Yes please!! It is painful to have the headphone volume up to hear a nice soft ASMRtist and then abruptly LOUD AD plays

8 months later, it's still so much shit

It's been more than 6 months since the official response (5 years since the original post). Progress report?

DO NOT PLAY THE SAME AD AT THE SAME VOLUME TO ME AGAIN! Lower the volume for that ad for me form then on.

This is obnoxious. One ad is inline with the stream and we listen. The second is not so we mute.

Dont abuse your advertising audience .

So Twitch really doesn't give a **** about this illegal behavior? It's 2020 now. Do we really need to take you to court, too?
From a technical standpoint, this issue is easy to solve. What's the hold up here?

I actually stopped watching twitch because of this, I mean look at the date of the post, may 2015, its now 2019, they didnt care about your hearing for a good 4 years. some of you might have earlier hearing loss because of it. Its absolutely ridiculous it took them this long for this change.

I am going back to YouTube and live TV if you do not lower the amount of ads that are played and the VOLUME the ads are played. It is terrible to see the same **** ad over and over again for something I will NEVER use or buy every 5 mins. Is what makes matters worse is the fact that the VOLUME screams at you for something I will never use or buy. As a matter of fact, I will never buy Ice Breakers again because I am sick of their breakthrough advert YELLING AT ME FOR 30 **** SECONDS!!! Fix the volume and the amount of ads. If it seems as though I am yelling randomly through CAPS, I am not. You are merely hearing an advert!

This absolutely needs to be addressed. It's impossible to wear headphones and watch twitch now because some of these ads are so loud it's painful (like actually physically painful). Sort this out now.

i see this is a pretty old post and twitch still has a ridiculous volume on adds and for me that listen to ASMR a lot on twitch to relax those adds are giving me PTSD no joke the clearly twitch dont give 1 F about ASMR and relaxing . big thumb down because i'm even to poor to sub to dodge the terror of twitch adds booo .

This would do a great deal to improve the twitch experience. The ads don't have to be silenced but normalizing the volume level would make the experience far better.

This may also help users discover new streamers. The first impression of a streamer is extremely important for being able to retain a viewer. If an ad is so loud that you turn off the stream, that viewer may never discover that stream again.

Normalization of ad playback volume with the stream average volume would be a MASSIVE quality of life improvement for viewers. Some ads I've experienced are absolutely obscenely loud, and advertisers would love to know that viewers would be able to comfortably hear their ad at a similar volume to the actual content without competing with the inconsistent volumes of other ads.

Omg im getting out of my mind from this shity ads I don’t need to see it with loud music jeeez just fuck of

It's 2019 please sort this out. At certain times of the day when my family is asleep I'm constantly hitting the mute button as soon as an Ad comes on to cancel out the loud jump in volume. Advertising is much less effective when no audio is playing!

Yeah, seconding this. It makes watching overwatch league VODS on youtube way preferable.

I live in an apartment, and the when ads come on with their super high bass, I have to very quickly crank down the audio or risk the wrath of the neighbors. Please find a way to fix this volume problem. Not to mention wearing headphones and being subjected to painful volume jumps.

Have ads with low volume for streams with the ASMR tags or channel.

You SERIOUSLY need to fix the volume levels on your ads. All weekend long I’ve had to deal with commercials that are LITERALLY FOUR TIMES LOUDER than the tournament stream I’ve been watching. I’m going to stop using your program altogether soon because of your cancerous advertisement spam with broken volume levels. Not only are they too loud, but the excessive ads are constantly cutting off the first stock in numerous matches I’m trying to watch. It’s cutting short an entire third of the battle! Seriously corrupt advertising methods. NEEDS to be fixed.

Agreed, completely pisses me off, very rude way for Twitch to treat viewers. Slime

I support this. As a viewer, I despise the excessive amount, length and repetitiveness of ads in general but if us viewers can't get the numbers to make Twitch change their ad system more reasonably, I'd think a volume balance would be at least a step in the right direction. I find myself hitting the mute button on my device every time one or a series of ads come on because they are just WAY too freaking loud. It's very annoying and disruptive. I leave streams all the time because of it. I've actually started viewing more Mixer streamers because it's ad free, at least for now. I understand that ads support streamers but they are just too excessive and everything about them is offputting to viewers like myself. Besides, I don't support the "consume obey conform" by throwing something in your face concept. If I'm in the market for something I'll consider your product. If your ads annoy the shit out of me, I will never support your brand and/or products. I'd rather be without Twitch than have Twitch with its ad system in it's overall current state.