On 07/31/2020 Twitch responded to “If a channel raids another channel the raiders shouldn't be greeted by an ad.” The Comments were close so could not add to it, and the help suggestion was closed too.

Had a situation occur yesterday as I raided into someone stream at the end of mine. Hoping we can address this so try and make it a better experience for the raiders and the streamer that is getting the raiders.

What happened: When I raided out it just happed to be at the time the other streamer had their hard ad time hit due to their timer settings just as my raid was incoming. So, when my views went over to them, rather than getting the streamer right way they received 2 min of ads. Now normally in a situation where the streamer has already hooked the incoming viewers this would not be a major thing. But to go form one stream to another and get 2 min of ads before you even see what the person is about. Is a set up to have the incoming viewers lose interest and leave before the raided streamer has a chance to keep them.

The suggestion: If there is a way to make it so that incoming raiders bypass all ads from prepoll and timers. Unless the streamer themselves hit the ad button to play ads. But make raiders immune to all ads for the first 30 min of them coming to a stream. Then they start on the next ad break if the streamer has turned on ads, or right away for the pre-roll ads only if they reload the streamers channel.

In my opinion, this will make a better experience for both the viewer and the streamer. Also, in the hopes to keep viewership levels up and allow newer streamers to reach more people.