Just a minor complaint about one specific ad that keeps popping up. It's new samsung TV ads. They start with a flash and a very loud noise, which makes me jump every time they start.
I think those kind of ads are really disruptive when you watch more calmer streams or can be jumpscare like if you watch a tense stream.
I hope you will look into this particular one and normalize volume not to be so sudden

Whenever you get multiple ads and set the volume to a certain volume (ie. lower it because sometimes its ear **** @Adobe) the next ad will play at the volume that the stream was at whenever the ads started rolling.

This is a HUGE problem. Ads blowing my ears out on my headset. And usually twitch is a passive channel to watch while your playing a game or something else so you have to stop that, switch to the Twitch channel, mess with the volume and then when the ads are gone, the person you tuned in to see is TOO QUIET. So it is in fact ruining two experiences.

This should be top priority for Twitch, its an ongoing issue and when one of those ads comes on and blows my eardrums out (because i use headset) I really get a bad feeling for the advertiser. and then its not just once, the same ad will keep coming on driving that sentiment over and over again. Not doing a good service for the advertiser, kind of anti-advertising.

Seems like Twitch doesn't care about this at all. very disappointing....

This is terrible that it's still on-going for 2 years. Only started using Twitch but I might have to switch back to YouTube.

Are the ads massively compressed like they used to do in the old days? You can't ever predict ads like you can with old school media. BAM ad. BLARING SOUNDS! DIVING FOR THE VOLUME CONTROL! WHICH IS QUICKER? physical or software controls. This is just cancer. I have neighbours who will aggressively threaten my life if i make too much noise, and frankly I shouldn't have to constantly wear headphones when you can just not be a completely evil peepo heads and just set guidelines for paid adverts. You set guidelines for just about everything else. No more screaming ads. It really is ridiculous. Advert audio guidlelines update please.

oh please every **** ad that plays on the twitch app when i'm watching a broadcast on my phone or tablet is so ******** loud i have to quickly lower the volume like 50%... which is why i can't play someone's stream while i sleep, your **** ads wake me up. I cant' watch streams if I'm in the bathroom for awhile (like when i cut my hair) cause the ads are so **** loud (and echoes in there) you can hear the ads from the OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE. It's why i leave my adblockers on for twitch when i'm watching from my pc. Looked on the net and I see why, most streamers keep THEIR volume a lot lower then "normal". After a decade or so you idiots still can't figure it out? LIMIT the max volume of ANY ad to like 50% of what it is now....

agree, the adverts are painful to the ear, suddenly and with no warning. this is a health hazzard

3-5 second ad warning notification before ad actually plays like the one youtube has so we can turn down our volume and not have our ears blasted to death.

Is twitch gonna fix this already or what? Seriously this is ridicolous so many people are counting and yet Twitch couldn't care less. Ignoring its users' feedback it's so unprofessional and really not worth of a platform like Twitch. I guess what brings them the money it's ads and that's their priority.

Absolutely! So pissed about this. Watching some stream while cooking, moving into the living room for like 2 minutes and suddenly some bullsh*t is screaming from the kitchen so even my neighbours could hear that.

Which is even worse: I love watching and listening to ASMR when trying to sleep. How would you like it being (half) asleep, someone sneaking right next to you and SUDDENLY SCREAMS INTO YOUR FCKING EAR making you jump up with a heart rate over 9000 one second after having a good night resting sleep?!

Can you please fix this? Given this is a platform made by and for computer experts then I hardly understand there being any technical issues on implementing this feature. "We" should be better than this, and not be just another commercial platform where ads can just run you over for profits. It's disappointing.

My eardrums are sensible. Because of Twitch ads I had to specifically install third party sound compressor as I have health concerns. I understand that ads support Twitch, but please stop making this a litteral pain for viewers.

My tinnitus gets triggered -every friggin' time- an ad is played on twitch. The times where an ad doesn't blow out my eardrums are rare and few. It's come to the point where I have an actual button dedicated to muting my whole setup just to get through the whole 'twitch ad-experience'. Other sites seem to manage, why don't you?

For now I've limited myself to viewing VOD's, reporting the absolute **** out of ad's just to get around them. Is this the consumer experience Twitch wants people to have? Seriously?!

I don't care about the length of the ads or the excessive amount of ads. I just want to enjoy the steam afterwards without a constant beep ruining the experience.

Twitch is, quite litterally, destroying people's hearing. Why? WHY?!

My tinnitus gets triggered -every friggin' time- an ad is played on twitch. The times where an ad doesn't blow out my eardrums are rare and few. It's come to the point where I have an actual button dedicated to muting my whole setup just to get through the whole 'twitch ad-experience'. Other sites seem to manage, why don't you?

For now I've limited myself to viewing VOD's, reporting the absolute crap out of ad's just to get around them. Is this the consumer experience Twitch wants people to have? Seriously?!

I don't care about the length of the ads or the excessive amount of ads. I just want to enjoy the steam afterwards without a constant beep ruining the experience.

Twitch is, quite litterally, destroying people's hearing. Why? WHY?!

Hi! Can we have an update to this partial release please? Why are some ads fine and some unbearable? Thx

there's currently one add rolling in finland that is deliberately making ear-breaking ding sounds with under a second of warning. not sure if normalization even works with that if there's just 2 loud ding sounds and the rest of the ad is pretty silent.
I'd fix this by giving an option to choose visual only ads for music streams. this way you could show full screen ads, but it wouldn't break continuity of the stream.

Can we not have sudden and loud jumpscare adds? The NFL add is the worst. I'll be listening to a calm stream, (and since ASMR is a category i suspect im not that uncommon) and out of now where there are loud explosive adverts screaming in my ears about sportsball event xvivii 2 XTREME EDITION or whatever.

Had this happen to me a number times. It seems that the Ad video player disregards the volume that the stream video player is set at and defaults to the normal 100%. This is extremely disruptive and sometimes it is irritating enough that I leave a stream/VOD much earlier than if this issue was fixed.

Since Ads are here to stay, please fix this since streamers are losing viewers from this issue and it's not even their fault.

I have just experienced this issue. I had my headphones with medium volume, the streamer had a Lowe volume and the ad literally was a jumpscare to me! You should really work this out asap because one can also have severe issues to ears, and also this is definitely not good for people with fragile heart and this is hazardous. I would sue you if I had physical damage because of the louder ad volume.

"The volume of an ad will match the volume of the channel you’re watching." It says this under the Audio Ads Experience.
This is most certainly not true. The ads are always WAY louder than the stream I am watching. Remove this from the audio ads info section (as it is a blatant lie) or actually make the ads the same volume as the stream I am watching. Tired of having my eardrums blown out by ads.