Please don't block the video stream with Ads
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.
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/1603148201489580032
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Tychoe commented
Disgusting Adds Policy
Your adds policy is literally disgusting. That’s the reason I refuse to pay extra for useless “Turbo” over my Prime subscription. Thanks.
What’s next? Planning to delete the platform all over my device and eventually from my life.
Any future updates or plan to enhance this mediocre policy?
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w__a__z commented
@Dday2 they do this because annoying people until they sub is their business strategy, they're more than happy to prioritize profits over user experience
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Dday2 commented
Blocking content is not efficient when ads can run in a dedicated area just below the screen silently. More people would see them & not be annoyed. You'd notice but can ignore if you want. If every other site on web can do this, so can Twitch. But that takes effort.
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Let_it_gomini commented
30秒の広告に配信中で大きなアクションが起こりそうな瞬間を台無しにされ、完全に興ざめ。
広告のタイミングも、頻度も何もかもユーザーを怒らせに来ている。
ユーザー体験を邪魔せずに目につかせるような方法なんていくらでもあるのにサービス利用の妨害にしかなっていない。
日本語での書き込み申し訳ありません。 -
MoimizuAI commented
This will kill twitch. Hey anybody at twitch actually read these? It might improve your website. HELLO??? ANYBODY AT TWITCH ACTUALLY TAKE SUGGESTIONS? THE AD FREQUENCY IS GOING TO KILL YOUR WEBSITE. WHY DO I HAVE TO MISS OVER 200 SECONDS OF A STREAM TO WATCH ADS FOR THINGS I DO NOT CARE ABOUT?
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ItsNotQing commented
Unbelievable. I've never seen any content medium (traditional or digital) block live content with such intrusive ads.
As a user, in-stream unskippable ads that make me miss live content inevitably build very negative impressions on both Twitch and the brands for me.
As a digital marketer, I definitely wouldn't choose such an ad form to ruin my or my client's brand.
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Varandaa commented
Extremamente inassistivel. Estão colocando 2 ads seguidos de 1:30 cada?? Velho, é esperar 3min para continuar assistindo. Sei que vocês so querem dinheiro para fazer a plataforma fluir, mas também estão achando que podemos colocar prime em todos os canais que assistimos? Não tem condições, é ad de 5 em 5min da live. Surreal o que estão fazendo.
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Deviousfurball commented
You probably wont read this or even care, but I want you to know that I truly hate using your site. On a stream I was moding for, there were ads at 5 minute intervals for an hour. Your system is broken, I cannot do my job as a moderator and no one cares. I cant submit a support ticket because the system redirects you so many times it becomes a battle of wills (there is no support section for ads either).
I want you to know that you've won. I do not want to be here, and will avoid your completely broken system. I can barely watch let alone do a job as a moderator. Im done. -
tvtulpenland commented
Well Twitch is very tough, and stubborn as a bull. with the butt against the crib. More and more viewers are leaving for Kick.com and other platforms. they hate ads, just like we streamers. that 50% revenue can stick twitch where the sun never shines. They force viewers to pay, and so for small countries like we live in, this is the nail in our coffin. Those stupid Americans don't understand that.
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tvtulpenland commented
Exactly, many of my viewers have the same, and I myself Ge subs are still getting to see advent. More and more streamers and viewers are switching to the Kick.com stream platform, Twitch is throwing its own windows, those who are in a glass house, should not throw stones. Just like an elephant in a porcelain store.
erseymike123 schreef .
I've pretty much stopped watching anything on Twitch. I get ads on channels I'm subbed to, and they aren't being rolled from the streamer. I've asked them. One is a friend of mine and he runs no ads of his own. I've had channels not even begin playing because of ads. Just terrible. -
AnyMEmdq commented
I now have to subject my viewers to 3 min ads per hour (I made 3 1 min blocks every 20 min) to avoid prerolls for newcomers (because I've seen prerolls going to up to 9 ads in a row, nobody is gonna wait for that). The thing is, extra ads not scheduled by me suddenly just happen out of the blue. Wanna run a million ads? Make them a f**king banner. F**k, make it a permanent banner, if you want (but allow us to curate what is allowed there) and I'll even integrate it into my overlay.
And needless to say, as we have no actual way of checking how many ads were played for how many people, there's no real way of knowing if we are even getting the alleged 55% (of an undisclosed amount), and more often than not I see the numbers not adding up to my mental clculation based on the people who were active in chat and the viewer count, when comparing two different streams
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jerseymike123 commented
I've pretty much stopped watching anything on Twitch. I get ads on channels I'm subbed to, and they aren't being rolled from the streamer. I've asked them. One is a friend of mine and he runs no ads of his own. I've had channels not even begin playing because of ads. Just terrible.
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The_Blood_Stream commented
Tvtulpenland i think you misunderstand peter johnson he says that turning off fire wall is dangerous like playing in traffic
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tvtulpenland commented
Peter Johnson schreef · 09 mei 2023 08:28
I am smell a Scammer / Hacker, Turn of firewall Clown. We are not stupid
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SirenHellVixen commented
PLEASE stop the full screen ads.
They don't help promote any product, they just annoy everyone.I have never seem stream display ads in the 3 years I have been a streamer and viewer
PLEASE push Stream Display Ads to all and stop full screen ads
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Samandme59 commented
I just had 8 ads in a row, taking several minutes, which I of course, muted. And missed a song I requested and had been waiting a half hour to hear. That's just too many ads at once. Twitch and Amazon is getting enough of my money already and I cannot afford to subscribe to every channel. Limit ads or I'm done with both!
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EDL666 commented
This response isn't worth anything, SDAs don't replace any of the other ads, the streamer has no control over them, they don't turn off pre-rolls and if you have SDAs on and an automatic stream schedule, the scheduled ads are all midrolls, SDAs are just *in addition* to all the other ads, this isn't a solution to the problem
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Turbo_Nerd commented
I get that this response is from 2017 but where did the Stream Display Ads go?
Looking at the Twitter post linked, these are far more preferred than how ads are currently. I'm sure you would see across-the-board support for this instead of pre and mid-roll ads, and will see less people bypassing ads with adblockers.The way ads are currently set up is anti-consumer.
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TsukiZer0 commented
Twitch is really bad with their offensive on advertisement. Rather than improve the experience, they make it outright abusive. Youtube has a better deal overall, isn't as aggressive, and Youtube Premium not only removes ads but also has an option for a family package so other connected accounts gets no ads for less.
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BradleyDamaged commented
I just got 10 pre roll ads and then one of the new banner ads that pops up at the bottom of the stream and temporarily reduces the size of the stream being displayed. These display ads were added so we would see less of the very intrusive video ad spam but you just slapped them on top of the excessive video ads and have not reduced the number of video ads in the slightest. In fact I'm actually seeing more video ads than ever before. VODs nowadays are RIDDLED with ads as well. It's beyond ridiculous at this point. Find another way to make this website profitable because injecting extreme amounts of ads is not the answer. I used to spend 8 to 12 hours on this site per day but that has been significantly reduced lately because of the staggering amount of ads. Streaming is very oversaturated nowadays so finding new streams to watch is already really difficult. Having to sit through 3 to 5 mins of ads for every stream you click on is beyond intrusive and greedy. At the very least pre roll ads should have a cooldown of sorts, if you have watched a set of pre-roll ads then you shouldn't have to see more pre-rolls for "x" amount of minutes. That way you can actually browse for streams to watch.