suggestion: Gifting Subs grants immunity for a period of time, up to indefinite

Based on average CPMs, each ad generates about $0.01, right? So $9 Turbo would be about 900 ads per month... Ok, end of rant.

I'm not a content creator myself, but I thought of an idea that may help with ads experience after watching the Twitch Townhall.

From time to time, content creators needs to step away from their chairs and sometimes they do not know how long they need to step away for. Instead of having a fixed bank amount of ad blocks, allow content creators have a dynamic way to play ads. It would work like this:

• Creator needs to step away from the computer
• Creator clicks on (Start adblock) button
• Creator can take 30 seconds to get food or 3 minutes to address an issue on a phone call
• Viewer also gets an offplayer notification that the creator has stepped away and these ads are playing on demand
• Creator has returned to the computer and is ready to create content again
• Creator clicks on (End adblock) button
• Creator will get a 30 second countdown when all ads for 98% viewers have ended.
• Back to creating content.