[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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PhillyWilly18_
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Regarding the new “Recently Featured Clips” section, I’m not sure I can say anything that hasn’t already been said many times, so I’ll just list my biggest personal issues with the feature to hopefully get more eyes on this addition:
1) Spoilers. I purposely avoid clips in general when new games I’m interested in come out to avoid getting spoiled, but now they’re unavoidable. In the week or so this feature has been implemented, I’ve already encountered one (thankfully) minor spoiler.
2) The live channels I follow now start halfway down my screen on the “Following” tab.
3) The same clips have been at the top for multiple days even though I purposely tried watching them hoping they’d disappear.
4) I’m sure it was implemented for a business/monetary reason, so completely removing the section (or adding an option to do so in settings) is probably out of the question, but I believe most of us would be happy with moving it under our live channels at the very least.
Ultimately, this change has made me less likely to open the Twitch app (and see the ads 😉) and start exploring and spending more time in competing live-streaming services.
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RupertEllingsworth
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Add the information for the toggle radio button to www.twitch.tv (http) cookie so the setting (On/Off) persists through visits.
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CommancheDan
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Recently features clips at the top of the following page is a terrible change. It takes the entire page and moves the desired information OFF the viewable page. It leads to spoiling game experiences. It is NOT promoting followers or interest. It is leading to unfollowing. His an anti-intuitive and obstructive change. Please remove it from thei and place it in discover.
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TheBalloonatic
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Please allow the ability to remove the recently featured clips at the top of the mobile app. When I open the app, it's to view who's currently streaming and this new feature takes up the whole home screen. I do not like it. Please.
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DragonSheet
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Please remove the recently featured video from the top of my following list. It is an eyesore and an annoyance, especially in horizontal screen view on mobile. At least give me the ability to disable it. Yikes.
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Chuckypig444
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Awful idea to have this at the top of the page and give no way to opt out of it. It takes up too much of the mobile screen. Even watching the clip doesn’t remove it. I’ve seen most people say they’re unsubscribing to streamers who use it, just to get rid of it. That’s not helping streamers at all, is it.
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OhSoJaeded
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This is a massively bad idea for the twitch mobile app. I typically don’t use mobile because it sucks anyway but for the times I have to, it’s annoying having to scroll past something I don’t even care about to find the thing I do. If I want to see clips from a specific channel, I’ll go there and use your also massively bad search clips function. How about we focus on fixing that before we add things nobody asked for? Yeah? K.
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laurathepluralized
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Please give us a way to turn this off, or to re-order the sections in the Following tab of the app. If I could put this clip section after the section containing the channels I follow that are actively streaming when I open the app, I would find it much less annoying. (Not to mention I would also love the ability to move the "Continue Watching" section to a more readily-accessible position in the Following tab as well for when I'm trying to catch up on specific long vods.)
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CaptivatingChameleon
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Please remove it, I don't use the website. I use the app exclusively. It's an eyesore it's always the same clip, it takes up an obnoxious amount of space.
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RamlethalSimp
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Please remove the **** thing or allow me to turn it off. I'm tired of seeing the same **** clip everytime I open the app.
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LukeNeverShaves
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Suggestion. Make it opt in, not opt out. Dont force something onto viewers because you think its something they want to see. I dont need to see a featured clip from someone I follow and sub to. It doesnt make me want to click it. It makes me want to download a hacked version of your app to take it away or rollback to a previous version. Ive already disabled auto update because of how terrible it is.
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CallMe_Jax
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Allow me to disable it. I don't care for it and don't want 40% of my screen populated by the same clip every day
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cochesecg
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one of the worst additions to the app
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wrath0r
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This feature on mobile should be the same size as other carousels in the app. Instead, I get a single thumbnail so big I can see the pores on the steamer's forehead. It's very intrusive.
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NekoKonekoSan
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Please allow me to opt out of this feature or move it off the following tab on the mobile app. I don't use the mobile app to watch clips and having it front and center everytime I want to watch a stream is frustrating. It isn't helping me discover anyone as it's showing clips for people I already follow as well. And if it did show random clips of people I don't watch, I'd uninstall in a heartbeat. 0/10 feature for users and is hurting creators currently as the only way to remove it is to unfollow streamers who are using it.
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CautionKate
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Please provide an option to change the layout on the frontpage of the channel. I'm not happy about the new one, where the featured clips replace the recent streams/VODs. To have it as an Add-On to the former layout would be a better solution. I'd like to have control over what appears on my channel's frontpage and to place it where I like it best.
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a_k_a_emily
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Please remove this to a different feed or preferably have an opt-in option. On mobile this takes up the majority of the Home Screen. It’s frustrating and annoying, and I’m more likely to unfollow anyone whose clips are featured in order to remove them.
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FraserK
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Please provide an option to hide the recently featured clips shelf from the top of the following tab on mobile.
I want the live channels at the top and I’m not interested in seeing clips.
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grapevinee
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Loving this feature but struggling to engage with the analytics. Currently I can see views of all my clips by day, but I have no way to know which of my clips are trending to be able to actually do something with that. Some sort of panel, either on the creator homepage or in my engagement tab, should tell me which clips are doing well.
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Proud_Tiger
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Twitch,
please allow us, the users, to deactivate this „feature“. I want to have my channels on the top and I don‘t viewed clips at all in the past and won‘t do it in the future.
You absolutely made the user experience much worser by forcing this „feature“ in our faces, even some of us don‘t need it at all.