Remove mid-roll ads
Cancel the testing of mid-roll ads on affiliate and partner channels. Your viewer base doesn't want this and creators don't want ads playing out of their control interrupting their content
As we announced on Twitter earlier, we have concluded the mid-rolls experiment. Thank you all for your comments and the incredible momentum you’ve contributed to this topic.
There have been many great suggestions, both in this thread and in the Ads forum that we have taken back to the team for consideration. It’s important to know that ads are essential to the future of Twitch, however we want to make things as painless as possible. Please still upvote, share, comment, and create new ideas in this forum so that we may continue to benefit from all of your passionate influence.
Announcement: https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1306709495196852225?s=20
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Swordyou commented
Still very much happening... 30+ sec ad every 10 minutes on a recorded video gets absolutely unwatchable
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RyanKile commented
I just canceled my Prime membership because of this... wtf are you guys doing
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Tibcsiqe commented
yeah same ****. The same fckn FIFA2020 ad every 5 mins on recordings. I just stopped watching. Cant fkcn stand another ad like that
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CodeMonkeyMark commented
This has gotten absurd. There are lots of times I'd like to watch recorded videos from my favorite streamers, but I just can't stand the ridiculous number of ads.
Can you really not find a revenue model that doesn't drive us nuts?
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Theorra commented
I have noticed if the VOD is played with audio only, there are no ads.
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Yungz_TV commented
Trying to watch any vods are basically impossible because ads pop up every 10 minutes so I just don't watch them it's too annoying. reduce them to around 1 every 30 minutes or something that is reasonable, please fix this
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EccentricBum commented
Ads every 10 minutes on a 10 hour VOD ? Nice work guys, give that man a raise... you guys really understand your viewers
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Neretil Derem commented
What the fucking hell is this? The same add pops up every fucking 5 min on a fucking 20 hour long video. Plus it starts with a screaming sound and for some fucking reason it's twice as loud as the stream im watching. It literally gives me a heart attack
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Anonymous commented
I have never felt the need to get an adblocker, but this just pushed me over the edge.
It's become just spam at this point, every 10 mins? really? Let alone it being the same ad, over and over, and over again, it makes me hate the ad more and more instead of intriguing me
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suri commented
Thats why ppl left watching TV... at least make it smaller so we are still able to watch who we want to :)
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Calipark commented
This is absolutely insane. Ads every 15 minutes on VODs. This has to be a bug. Totally unwatchable. I kept Adblock off to support the streamers and this forces me to turn it back on. Especially since these ads don’t even support streamers! It’s all Twitch support ads.
You’re going to run your platform straight into the ground doing this. There’s tons of competition these days. Step up your game.
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blem14 commented
20s repetetive advert every 5 min on +6h VoD for a Prime member, are you serious?
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Q Beatty commented
I just tune into someone else. Anything more than 2 ads and I'm outie whether live or not.
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Denis Murphy commented
Agree 100% Missed the climax of a clip on " always on " because of advert. Using it less now. The frequency of ads is the problem. I had 3 ads around a 5 minute clip recently ??? thought it was a mistake by twitch ! put me off going prime !
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Anonymous commented
agree ads are ruining my experience i refuse to watch anyone now because ads every 10 mins. GG twitch you are going to kill your platform
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Chris commented
Intrusive ads will be the death of Twitch if they don't throttle this back. There is plenty of other entertainment and avenues consumers have.
1) Ads are not even relevant or "good" ads. They play me a Reese's peanut butter cup commercial nonstop even though I'm Vegan and never eat candy. Ok...wasted ad dollars there and waste of my time.
2) Why do ads have to be so intrusive? Display an ad banner or ad a skip button to video ads.
3) I think viewers will start to look for alternative forms of entertainment, I know I have already started to look for alternative ad light experiences. Even Youtube has their ads well done. We can thank Amazon's buyout of Twitch that turned it into a toxic downhill slope of a platform. -
fy commented
yeah this crap is NOT tolerable
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Kev commented
Stop posting adds on gods every 10 minutes some of us watch these to get to sleep idiots
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Brun Ost commented
This persists on live streams as well. Ads every 10 min. Countries: Norway and Sweden
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Anonymous commented
Why do you guys at Twitch think it's ok to put ads every 5 to 10 minutes when watching a previously recorded stream. I just want to watch content I have missed but I Can't. Please put an end to that. The ads are intrusive enough when you see one in the middle of a live stream when first going there. But repeat ads at live and non-live streams (especially tons and tons of ads every 10 minutes or less during recorded streams that aren't even live is unacceptable.