[Test] Partner / Affiliate Anniversary
At Twitch we always want to celebrate streaming milestones. To do that, we're experimenting with a feature that highlights a creator's Partner or Affiliate Anniversary!
To let you know when your anniversary is coming, we'll be sending creators notifications a few days beforehand. To help your audience know it’s your anniversary, we’ll be adding a party hat icon next to your name in the left sidebar to let your followers know about your special day. When viewers enter your channel during your anniversary, they’ll see the same party hat icon next to your name under the video player, as well as a private callout in chat prompting them to celebrate with a party hat emote. To make sure you don’t miss it, these features will be available for 24 hours both before and after your exact anniversary date. You don’t have to do anything to participate – if you're in the experiment group, just go live, and the features will automatically be available!
These features are part of a new experiment we’re running to better understand how we can help creators build visibility for events on their channel. Since it’s an experiment, keep in mind that not all of your viewers will see exactly the same features, and the experience will likely change before we fully launch it to all streamers. If you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out. We'd love to hear them.
Hey all,
Just wanted to pop in and let you know that the Streamer-versary feature is live! We would still love to know what other events or milestones would you like to celebrate on stream? Perhaps your birthday, the anniversary of your first stream ever, or your 100th stream? We’re also open to suggestions for other features you’d like to see during your Streamer-versary celebrations. Please let us know here: https://link.twitch.tv/UVStreamer-versary. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
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HarperSavage commented
I suggest a longer grace period, and maybe a rain date feature.
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andaroo commented
As a moderator for a mid-level streamer the amount of spam is incredible. I currently have 2000+ people and while we love to see new people come to the community it's nearly unmanageable. I have people blocking the emote in BTTV. Can you please disable the automated message or find a quick solution?
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Lizard_145 commented
I absolutly love this idea/new feature. Keep on with great ideas like that.
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kaiielle commented
I really LOVE this idea! I would strongly suggest giving us the ability to choose the day though. As an affiliate, I prefer to celebrate the anniversary of the day that I started streaming and not the affiliate date. I honestly feel like a good amount of affiliates do the same thing.
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Tenmar commented
I'd like to recommend that there also be this feature for account creation and if users submit said data, birthdays as well.
But most importantly, the anniversary date should be something users should be able to quickly look up at anytime. While being able to know the anniversary when the date is coming is great, being able to know and plan for it(compared to days) would be a lot more useful.
I think doing simple things like Twitter has done with balloons and such are a good idea for both the streamer and viewers.