When I use twitch as a viewer I will occasionally click on a stream I don’t usually watch and almost immediately regret it when I get bombarded with ads that no one cares to watch. It’s one thing when I know the streamer and know it’s worth waiting for but I don’t care to watch all that junk to find out if I actually want to watch this stream so I stick with the streamers I know. As I streamer I have to say I don’t think I’m the only viewer that acts like that and it sucks for discoverability. If there was like a picture in picture thing or banners or something so I could actually view the stream I clicked on at the same time I might be more inclined to stick around long enough to see if this is something I want to watch.
It’s like channel surfing on the tv. If you click on a channel and they’re currently running ads you click on to the next channel. You don’t watch 10 minutes of ads just to find out what’s playing on that channel.

Give us the option to completely disable ads by "paying" you for the loss through taking a bit more of the revenue.

In my channel analysis ad income is less than 2% of the overall income, but (especially) pre rolls extremely reduced channel growth - which obviously would have raised my channel income much more than thos 2% for ads.

The numbers may vary from channel to channel, which is the reason to make it optional:
- No money loss for Twitch.
- Every streamer can decide for themselves, which is the best option.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

What I would like to see is people who hold multiple concurrent subscriptions, say 4 or 5 and up, to be allowed to have a site-wide advertisement-free experience.

Currently Turbo is the only option for an ad-free experience site-wide. Prime used to have it, but it was removed as a benefit for Prime (even though Prime costs more). Personally I find Turbo to be very unappealing for its cost, especially when I already have Prime which comes with most of its other perks.

I'd rather spend that money unlocking emotes in other streamer's channels as I feel it makes me more connected to the community of those streamers. I'm sure others may have similar reasons for getting individual subscriptions over Turbo.

I don't see why people with this many, or even a dozen or more subs, have to endure ads on the site when they provide enough money to Twitch as it is. They shouldn't have to make a choice between subscribing to more channels or getting Turbo, in my opinion. Especially with how little the ad revenue helps channels in comparison.

This would also help with subscription numbers for smaller channels, as people will be more willing to subscribe to multiple channels to unlock an ad-free experience, or be putting the money they would otherwise spend on Turbo towards more subscriptions.

currently you have ads playing in the main screen taking over volume as well as preventing people from hearing the stream while you push the stream into a small player above chat without sound. for many games this makes it impossible to keep up with whats going on especially with the random timing you've now introduced into the ad plays now that its out of the control of the streamer.

if you could swap the ad and the mini stream and not force the ads volume to mute the stream the ad could play effortlessly without really bothering anyone especially if the option to mute ads was there. the ad would still be played for all viewers without ruining the viewing experience for the viewers of the stream.

i cant count how many times ive been watching streams lately(especially in among us streams) where the ad randomly pops up in the middle of important talking/action and prevents me from knowing whats going on for 30+ seconds while i come back to a game thats now progressed past my knowledge and have to play guess what to try to figure it out.

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.

In a tweet today Twitch Support stated "Thank you for all of your feedback. We have completed the mid-roll ads test. Ads are an essential part of keeping Twitch freely available and we understand your concerns. We'll continue to work on ways to improve the viewer ad experience and give streamers more control."

Please do more to communicate that the concerns of broadcasters and viewers were understood.

I am interested in what Twitch learned from the testing of mid-roll ads. What concerns did you notice trending and what feedback specifically are you accounting for in making "improvements" to advertising on the platform. Will Twitch make adjustments to their testing process, such as smaller batch size (e.g. Twitch Ambassadors)?

Some transparency on implementation of a site mechanic that can (and did) have extremely damaging results on viewership for broadcaster is vital to our ability to plan and implement content around these changes. Thank you.