Analytics can be really useful to improve yourself as a streamer.
So it is good that Twitch offers streamers the Channel Analytics.
But what's missing is the information about how to evaluate the data?
I mean like it would be very helpful to know the correlations and causalities of the data categories.
You have all the data it needs to research this and maybe you already did, so please publish such information somewhere content creators have access to.
Especially small streamers don't get that many data so that they could research it on their own.
If there are correlations and causalities then you could display them in a line diagram.
Or for example there correlation between revenue and average viewers and also the causality that more average viewers cause more revenue, then you could add the category revenue per average viewer.
Also import are data like how many of the people who saw my streams on the Browse Page did click in %.
This helps to see how good the title or the stream scene are.

My advise is take a look on youtube, their analytics are great and they also have a youtube channel ("Creator Insider") where they explain the analytics and how to evaluate them, they also explain how things like their recommendation system works, give advise to content creators based on their collected data and more.
Hope this feedback helps.

There is definitely misleading information regarding money accrued towards a payout within the Creator Dashboard, and making that information accurate is very important to retain the trust and good will of the streamers that are the entire reason Twitch makes money.

I was told I was 41 cents short of a payout, despite my Creator Dashboard showing a total of $108 since my last payout on April 13, 2021, yet I'm being forced to wait an entire extra month to get paid because of some bureaucratic staunchness designed to keep Bezos' wallet fat while people such as myself, who need that money for basic living expenses, are made to wait and wait and wait.

There NEEDS to be more transparency with the payout system and what is shown in the Creator Dashboard. And if someone makes their payout threshold, they should also be PAID OUT IMMEDIATELY. It's not like it's impossible from a technical standpoint.

Most of us on this platform ain't Dr. Disrespect or Maximilian Dood. We need every cent we can get. Y'all need to show equal love to your small streamers as you do to your big-name streamers.

Currently we receive an email that reads something akin to "This month, the magical Squirrel has bestowed unto you ...€"

I'd like to see something like this:
T1 subs (US) - x - ..$
T1 subs (UK) - x - .£
exchange rate £ to $:
T1 subs (SVK) - x - ..€
T2 subs (SVK) - x - .€
exchange rate € to $:
T1 subs (CZE) - x - ...CZK
T3 subs (CZE) - x - ..CZK
exchange rate CZK to $:
exchange fee - -....$
bits - ...$
pre-roll ads - ..$
mid-roll ads - ..$
Prime subs- 0$
You need $100+ in Prime revenue for payout.
Transfer fee - PartnerHype - -0$
Exchange rate $ to €:
Forced payout exchange fee $ to € - -....$
Grand total sent - ....€

I believe transparency is the very basis of any respectable company and I still don't understand why all Twitch provides are 'rough estimates' hidden within its UI.

As things stand, I receive under 20% of my income via Twitch and I'm pushing with my community hard to get this as close to 0 as only possible.

Currenty when I want to see the number of viewers my stream had at any given time I have to click on the statistics in my creator dashboard and for further examination of why a spike (or a dip) in viewership could possibly have occured I then have to click on the specific point in time which takes me to my VOD.

It would be so much easier to improve my own content if I just had the same red guy with a number next to it as on my live streams. It does not have to be 100% accurate, because it also isn't when I'm live. But it would make reflecting on my own streams so much easier.

It would make checking one's own progress way more accessible in my opinion. Then for more detailed analysis the current solution in the dashboard of course still had its value.

Affiliates and Partners should have access to a clear description of how much they have earned within a payment period (not up until the current date) . As it is, the payout portal only lists if you have hit the threshold for payout ("$100+") and does not clearly state how much will be paid out to the streamer. RE: "The revenue dashboard on the Channel Analytics page is an estimate and not a final settlement for payout": there should be a final settlement statement before payouts are made. Creators deserve clear insights into their earnings, and not estimates and random numbers spread through the month. We shouldn't have to guess, adjust calendars or calculate our own earnings. The algorithm and data it in the system, it simply needs to be reformatted for clearer statements to allow Streamers to better understand and track their earnings.

Twitch's metrics haven't progressed greatly and are sorely lacking updates.

The following should be available as a gold standard:

• Live Views (*currently available)
• VOD views of archives (doesn't seem to exist in data export; or is rolled up into somewhere? What happens when the VOD archive gets deleted?)
• VOD Views of created clips (*currently available)
• Average View Duration (avg. mins watched per unique viewer)
• Data Export of Views by Platforms (Views by Web, Console, iOS, etc.)

Nice-to-Haves:

• Followers Gained / Followers Lost
• Live Views by Non-Followers
• Live Views by Followers (and possibly even Subscribers)
• Impressions (Auto-Play directory, Auto-Play frontpage where no sound or clickthrough)
• Impressions CTR (how many people are clicking you when seen in a directory)
• Ad Dropoff/Exits (Unique Viewers or similar who exit during an ad-server-provided ad)

And Don't Forget:

• Trending: Daily What Categories Do My Viewers Watch (not weekly). The example is, if a massive Early Access game trends (e.g. Among Us). Within 24 hours we should see if our viewers have been watching a major trend. Waiting 7 days for minimal data is not that helpful with how fast things move.

Twitch has removed "Live Views" because it was inaccurate. It was effectively website page views, without mobile, TV apps, etc. https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/stream-manager?language=en_US#stats

It likely should not have been an estimate of "live views" for so long. So, it's good it's being removed.

However, there's no commentary or explanation on why we do not have intelligent video view metrics in its place. Video views tracking (normally a tracker placed into a video after potential ads) has been around for over a decade. And there have been tons of advancements.

We should have a minimum, intelligent video view stat to understand how many TIMES our content was watched or reloaded. This is bare minimum stat that all streamers need.

Yes, live views are different than VOD views. We should see both clearly. But to not even have Live Views is severely lacking. None of the following suggested are a remotely reasonable replacement: average viewers, minutes watched, follows, and unique chatters.

Follows has nothing to do with viewership. Chatters is a solid engagement metric, but represents a vocal minority; again, nothing to do with total eyeballs.

Average viewers does not tell you how many people are joining and leaving -- especially by the amount of hours you stream (although it of course represents general growth). Worse, these numbers are easily cluttered by raids data.

In sum, Twitch Partners and Affiliates who are trying to understand how their streams are viewed in total and monetized have very little way of measuring this. We at least need to know why Twitch can't provide this info, and what it's doing about metrics in general to give us more insights.

As it stands, Twitch's metrics haven't progressed greatly and are sorely lacking updates.

The following should be available as a gold standard:

• Live Views
• VOD views of archives and clips
• Average View Duration (avg. mins watched per unique viewer)

Nice-to-Haves:

• Impressions (Auto-Play directory, Auto-Play frontpage where no sound or clickthrough)
• Impressions CTR (how many people are clicking you when seen in a directory)
• Ad Dropoff/Exists (Unique Viewers or similar who exit during an ad-server-provided ad)

And Don't Forget:

• Daily What Categories Do My Viewers Watch (not weekly). The example is, if a massive Early Access game trends (e.g. Among Us). Within 24 hours we should see if our viewers have been watching a major trend. Waiting 7 days for minimal data on this is barely helpful.

If you use reruns you will mess up your concurrent view count.

I'd like to have my view count stats from my livestreams separated from the reruns stats. You guys mix the view count from lives + reruns so the information ends up being unreliable. For those who are getting sponsorships it can become a huge problem. I never realized this until a brand told me what my official concurrent view count was. Seems like external websites have access to that information and post it publicly but the problem is that it's not accurate info. My reruns might have 8 people but my lives have 50... Unfortunately you guys mix these two and I end up with a really low number that doesn't represent my audience at all. It would be great to have concurrent viewers for livestreams VS concurrent viewers for reruns.