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1. I run Mid-rolls, but feel punished because other streams don't.. what am I doing wrong?

   Like the header says, I want to avoid pre-roll ads, so I try my best to run a 60 sec every hr.. but when I do I receive a lot of grief about how other streams don't run mid-rolls...

   What is Twitch doing to support those who attempt to do this right? As I understand Mid-rolls are a much better way to deliver ad's.

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2. What are the percentages of age distribution on the platform?
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3. How about an AD button to support streamers instead of forcing this trash on us

   A button where you can watch ADS on your terms to support a stream.

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4. Stop having ads take up my whole screen and make it so i cant hear whats going on in the middle of something awesome. Makes no sense

   I want to hear and see the thing thats going on live and on my phone it makes it a tiny little box with no sound

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5. Create a more sophisticated ad-timing algorithm

   Ad timing (when in a broadcast an ad is shown, plus for how long or for how many ads) is a largely "invisible" skill in traditional media, but an important one for managing the flow of content delivery that almost no streamers have. Twitch broadcasters lack dedicated producers for this purpose, and the current algorithms that automatically deliver ads account for at most the time since the last ads a user watched. This leads to ad delivery that often interrupts streams very badly.
   Twitch should develop more sophisticated algorithms that deliver ads at the least intrusive moments in streams. For example, someone playing rounds of a PVP game -> showing ads between rounds. Someone doing short/reset heavy speedruns -> show ads after 3 quick resets or 1 long one. A just chatting stream -> follow lulls in conversation.
   Teach a sample of streamers the kind of producer skills that help them spot when an ad would be effective, follow up on the data of them showing those ads. Start sampling tags on the stream and the categories and information like compressed screenshots of the screen before and after an ad. Is there a prediction based on screenshots and streamer volume/speech that can tell you when chat is going to be very engaged? Use that as training data and start making a more sophisticated algorithm. That way you can avoid dropping an ad on top of what should be the highest engagement content, and put in the ads in the lulls and "victory fuzz" moments.

   Ad timing (when in a broadcast an ad is shown, plus for how long or for how many ads) is a largely "invisible" skill in traditional media, but an important one for managing the flow of content delivery that almost no streamers have. Twitch broadcasters lack dedicated producers for this purpose, and the current algorithms that automatically deliver ads account for at most the time since the last ads a user watched. This leads to ad delivery that often interrupts streams very badly.
   Twitch should develop more sophisticated algorithms that deliver ads at the least intrusive moments in streams. For… more

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6. ads

   I've noticed when some ads play they take over the screen and the stream is moved to be above the chat until the ad ends. I think this should be reversed. Ads should take up that space above chat and then disappear; or, perhaps, they appear in the corner of the stream. If this were done, of course, ads would likely have be silent -- and I doubt any user would be against that.
   Whatever the case, ads taking up the entirety of a livestream is just not acceptable and advertisers/Twitch need to figure out a better way to have ads without them being absolutely intrusive on the experience. Imagine you go to a live event and then for 10-30 seconds, your entire vision is blocked out: you can't see or hear anyone/anything except the ad. That's what it's tantamount to.

   I've noticed when some ads play they take over the screen and the stream is moved to be above the chat until the ad ends. I think this should be reversed. Ads should take up that space above chat and then disappear; or, perhaps, they appear in the corner of the stream. If this were done, of course, ads would likely have be silent -- and I doubt any user would be against that.
   Whatever the case, ads taking up the entirety of a livestream is just not acceptable and advertisers/Twitch need to figure out a better way to have… more

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7. anuncios

   Creo que poner anuncios a dia de hoy no es recomendable, porque en primer lugar molesta al tapar tanta imagen, en segundo lugar, fuerza las suscripciones, y en tercero, poner anuncios no genera lo suficiente en comparacion de lo molesto que es para los viewers.

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8. Make better use of your own User Research Community

   Recently there has been a few changes on Twitch that could have been better implemented with some user research. Twitch has had a community set up for this exact thing for a long time, and yet, we are yet to see anything meaningful come through this. This is an ideal way for Twitch to get a better idea of how these changes are going to come through, without having to do "damage mitigation" after the announcement. Are we ever going to see this used?

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9. Mid-Roll Ads Feedback

   Mid-Roll Ads Feedback:

   You wanna roll more ads. Sweet. I want more pre-rolls disabled time for running them.
   90 seconds of ads = 45 Minutes of Pre-Rolls Disabled.
   Disable Mid-Roll ads if 60 seconds of ads have been ran in the past 60 minutes.
   Add an indicator both on stream and on Creator Dashboard that informs us if a mid-roll ad is about to be run within 10 minutes of ad, with a second 5 minute warning.
   Also inform viewers on stream that the mid roll ad that is about to run is 100% started by Twitch and not the streamer themselves.

   Mid-Roll Ads Feedback:

   You wanna roll more ads. Sweet. I want more pre-rolls disabled time for running them.
   90 seconds of ads = 45 Minutes of Pre-Rolls Disabled.
   Disable Mid-Roll ads if 60 seconds of ads have been ran in the past 60 minutes.
   Add an indicator both on stream and on Creator Dashboard that informs us if a mid-roll ad is about to be run within 10 minutes of ad, with a second 5 minute warning.
   Also inform viewers on stream that the mid roll ad that is about to run is 100% started by Twitch and not the… more

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10. twitch premium/twitch plus

    for different monthly rates users can get a monthly "ration" of subs and bits at a discount and are opted out of ads in a "the more you buy the more you save" and "use it or lose it" model. It should also expand upon the "sub tokens" model so people can use them towards different sub tiers.

    ex of different tiers:
    $14.99/mo = 3 sub tokens/mo, no midroll ads, 500 bits/mo
    $24.99/mo = 6 sub tokens/mo, no mid or pre roll ads, 1000 bits/mo
    $49.99/mo = 20 sub tokens/mo, no ads,
    2000 bits/mo

    additional suggestions: you can buy this through your prime gaming acct, and it updates your prime gaming badge from blue to bronze, silver, and gold respective to what tier you're opted in to. You can also get exclusive access to flash sales of extra sub tokens and bits (on cyber monday/black friday/holidays etc)

    for different monthly rates users can get a monthly "ration" of subs and bits at a discount and are opted out of ads in a "the more you buy the more you save" and "use it or lose it" model. It should also expand upon the "sub tokens" model so people can use them towards different sub tiers.

    ex of different tiers:
    $14.99/mo = 3 sub tokens/mo, no midroll ads, 500 bits/mo
    $24.99/mo = 6 sub tokens/mo, no mid or pre roll ads, 1000 bits/mo
    $49.99/mo = 20 sub tokens/mo, no ads,
    2000 bits/mo

    additional suggestions: you can buy this… more

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11. Contractuary Ads on the Streamer's behalf

    Put it in the contract, that the streamer is obligated to play mid rolls every x hours, with a time window of 15 minutes to do so, but make it so, that all viewers see the ads at the same time. Just like on tv. The Streamer can plan and the viewers don't miss anything.

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12. put slow and fast speed on retransmissions
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13. Ad revenue for partners

    Because of the large degree of lurk teams and point grabbing teams with empty viewership, I’m proposing a change to the ad sharing for partners relative to unique chatters and viewers as a combined total.

    I also suggest no ads for twitch Prime users to promote more people having prime, and ads not showing on raids or embeds to eliminate some of the hollow viewing that also put Facebook into trouble with advertisers; then up the revenue sharing for the partners to match.

    To some level this will minimize those without communities/porting lurkteams (I was in one yesterday for 10min that aired 6 ads to his 120 viewers and 3 chatters), give viewers benefit, and give value to partners

    Because of the large degree of lurk teams and point grabbing teams with empty viewership, I’m proposing a change to the ad sharing for partners relative to unique chatters and viewers as a combined total.

    I also suggest no ads for twitch Prime users to promote more people having prime, and ads not showing on raids or embeds to eliminate some of the hollow viewing that also put Facebook into trouble with advertisers; then up the revenue sharing for the partners to match.

    To some level this will minimize those without communities/porting lurkteams (I was in one yesterday for 10min… more

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14. Please consider an ad style like Youtube, please read the reason enclosed, important

    Hi there Twitch & Staff,

    Please consider this feedback regarding the way the ads are currently deployed on your platform and the negative impact they end up having on streamers.

    I believe that the long chunking of ads that will play while you're watching any given stream is adversely affecting your platform in unforeseen ways. Someone like myself will watch a stream for a half hour of time and then end up 'changing the channel' when I see 1 of 5 ads queued up when an adbreak happens.

    This ends up amounting to someone watching a stream and enjoying the content and being conditioned to switch off of the channel because they don't want to sit through 3 minutes of ads and therefor the streamer who has just earned that revenue by streaming for 30 minutes is the one to lose out because someone changed the channel. Your current model of ad rollout is harming the creators it's meant to reward. It could be said 'ok yes, but don't change the channel then'. This is fair, but by and large it's a lot to ask of people who don't know the streamer, any more than when we all had Cable TV anybody would have channel loyalty to keep sitting through the commercials. Even then we had shows that would say "Don't change that dial, we'll be right back". This allowed stations to at least beckon to the end users to stay put. This used to be the case with "On the hour" Ad breaks (Thank you Hasan, I remember this from your channel). It seems like those days are long gone as your platform has seemingly now been riddled with ads.

    I may make a separate post about this, but while watching an offline VOD (the user wasn't live anymore, I had 1 of 5 ads play in the Picture in Picture player, then immediately (within 30 seconds) play full screen 1 of 5 ads. This amounts to about 10 ads back to back, and I have no Ad-Blocker installed whatsoever so there was no punitive pushback on me from any anti-adblock programming, this was just purely what you guys have sanctioned to happen. The streamer was even offline which goes to show that they didn't run the excessive ads.

    Allowing more frequent ads (maybe once every 15 minutes (allowing for 4 ad breaks an hour which is still plenty I hope) with it being skippable after 10 seconds (to ensure that advertiser gets their fair chance to make an impression) would solve for a lot.

    You might think 'ok, then pre-rolls are the answer instead of mid-rolls'.. Not so much, as you're again stifling lesser known creators. People will just grimace and bear the 3 minute ad block instead of checking out someone new and seeing their content because they'll have to sit through ads with each new click.

    Lastly, regarding Twitch Turbo: It may seem like a good idea to run a lot of ads to that people will buy twitch Turbo, but now you've vastly de-incentivized people from buying subs (providing 40% off of one sub is very underwhelming, offering 40% off all subs is smart and encourages people with the money to to still be generous while not having to suffer ads themselves). This will make you more money to have them on twitch Turbo, but there's no true transparency for what the channel should have made because the ads never run. What level of trust does the creator have to know that they will be paid appropriately? They also lose out dramatically as they no longer get the sub revenue they once did. To properly picture how this would all work out, imagine your entire site switched to a subscription model of twitch turbo to access it, and kept only the ad-based model (which now never played because everybody has turbo), how much would the streamer make from these skipped ads? I believe it might be a lot less, and therefore you're cannibalizing your own interests with pushing people to twitch turbo as streamers become disincentivized and may switch to alternative platforms to make revenue.

    I hope this helps you and the streamers who stream here.

    Thank you and God Bless you <3

    Hi there Twitch & Staff,

    Please consider this feedback regarding the way the ads are currently deployed on your platform and the negative impact they end up having on streamers.

    I believe that the long chunking of ads that will play while you're watching any given stream is adversely affecting your platform in unforeseen ways. Someone like myself will watch a stream for a half hour of time and then end up 'changing the channel' when I see 1 of 5 ads queued up when an adbreak happens.

    This ends up amounting to someone watching a stream and enjoying the… more

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15. poster ad panel

    The ability to advertise other streamers via images/posters. These posters, when clicked on will redirect to streamers channel (url). I have drawn up blue prints of this idea (google drive url)
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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bauWfl8XH4odE4T0xR_ZsKFKBr9S90sf/view?usp=sharing

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16. Ads and other

    So difficult just to contact support. Getting 3 ads in less than 30 minutes. Why do we not get paid to watch ads?? Twitch get money from ads, the streamers get money from ads, why not the end user who watch the ads? So many time wasted watching ads. Then why must I click every time on Followed channels just to put it on High to Low, can't you guys keep my settings that I select in the first place? Can't you mute the video when you open twitch? Some streamers scream in there mic and when you open twitch, that sound go full blast in your ears, so annoying.

    So difficult just to contact support. Getting 3 ads in less than 30 minutes. Why do we not get paid to watch ads?? Twitch get money from ads, the streamers get money from ads, why not the end user who watch the ads? So many time wasted watching ads. Then why must I click every time on Followed channels just to put it on High to Low, can't you guys keep my settings that I select in the first place? Can't you mute the video when you open twitch? Some streamers scream in there mic and when you open twitch,… more

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17. Реклама

    Смотрю трансляции людей находящихся под санкциями, почему я должен смотреть рекламу, если люди не могут вывести средства? почему нет раздела отключения рекламы полностью, для определенных регионов? или могу ли я за каждый просмотр рекламы получать деньги, если я ее смотрю, а стример не получает ничего?

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18. Blocking Streams with Ads Means Twitch will NEVER be Profitable

    Twitch will never be profitable with broadcast-blocking advertisements. You block the LIVE VIDEO MID BROADCAST!

    What you accomplish with this is frustrating the users or deterring them from testing the service or new streamers.

    You then ask for subs or turbo to stop the interuptions or encourage people to use third-party software to just be able to enjoy the main use of your service without missing LIVE VIDEO DURING THE LIVE BROADCAST defeating the entire purpose of the service/Twitch, the ads or the potential revenue.

    This is further exasperated by increasing the number of mid-roll ads based on chat activity and other metrics to actively interrupt high-tension moments to encourage subs or turbo.

    Therefore you get far less revenue from each ad, sub and turbo than you would from any of them otherwise such as with scaling non-intrusive ads and no pre-roll/mid-roll FULL VIDEO BLOCKING advertisements.

    Instead, you could have a mix of in-page ads, on-video ads in set spots for set games or categories or as moveable widgets for streamers. These wouldn't frustrate users nearly as much, viewers or streamers. This would improve discovery, user retention and would exponentially improve scaleable ad and subscriber revenue.

    P.S. I was here. In an ad break. Missing the moment. Getting frustrated and disengaged instead of enjoying the content and community.

    Twitch will never be profitable with broadcast-blocking advertisements. You block the LIVE VIDEO MID BROADCAST!

    What you accomplish with this is frustrating the users or deterring them from testing the service or new streamers.

    You then ask for subs or turbo to stop the interuptions or encourage people to use third-party software to just be able to enjoy the main use of your service without missing LIVE VIDEO DURING THE LIVE BROADCAST defeating the entire purpose of the service/Twitch, the ads or the potential revenue.

    This is further exasperated by increasing the number of mid-roll ads based on chat activity… more

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19. Ads on past broadcasts

    DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE WATCH ADS ON STREAMS! THAT HAVE ALREADY FINISHED!!! I don't appreciate still getting ads on past broadcasts!

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20. You can "improve the ad experience" by removing them.

    Remove them. At the very minimum, make them controlled by the content creator and NOT YOU! Leaving this platform until this is fixed. Sad.

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