Hello, Twitch!

Currently, when managing an ad schedule, when enabling it from a disabled state, I see the following message:

Ad Revenue Share Split Change
Your updated ad revenue share split will take effect at (time with timezone)

That time is multiple hours away.

This looks like if I enable the default and very aggressive ad schedule, I wouldn't be compensated the 55% until that time has passed, which leads me to believe I'll be running an aggressive schedule at only 30% revenue share. This means, if I want to toggle ads on and off depending on the stream topic, I will need to do it well in advance, in preparation for an upcoming stream, so possibly a day in advance, or just get paid the lower revenue share while still running aggressive ads. This also looks like if I stream 2 days in a row, I couldn't stream without ads the first day in order to ensure I stream with the 55% revenue share the next day. So either both days need the ad schedule or none if I'm trying to get the most value out of running an ad schedule.

It would be great if ad revenue share changes could be instant. The current system makes me think: "well, if I run aggressive ads this stream, I won't be compensated for it, so why bother, since ads negatively impact my viewership so I'll just turn them off for this stream because it's not worth hurting my numbers for the lower revenue share."

My reasoning for this request is that I, as a smaller streamer that streams in various categories, some of my categories have much lower viewership than others ( ~ < 20), and I don't want to run ads for these categories with lower viewership. Not being able to toggle on ads before streaming to a higher viewership category makes me not want to run them at all.

Twitch, please add the ability for streamers to instantly benefit from using ad schedules. When toggling it on before a stream, I want to be able to hit "start streaming" relatively soon thereafter and instantly benefit from an increased revenue share.

Thank you for considering my idea! 💜