If interaction breaks, momentum dies. There are dozens of ways to keep the momentum flowing while an ad is playing-- just look at all of the YouTubers who get sponsored and do skits/product placement during their videos.

Example: If the streamer has the ability to temporarily defer ads and play them back to back, ("collecting" an ad every 15 mins or so, to play 6 at the end of 1.5 hours,) this gives the streamer more control on when their intended content is interrupted-- or, even better, an option to play the ads FIRST in order to unlock SUBSTANTIAL ad-free time, with a timer to your next unlock.

How to not break momentum during those collected ads? Don't mute the stream! The streamer hits "play" on the ads when they are ready, and the streamer can INTERACT with the viewers during the ads. This could mean picture-in-picture, or it could be a visual ad while the streamer is sound-only for commentary on that ad.

Above all else, do not allow ads to be punishing. Make them part of the experience, and the STREAMER controls that experience.

If you guys used the same logic for bounty board on ads you could have a much easier time getting us to run them. I used to make hundreds a month in 2011 from ads and now despite growing etc etc I only push viewers away spamming them for MAYBE a few bucks if I'm lucky.

Myself and many others would likely be more happy to run ads if we had a target goal of "ad hours per month" that based on our viewership could fluctuate but would generally give us a target.

Example: Currently I stream 5ish hours a day, if you wanted 10 minutes of ads every hour and could guarentee I make even 20 bucks from the stream I would happily do it (as this would turn into 250+ revenue for the month minimum for me). As is, you will never get me to push my viewers away so I can make 5 extra dollars for the whole month.

Give better CPM rates or make deals with us, this is the only good solution.

ADS should not be on live streams, only on VODs!

From my understanding ADS on live will give you one of the following drawbacks, If an AD plays for 10 seconds:

• you will be sent back to the current moment the stream is at thus losing 10 seconds of the live stream and what happened in that meantime be it a answer to your message, some epic moment or anything in between.

• you will be 10 seconds behind with the live stream, meaning you are also 10 seconds behind interacting with the streamer

Thus I am requesting the ADs to be kept with VODs only!

It would be AWESOME if you could give streamers the ability to give Streamers the ability to roll a few ads, and at the end of the ads gift out varying size Bit gifts. It would be a great way for streamers to give back and also potentially receive a kick back from bits won. Viewers/followers and subscribers could have different gifts available based on the tier they are in, and I really think it could be a fun way to engage/reward and grow back some of the loss felt from the bits for ads program that ended.
Thank you for your consideration and efforts!

As a streamer, it is incredibly frustrating to be in the dark about when ads are being run. Please add a feature to the stream manager that includes a countdown when the ads are running so that streamers can see both when they are being run and how much time left until they are finished. As it is, I have to rely either on my chat or have an incognito window up (which takes up valuable monitor space) just to be aware of when ads are running because they are not perfectly consistent with the schedule set in the ad manager.

This feature request that I'm sharing is that Twitch should make a program for Twitch streamers to promote their channel. Instead of regular ads on the time, you get Twitch streamers. To order to get an ad, the streamer has to pay once a month to order to get their introduction ads out there. This feature should be open for every streamer, affiliate, or partner. Big or small. This Twitch streamer could be used ad banners or a normal 15-30 sec ad. The Twitch streamer has to introduce themselves, what type of content they do, show quick glimpses of their content and their community. I think this will help Twitch streamers to grow more on the platform. They will also have more self-control as well. Let me know what you think.

This happens multiple times a week: I am ending my show. I am the performer but I want to choose somewhere to raid smoothly, as a gift to my community and to the streamer. I have 20-120 viewers, so I want to make it count.

I click around to my followed channels to check out what each one is doing. Perhaps a music stream is playing games. Perhaps a vintage stream is doing a special event techno set. It's important for me to listen to what 2-8 channels are like as I am simultaneously keeping my audience engaged.

But it's very frustrating when most of the channels I open in tabs play ads. I'm trying to pay attention to my performance. I don't want the loud commercial audible in my stream. The bright flashing animations light up my face. And I have to wait maybe a minute or so while I'm performing, so I can go listen. It takes a lot longer than it should.

Not only am I looking for a suitable vibe, I'm also hoping to find a smaller channel to gift an audience to. It is such a delight to cheer up a streamer with sweet new friends! This is also not very easy to do.

I know there's some kind of cookie where no ads are shown if you just saw one. And in theory, no ads show when raiding. Though I know that's a bit buggy. So it would be great to have the same grace period if you have been streaming successfully, with an audience, and you are still currently streaming as you browse.

Thank you!

Give mods and streamer ability to give specific users an ad break.

Limit it only to three times before real ban.

Reasoning:
sometimes users will say dumb stuff in chat and/or something offensive instead of banning (which just causes user to make a new account or wait etc) make them watch an ad. Can be a minor punishment. And also can be a reward to spend channel points on. Give another user an ad break could be fun.

However this will make channels toxic in some cases so maybe have it as a feature toggle that a streamer can enable on their channel at will. Also could result in worse chats if they think they can get away with something. Probably better to make an a/b testing for streamers to try out and see if community is less or more toxic.

I like the idea they have of sound ads

Although if I must suggest something that you may already have in mind, it is that each streamer will do well with one or another type of ads. Someone who is important is his game or what is seen will love the announcements of sounds like the one they are making. But someone whose audio is the important thing, continues to be bothered by the current type of announcements and the sound ones, for these people they will need announcements that cover a part of the screen but do not mute the subject's audio...

The simplest idea is that the subject can decide what ad to put in their entire stream but if they like to make it more complete, they could make the streamer can confugure the ads but create exceptions in certain categories, for example, that can activate the audio ads but when you are in just chatting, advertisements are placed on the screen without obscuring your audio