Putting the TV into twitch.TV

This is probably an unreasonable feature but would be fun. Allow an offline sub only stream or possible completely publicly viewable with ads. Instead of VOD's or Re-runs the streamer could program television or movies from the prime video library. It is very similar to the watch parties however the stream could program a marathon of their favorite show. The best part about shows is they have natural ad breaks. This is interesting because it could be an actual television channel. Giving another avenue of free expression. Similarly the channel could program music for an offline playlist from the library of amazon music like a radio station. Obviously there is so much that goes into licensing and copyright but imagine twitch was just another streaming platform but the programming is dictated by the users.

Making highlights effortless.

-A streamer has an epic gamer moment.
-Lots of viewers clip that section during the stream.
-Twitch automatically creates a 30 second highlight of that section of the stream based on how many people clipped it.
-The streamer can set the threshold of clips to create a highlight (Eg:minimum 20 clips within 10 seconds to create a highlight) or disable it completely.
-highlight shows up on the streamer’s channel page.
-The streamer can go back and edit the highlight to be longer or shorter depending on what they want to show in the highlight. They can also remove it.
-To prevent abusing clips and highlighting the entire stream, the streamer can put a cooldown timer on how often viewers can clip their stream per viewer. (Eg viewer makes a clip, has to wait 10 minutes until they can clip again)

Highlight section on the front page of twitch.

-Have a section on the front page of twitch for popular / following / recommended highlights parallel to the live channels / categories section.
-Popularity of highlight is based on how many people clipped that section of the stream / how many views it gets over time.
-Treat it similar to the trending tab on youtube or hot on reddit.
-Also have a section for highlights from streamers you follow (like the sub box on youtube) and for recommended highlights.
-“Clips we think you’ll like” section would become the recommended highlights section.
-Be able to sort highlights like reddit posts (Eg: sort by hot / top of hour, day, week, new, ect.)

Saving clips overhaul.

-Viewer makes a clip.
-Clip gets saved to their channel under “my clips” section.
-Make it front and center.
-Current clip system is kinda bad because you have to go digging through your creator dashboard to find clips.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

We appreciate that Twitch is primarily a gaming platform which delivers strong, repeating revenue streams and justifies the high valuation for the business.
Your infrastructure allows for musicians/DJs/live acts to broadcast and permit multiple acts from all over the world to participate on one channel using one stream key - it's works brilliantly (even on the free version) and suits the purpose of what so many people globally are doing right now. However, copyright issues on replaying the recorded copy that Twitch makes available for 14 days (60 on Prime). This creates headaches and annoyance for many of the users who are not gamers and use your service for music broadcast only. My suggestion is to look closely at the Mixcloud Live Beta concept closely and perhaps produce a break out version of the current product on a subscription paid basis where you negotiate an agreement where artists are being paid similar to Mixcloud Live and you won't have to mute pieces of DJ's sets or cause them headaches. As a commercial director of a successful revenue growth generating company you will discover a whole new revenue stream open up to you.

I have many other ideas on how Twitch can capture significant revenues by carving out a product more focused and targeted for those in music industry and would be open to discussing these with a potential view to working directly with you.

Thanks