I love the new view numbers attached to the VODs! I would love a way to transfer these view numbers to the attached highlight. As it stands now, we lose all those stats when the VOD expires. Those of us that highlight entire streams without the breaks, etc to save for future VOD watchers (for example, an entire series run of Silent Hill) have a difficult time explaining Twitch analytics to sponsors or advertisers.

If I submit analytics of EXAMPLE GAME with 1k Twitch views, 1k YouTube (uploaded 24 hours after it airs on Twitch for exclusivity), 1k podcast version, and the VODs on Twitch are deleted so only the highlights remain (with 400 views instead of the original 1000) - this does a few things:

Sponsors cannot fact check view numbers (and they do). Now they think creators have lied or inflated numbers, so we must either preemptively try to explain that Twitch deletes a video without us able to save the original (which seems very unlikely from a business standpoint) or just not include those numbers at all ultimately signalling to sponsors Twitch isn't worth as much investment as competitor platforms, when the reality is often that Twitch had more engagement and views than competitors. (1400 views + a live chat vs "only" 400 views on a highlight you can't comment on).

Basically, it's bad for all of us and I'd love some way to either attach those original view numbers to the highlight or a way to save the original VOD. Attaching the original view numbers to all highlights isn't a perfect solution because if someone only highlights a small portion of the stream, surely they don't want the entire stream's numbers, but it's the only solution I can see to help this issue. Perhaps this feature activates for highlights over an hour long?

Live vs Reruns

i think it should be made cleared when a chanel is on a rerun, it shouldn't say "LIVE"
A way that i think they could help new streamers, or lew viewercount streamers overall is to have two subcategories, Live and Reruns.
this would let streamers that are live have a chance to grow.

on the asmr category it's getting out of hands the amount of reruns, youtubecompilations and bots. and we can't do anything about it too. i've reported multiple channels but they are still there, even getting into front page. it's sad to see how the essence of t
witch is getting lost.
promoting reruns over live channels

I think it would be fantastic for video editors/highlight editors and viewers, if there was a way of locating and finding clips based on tags and keywords, on top of time periods.

Examples:
- Searching for only clips belonging to a certain tagged game the streamer has played. (Search for Escape from Tarkov, and only clips made during streams where EFT was tagged as the game being played.)
- Searching for clips that share a specific word(s) in the title. (Searching for "Triple kill" or "Jebaited" would show only clips that share at least one of the specified words.
- Being able to have more timeframes to look specifically in like "The last year" "The last three months" "The last Two weeks". I would personally consider this option not as useful or needed as the others, but still an idea that could benefit everyone.

Currently the only options available to filter through a streamer's clips are by age and a few time windows (The last 24hrs, the last week, the last month, and all time)

This really limits the viewership more clips could be receiving, and makes it harder for editors and viewers to locate specific types of clips they're after when putting together Highlight videos for a streamer and their community, or just wanting to share a specific moment.

Say I would like to make a highlight video for a streamer, capturing all of their funniest moments when playing a certain game, but this streamer plays various games, it would be great to be able to search for clips that were made when said game was tagged in the stream, rather than having to browse through every clip over months and filter them myself.

I think these ideas would prove of great use, and I know content creators would certainly appreciate them.

Please consider and thank you.

I have few ideas for improving clips management for streamers.
As channel owner and broadcaster, I find it weird that I cant rename tittle of the clips which are done by viewers.

Disable clip settings it would be better limiting to create clip permission to channel owner, editors, moderators, and VIP. Currently, the disable clip from settings is preventing even the streamer clipping in his channel.

Permit editors to go through clips also delete and rename them as well.

As streamer and long time chat moderator in Twitch, I see these would be beneficial improvements to moderators help streamers going through thousands of clips and help to remove clips with racist titles and rename them.

Most essential to invent the same kind of mute to clips as VODS for the music. I am aware this doesn't solve DCMA issue,e, but this protects twitch in the future from DMCA claims.

I recently had a GB Tetris stream get muted because the copyright bot's song IDing listed "Ikon Ringtones" as the owner of the song.

I can say with full confidence that "Ikon Ringtones" does NOT own Hirokazu Tanaka's 8-bit rendition of a Russian folk song. And that's been the problem for years - bad actors clowning around with copyright claims for video game music they don't own. Not only do establishments like "Ikon Ringtones" get away with it for using video game music as ringtone options, insignificant nobody DJs have also been known to do it when they sample music from a video game and then streamers get muted for nothing more than playing a video game.

It's high time Twitch allows us to appeal muted streams based on the supposed claimant clearly not owning the rights to the music, and puts more manual effort into identifying these bad actors and disqualifying them from further copyright claims without definitive proof that they are the owner of the copyrighted work.

A feature for creators which allows for any number of options for expiring broadcasts, namely an automatic exporting system to Youtube. In short, an option to have a VOD export to Youtube on its own. We already have the option to set the privacy of a video export to either public or private, even edit the description, so keeping that option seems reasonable.
Not to speak for everyone, but a large number of streamers have dealt with problems regarding expired broadcasts that, according to some over at Twitch, may or may not be lost to the void.
Adding this feature would minimize the number of support tickets regarding such concerns and take a huge weight off of many streamers' shoulders.

So I would like to add two new divisions of the website.

Adding past broadcasts into a separate archive and revamping the video uploads functions into a third archive (clips, highlights and uploads). All now placed into separate discoverablity sections of the website.

So at the moment everything is jumbled on the platform and user channels.

From a channel perspective it would be as simple as adding these into separate tabs, eg the about and schedule tabs.
That way you can drive more static video content creators to the platform. A rejig and rebranding of the highlights and clips features could also do that trick.
I would imagine this would start as a second place to post YouTube gaming content like achievement guides, walk-through and game reviews.

The way this would impact the main search bar is that you can categorise what content they are looking for by the meta tags on the tabs and content types. Using a red dot for live streams, a clip board for past streams and a popcorn for videos.

I think that this would be very intuitive to most users.

I am posting this to "Bugs", but it also fits into the "Accessibility" category.

There is a bug where every page of a given streamer's channel automatically autoplays mostly unrelated videos at what is usually maximum volume. Random channels will play behind/ above the UI on the page for selecting previous VODs. It will autoplay, even if I previously had the tab open and already muted and paused the video at the top. It will autoplay if I am scrolled all the way to the bottom of a streamer's archive, so that I have to scroll all the way back up to do it again. It will autoplay even if I am browsing other tabs.

I have to imagine this is a bug, because it makes navigating and enjoying Twitch incredibly difficult, tiring, and painful for a disabled person like me.

These are videos which I do not want to watch and did not click on. These are videos originally recorded at wildly varying volumes. A universal, sitewide "autoplay suggestions" bug is not welcome or needed. It makes Twitch.tv worse, on what feels like every page.