I love the idea for supporting streamers with bits but frankly I don't have the money to spend on bits, so that's why I rely on the free bits from ads, but one time after watching an ad it says "Try again later" under the Watch Ad button. At first I thought "Ok. I'll just watch more tomorrow" but it still said "Try again later" and it has been like that for months so I gave up checking at this point. If you could fix this or at least ease on the time you need to wait between ads. Maybe like one or two ads a week and these ads can stack, (for example if I don't watch my two ads for one week I can watch 4 ads next week and if I don't watch those 4 ads, next week I can watch 6 ads, and so on.)
Of course the "two ads per week" is just yet another suggestion, you can tailor it to however you feel fit. I just at least want a way of knowing "Hey! I watched all my ads. I can wait until _______ to watch another one." instead of relying on what feels like random luck to watch another ad.

It's been well over a year now since Bits were introduced to Twitch, and the ability to watch ads for Bits has only been available for US viewers only. I think it's about time the rest of the world can have this feature. Twitch is never short on ads, I always see an ad play everytime my favourite streamers go live. Ads for films, sports, video games, clothes, beverages, cars, the list goes on, and with Amazon being the proud parent of Twitch, having thousands of partnered companies, I find it hard to believe that they're unable to find partnering companies to create interactive ads for this feature. Especially considering that half of the products available in the US is also in UK and Europe (such as Coca Cola and Nissan) so reusing ads is always possible. I can't see why the east countries can't watch ads for Bits, and I think it's about time we get to help support our favourite streamers financially, without having to worry about spending money we might not have access to.

I wanted to leave feedback somehow and this is the only spot I could find to do it. Just wanted to say your gaining bits by watching ads idea is awesome. Actually, your entire bit system is magical. I really hate using PayPal to donate money to streamers, it's so slow and annoying to have to open another web page just to show some appreciation. Not sure if Amazon had something to do with that process or not, but I LOVE it. I just really wanted to show my appreciation, I really hope other countries will be able to share in the watching ads for bits system soon cause I know a lot of ppl can't part with their own money (or don't have any to part with) but would totally be willing to watch ads and earn bits to give their favorite streamers. GG

I wanted to give feedback for you so here comes the idea.
People sit at your Twitch site every day. Watch a stream for hours.
with no ads. Because those people have adblock. Or something else that they do not get ads. Of course we already have a way that encourages us not to use adblock, namely Bits from short video advertising. Now come with the following idea.
Place an ad under the streamer. https://imgur.com/a/yeSqbL6 For example how I made it here. Making Twitch earn extra money. But how do you ensure that viewers do not turn on adblock? Well by giving their bits when they watch the stream. For example, get 10 bits per hour (can also be more or less). Because when they watch a stream they also see that advertisement. Which allows you to give away bits without your loss. Twitch happy by extra advertising. Viewers happy with bits that they get. Streamers happy with the bits that get a win win win situation we call that.

Ps Bits farmers can not be a problem. Set a maximum of the number of bits that can be obtained per week. Then it is solved that way.

I would like to hear from you what you think of it. Greetings Thomas

Pre-roll can be a bit of a deterrent especially for newer viewers and as an incentive for viewers to stay past the ad, I was thinking that new viewers who stay in a new stream for 3 minutes and interact with the streamer in chat will be awarded some bits, as you go from stream to stream (if you haven't found a new community to gel with) there will be continued bonuses to gather more bits and encourage viewers to interact with more streamers and also to give them an incentive to watch through ads. Not only will this benefit streamers and viewers also Twitch will gather more money from more ads being watched.

I think it's time to be transparent about why someone can or cannot earn bits through ads.

Spurred by my own account's inability to earn bits from ads since 2019, I had tested with a friend of mine in an attempt to determine the reason why she could earn bits and why I couldn't. We tested this by running the following at the exact same time:
1. Using the same computer
2. Using the same browser to log in (one window in incognito mode, and we swapped to check)
3. Watching the same stream at the exact same time
4. We also determined we are generally of the same demographic (same age, ethnicity, gender, both with accounts that have verified emails, generally followed similar people on Twitch, both active on some streamer's chats)

We both live in the United States in the same city. Yet despite our attempt to control as many variables as possible, she continues to be able to enjoy earning bits from ads, while I do not.

It needs to be explicitly clear why someone is not allowed to watch ads for bits but is denied. "Try again later" is not good enough, and support continuing to say to "check occasionally from time to time" is not good enough.