Especially the "Meica Flashking Ad" here in Germany is really driving me crazy. It's a cool idea, and I even looked it up manually only seeing this campaign is already 2 years old. Why run ads with that?
But the real problem is, I only get THAT ad, I must have watched it at least a 100 times already, it keeps coming up.
When I finally decided which channel to stick by and give them the 15 second ad revenue, I am briefly excited to watch the streamer. But that does not last very long because 5 minutes into the stream the ad comes up AGAIN. I then close Twitch because I'm so frustrated.

When will Twitch realize its creators are producing LIVE content and stream ads are so disruptive when you miss 15 to 30 seconds of it.
I truly understand this business runs off of ads - but trust me, I wouldn't write here if the current situation was anywhere near acceptable.
Here's my suggestions:
- Run banner ads
- Run small overlay ads (as YouTube does)
- Run pip ads like in television where the streamer content shrinks a bit and then there's ads on the side

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!

Hello! This is great! Glad you guys are able to offer this to streamers! So, some ideas I have or feedback to say is that there are streamers like myself that have streamed for 200+ hours! We love gaming, love our community so we will stream for long periods of time. So 40 hours I feel is kinda low. I know this is just a starting point, but i feel that if you gave more higher options people would do it! Also if you could include on the dashboard if we need to require a certain amount of concurrent viewers for us to get paid out the said amount. I know in the past I've seen some sponsorships etc. require a certain amount of CCV. Now, if this doesnt require that, Great! But, if it does can we be let know of that. Also maybe if we maintain a higher CCV we are able to get more revenue added onto it as well. I don't want it to be only about CCV but I know that companies want there products to be seen and if they find out only one person is watching the stream and they are paying extra for it they may want to backout of this program. All just thoughts on this. BUT this program is awesome and I can't wait to be apart of it soon if it gets rolled out to more people so thanks for working on this!

Hello Twitch Support,
Over the last couple of days i've been receiving 6 to 8 20-30 sec ads every half hour, which means that roughly 10% of what I watch on Twitch is ads. To make matters even worse ALL of the ads are from the US and im from South America so I can't buy what you are trying to sell, which means that not only it is an unpleasant experience (which makes me wonder if I somehow made Jeff Bezos angry or something) for me but a waste of money for the companies that are paying the ads.
So to answer the question "How can we improve the ad experience?", less ads or at least shorter ones would be nice. If that is too much to ask, at least make it so that the ads are useful in my continent (or my country for that matter).

Recently your advertiser "Turbo Tax" has been advertising on your platform with an ad featuring a man spitting on another man with a protracted image of the man being spit on and the spit all over his face. It's disgusting enough behavior but it features the two men being of different races, thus adding a racial element. It is my understanding that TWITCH is against racial antagonism, baiting, agitation and fomenting of degrading opinions toward any people or races as well as generally degrading content. Is there any doubt that TWITCH would have a not allowed this ad if it had featured a white person spitting on a black person? Is TWITCH more tolerant of degrading conduct directed at white people? I think that if TWITCH expects to be treated as a professional company with professional standards it has to disallow accepting any ads with such depictions on its platform. Certainly allowing ads or content like this opens the door for more of it and disallows the argument that you have no tolerance toward this sort of behavior depicted on your platform. Personally, I am honestly at a loss to understand how this ad ever got on your platform or how you expected it not to generate a dislike toward your company for allowing it.

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.