I agree. YouTube made a mistake in requiring 1000 subscribers before a content creator could join their Partner Program. A requirement of 500 would have been more reasonable. Twitch doesn't need to follow in their footsteps.

create this can start creep and useless livestreams without content only to farm ads like YT was before block to 1k subs.

thats a weird idea. when u are so small and cant live on it anyways why would you want to monetize anyways?

would be nice to be able to run commercials when i go afk, its better than them starting at an empty chair & it supports the streamer, win win for viewers.

me parece una excelente idea, ya que nos incentivaría a crear contenido especial, distinto a los streams habituales.

if they user have copyright music it will not able to monetize or twitch make a deal with Music Companys that they will get a Share from the Revenue what twitch get :)

YES!!!

good idea.

seguimos esperando :s

While this would be nice one thing to keep in mind that copyrighted material will always be an issue. Youtube is only restrictive because of laws as far as copyright. So if Twitch does monetize uploaded videos the same thing would probably happen to them. Which would not be fun and honestly could eventually impact live streams as well.

It really would be nice but I think they'd have to find a specific way to do it.

Monetization i think is not good, because of copyrighted music and stuff for making money. It will be crashing in some lands of the world ( like germany ) but own banner below the video will be cool that you can advert a little bit below.

And if you have a copyrighted music?

+1 this is great, this would bring more creators

+1 esto es genial , esto traería mas creadores

I would love to see this implemented!

I've been long awaiting this as Youtube has restrictive policy and questionable monitization. Please give the little guys a chance. I await your decision.

I would switch from YT in a heartbeat if Twitch took this step!

If we could monetize so that people could watch an ad like on YouTube but could also donate bits, that would be great. Then small channels can move over to Twitch and when people choose to donate, they'll be using bits they got from Twitch and it helps supplement creators AND Twitch. Win-win

yeap if twitch monitizes i will move everything from youtube all my cooking videos at least

i agree us with small channels should be able to make some kind of revenue

A fantastic idea, and should be immediately implemented! Lack of monetization options is one of the few remaining advantages YouTube has over Twitch, and if Twitch added a monetization option globally for all users, we may see a surge in active content creators moving over from YouTube to Twitch.