[Feature] Featured Clips
Featured Clips help you show up on new and existing Twitch discovery spaces in ways that best represent you and your community. We recently shared our plans (https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/07/08/everything-we-announced-at-twitchcon-paris/) to launch the upcoming mobile Discovery Feed. As we work towards building new onsite discovery tools like the Discovery Feed, we want to give you more control over which Clips are shown to viewers on Twitch with Featured Clips.
We're already working on improvements to Featured Clips, including:
- Allowing you to opt-in to automatically featuring Clips created by you or your editors.
- Giving Featured Clips access to Mods and other trusted members of your community.
- Adding the ability to feature Clips from the Clip creation flow, the Clip editor, and on mobile.
- Adding more Featured Clips analytics.
We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to improve this feature.
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shlamitt
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This section is a horrible addition to my following section. It is intrusive and makes me less engaged to use the app.
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Inouji
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I'd love to be able to feature my own uploaded Clips.
I edit my Clips locally on my PC to use them on other platforms, so having a way to use these videos (that I can already upload, just not feature) instead of the basic, unedited Clips me or my viewers can make on Twitch, would help massively in making sure there is high quality content not just on my Channel, but also on the upcoming Discovery Feed.
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Apersondude1
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This section is too large and intrusive. I'm on twitch to watch live streams from my followed channel, and nothing else.
Also there is a bug with this section where, at least on mobile, there is no way to dismiss or hide the featured clip from this section. The three dots do nothing when pressed.
Please provide a way to hide this section entirely, or at least push it down below live broadcasts.
Also, your feedback form is obnoxious. I typed this comment out, then was forced to login to actually submit it, and the redirect ate my comment forcing me to retype it out on mobile.
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ChillWithAnne
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I think the section in the following tab is too big/takes up too much space, but hopefully when the discovery feed button comes out, it’ll be placed in there.
So other feedback I hear a lot is the featured clips on someone’s clip page….. don’t HIDE the other clips behind a button click…. You can spotlight the ones the streamer wants to feature, but please keep the other clips below that instead of having to turn off featured clips… people still like to see other clips even if they weren’t feature-worthy according to the streamer (due to various reasons). Especially if a viewer clips something and nobody else is able to find it easily, just gives them less motivation to clip, and isn’t the idea they know what they want to see and is a good/funny/awesome moment during that time?
Just let people see ALL clips, but keep featured clips at the top as some spotlight!!!!!!!! -
GorTexX
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please add a way to move it up or down on the main page...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/15m31ve/any_way_to_turn_off_recently_featured_clips_on/
a lot of people are just Unfollowing creators to get rid of it for now.. which is hurting creators not helping..
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jamonitMack
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We should have the option to default to Featured Clips Only OFF on our own clips page.
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HiddenNemo
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To add my vote against it... Remove 'Featured Clips' from Following, let me disable/hide it, and don't do something like that again in the future. It takes over the entire first visible area of the screen on mobile when going to the 'Following' page.
I just want to see who's live so I can watch their current live stream, not the one or two clips 'featured' that just sit there. (At least as of today Aug 18 though it's no longer appearing on the top of the Following page anymore) -
LinuxBrickie
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The thumbnails for featured clips are taking up an area larger than the entire screen on Android tablet. This means the "only* thing I see when I start up the Twitch app is (part of) a grainy image of a clip I couldn't care less about. I now have to scroll down every single time just to get to the list of live streams (whose thumbnails are all the correct size).
This does not seem to be the case on phone, only tablet.
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djphatmike13
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The recent update that displays the “Recently Featured Clips” was good in its intention but has very poor placement in the mobile app. If anything, it has made me unfollow the streamers that has taken advantage and posted clips to be featured. That feature takes away real estate from the items I wish to view. So, if it a feature that is planning to stick around, at least give the viewers the option to enable/disable.
Me being a small streamer with a small community, I would like people to stop by and check out the stream. And I get that this is supposed to help with that but not if it interferes with the viewers viewing experience.
Allow the viewers to have the option.
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Jinxxxy
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Having the Featured Clips at the top of the Following page on the app is terrible. I would prefer to see who I'm following first and recommend channels second. On mobile it takes up half of the screen and on my tablet, it literally takes up the entire screen. Please let us remove it completely from our settings, have a disable toggle of some sort or, at the very least, have it show on the very bottom of the page.
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Ted_Sheckler
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Please let me turn this off on the app. It’s actually awful and takes up way too much of the screen. Also please fire whoever thought this was a good idea. Thanks.
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RegaliaOfChaos
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At minimum have a shelf of different clips and not just the same one sitting there for weeks on end on my following page. Or just let me turn this feature off. It has the potential to be valuable to twitch but how it's currently implemented is garbage.
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ulzimate
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Add an option to disable this because this just takes way too much screen space for no reason. It's awful. Please remove it by default, actually.
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AgentDave7
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Please add "I am not interested in this recommendation" for Featured Clips that are used in Discovery shelves.
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AgentDave7
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As others have mentioned, I also see the same Featured Clip since the launch of the feature. I'm guessing that's because it's not being used a lot by the Streamers I follow.
I've used the feature a couple times myself, but I don't think it's a "most use" feature in regards to Discovery - unless Analytics will show where Views came from. I'm looking forward to seeing those stats, and I appreciate having access to them early on to see if/how a new feature is beneficial to my channel.
In a category without anyone streaming, having Featured Clips prominently displayed there makes a lot of sense to build anticipation for the next time someone is live.
Especially on mobile, once a Featured Clip has already been viewed, and there isn't any new Featured Clips, I'd prefer the section to be hidden - otherwise it's just irritating. I hope no one unfollows me if they get irritated by seeing my clip(s) featured, and never going away. I'd rather everyone has the option to hide the section if they simply aren't interested in Featured Clips.
Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of Clips because the Clips page is rather disorganized and it took me 10-15 minutes during a stream to make a good clip (I was too late, and had to go back to the live VOD to attempt again and again to get the entire moment captured in one Clip).
I really like the ability to Feature Clips. It's a step in the right direction. How they're featured outside of a Streamer's page needs to be adjusted.
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AgentDave7
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As others have mentioned, the Discovery Feed takes up too much space on the Following tab on mobile devices. Using my tablet in landscape mode, it takes up the entire screen. I want to see who's live that I'm following first. I'd prefer the Featured Clips to be moved under the currently live section.
On Desktop, I really like that Featured Clips are more prominently displayed on the Streamer's page. On the Clips tab, rather than hiding all non-Featured Clips could there be an option to have Shelves/Collections just like VODs/Highlights? (Maybe this should be a seperate UserVoice).
Top spot of the page tells me: "You don't want to miss this." Will Stories be combined with Featured Clips as part of the Discovery Feed once Stories are launched, or separate? I am a lot more interested with Stories being at the top of the following page. Those will build anticipation for current or future events - which Clips rarely do. Featured Clips could be "filler" at the end.
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toastiscrunchy
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Let me turn this feature off on my mobile app. I've add the same meaningless "featured clip" at the top of my following list taking up almost half the app and pushing my live channels down the page for ages now. This is so dumb and annoying. Who approved this?
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MaxThe2nd
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Remove the recently featured clips at the top of the Home Screen on the mobile app. It takes up too much space. If I wanted to see clips, I’d search for them. When I use twitch I want to see who’s live. Not some clip I don’t care about (I wasn’t looking for it)
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Shadow_Blackmare
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Small streamers don't get many viewers that come in a stream and take clips for them, so they use a command or take highlights. Allow stream to us the "clips I created" to be featured and be able to be used as channel trailers.
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CrossGraves
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No one comes to twitch for clips. There is no reason to have featured clips at the top taking up the majority of the screen on the mobile app. I have to scroll to find out who's online. This needs to be removable.