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Allow Skippable Ads

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.
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  • Mystic_The_Wolf commented  ·   ·  Report

    skippable AI ads is a good idea, I'm tired of TonyBet popping up and their ai ****

    also ads are skippable, twitch prime is a thing and it's free
  • Staraiedes commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm tired of Spanish ads! I'm English, I get Spanish ads in YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, Twitch. MY LANGUAGE IS SET TO ENGLISH I ONLY WANT ENGLISH ADS!
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  • TermitesRGood commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ads help the Streamer channel with skippable ads that would led to 80% less rev I would think?
  • linke_pobacke commented  ·   ·  Report

    My internet connection is a bit sketchy at the moment.

    Which leads to the problem that the twitch player sees my reconnecting and refreshing of the page as a user who freshly joined the channel. -> And I have to watch an Add... and another... and..

    Because of this, I had to rewatch some commercials more than I like and more than I care. (Which often limes led to me muting a stream and doing other stuff which don't use a steady internet connection)

    Please at least set a maximum amount of ads which are allowed to be shown and give the option of skipping ads if you had more than x in y minutes/hours
  • nutELinda commented  ·   ·  Report

    My idea is that twitch should offer users 2 free ad skips every 24 hours. The user would be in control of when they decide to use the skip, but the cooldown would not start until both ad skips have been used. The skip wouldn't skip a certain amount of time, instead it would skip that entire ad break. For example, if a user were to get 60s worth of ads they would have the option to skip all 60s worth of ads. With limited user ad skips the user would still have to decide whether they wish to watch an ad break or skip it, ideally the skip would be used if an ad break were to occur right before something important happens. Hopefully this gets enough attention to the point where Twitch sees.
  • M7mdPS commented  ·   ·  Report

    there are too much ads you force the people to use ad-block as we want to support you and support the streamer but we can't handle this anymore you should let us skip ads or reduce the duration of the advertisement so we don't miss too much.
  • km_stas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Regarding the comment about being forced to watch ads "unless you pay" - guess what - You are forced to watch ads EVEN IF YOU DO PAY. And when you complain, lazy customer service department makes CUSTOMER do all the work of investigating the problem. Even worse not only do their "solutions"/instructions NOT WORK - they actually mess up your computer. That has been my experience, and now I'll have to pay someone else to make my computer work properly, all because I followed Twitch's instructions. I am beyond disgusted with my Twitch experience.
  • minitransis commented  ·   ·  Report

    its too much every single time i look at a stream im being forced to wait 30 sec to look at one stream. Even mid stream i get ads its so annoying.
  • DynaJr commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is exactly why I will financially support creators of ad blockers for this money hungry platform that is already making money hand over fist. Absolutely disgusting practices.
  • Daykirie66 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I’ve heard feedback from people from other counties saying that they didn’t even knew about ads in twitch, and I also heard content creators say that they barely put ads in their streams; and it’s extremely annoying the amount of ads that I get, for every 10-15 minutes of stream that I watch the third part of it it’s ads, and I get that I get to see ads, but not that absurd amount.
  • Grymmwulf commented  ·   ·  Report

    Aaron - You realize that streamers make NOTHING on those ads, right? My highest ad earnings for a MONTH were $2.83, streaming 99h19m over the course of 25 of 31 days. I literally made $2.83 with an average viewers count of 21 (I'm not a huge streamer). That's literally 2.8 cents per hour, with 21 viewers. So around a tenth of a cent per viewer per hour. Literally, one sub is worth more to me than 100 hours of streaming ad revenue with 20+ viewers.
  • ViPER_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please be able to skip ads after 5 seconds
    You can miss so much from a livestream during an ad where a YouTube video will stay up and does not skip content. Skipping content is terrible and Prime Gaming lost ad-free. I cannot pay for every streamer I watch and do not want to watch smaller streamers due to poor ad handling towards them.
  • Total_Angst commented  ·   ·  Report

    If you want to support your favorite streamers and you can't subscribe to them then that's okay. But if you sub to at least ONE channel on twitch they're making money off you already and you shouldn't have to watch tons of ads just to see what's on a stream.
  • patchesosmiley commented  ·   ·  Report

    allow people to skip ads. I for one am tired of seeing an ad after an ad after an ad
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