I streamed 2021 to 2023, had like 10-20 viewers and mostly all of them were subs. Now in 2025 I started again, more like completly new and I now got like 3-7 viewers. The difference is: I HAVE to force them to watch ads. Doesn't matter if it's preroll or midroll, but how should you grow as an affiliate if they leave because of preroll or because of AT LEAST 3 minutes ads to avoid preroll ad?

In 19 hours of streaming (on 4 days) I got 2 subs and made a "profit" of 1,15$ on ads and 0,10$ on turbo (55% revenue). But all of this for 57 (!) Minutes of ads. Only 2 of my viewers didn't get ads. And that 1,25$ from the ads is 1000% dispensable for me to get in exchange of losing viewers. I would even love to pay you 20-50$/month to not showing ads. Stop being so greedy on EVERY affialite - doesn't matter which size.

Maybe you should let affiliates grow to like 20 subs or an average viewership of 20 before you FORCE them to playing ads. After that they have enough viewers which are more likely to watch ads or to sub and then have no ads too. Reinforced showing ads on small streams is not worth, whether for the streamer or twitch.