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Applications for The Streamer Awards 2026 are now OPEN!
For the first time ever, you can apply to be celebrated at the show without a nomination. Applications are open until Oct. 2, so any content you create between now and then is fair game.
Don’t miss your shot to be recognized as one of the best creators of the year!
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To support creators covering the Grand Theft Auto Extended Look, the GTA VI game category will be enabled on Twitch until 9PM PT.
Remember to abide by all Rockstar Games and Netflix policies and requirements!
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I love when restaurants put “market price” next to certain menu items. Like yeah, I’ve been monitoring scallop futures all week.
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I think both things can be true.
For smaller streamers, the revenue from ads is often modest, so running midrolls is frequently more about avoiding prerolls than maximizing earnings. As streamers get larger, ad revenue becomes much more meaningful.
That's why I don't think it's as simple as "prerolls bad, midrolls good." Running 3 minutes of midrolls per hour (8-12 ads) isn't always a better experience than having a viewer watch 1-2 prerolls and then enjoy an uninterrupted session. This was my point in the interview.
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There has been a lot of discussion and questions from the Twitch community recently — about viewbotting, discovery, and more. I will be going live on Thursday at 4pm PDT from my channel twitch.tv/djclancy to talk about some of these issues and answer questions.
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Calling all Roblox creators ‼️
Who is going to @TwitchCon Rotterdam? Lmk below or tag someone you know going.
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A number of streamers have suggested that embeds are the primary viewbot vector. While this is an attack vector we monitor, embeds only account for 0.37% of total hours watched on Twitch and are not the primary source of the problem today. We have policies around embed usage and actively detect and take action against sites that violate them and will continue looking at ways to address this attack vector.
The more I see the public discourse on this the less it all makes sense.
If Twitch can identify viewbots through historical data then why can't they strip only viewbots instead of just apply an arbitrary cap on views overall?
It's because they can't.
The viewbots people use today are primarily done through embedded traffic on third party sites. Distributed over many different areas and routed back to the channel. That means it's real people, real traffic, and real websites but the stream is in the corner as an ad or hidden as a single pixel. This still counts as a viewer and inflates the channels numbers.
The view capping they are planning doesn't actually fix the issue and it will likely paint targets on streamers backs. If someone gets capped it will be seen as "proof" of view botting even if it was someone else trying to hit that streamer. We already see tons of people using third party browser plugins and starting witch hunts over flimsy data thinking viewers are bots. This just makes it "official".
The real issue here is embeds over anything else. If you want to do actual damage to view botting then kill off embeds and shift everything back to user traffic in-site. From there you can actually fight this behavior instead of using blanket methods like this.
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📢 @Roblox meets Rivals. Who’s in?
📍 @RobloxBattles on Twitch Rivals
🗓️ Dec 17, 3pm PT
📺 /TwitchRivals
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A quick update on viewcounts. We have teams and tech dedicated to ensuring that the views that show up on channels reflect actual viewership, and aren’t artificially inflated in any way. Ultimately, metrics on Twitch should represent the real and growing communities that show up and participate on channels, so we regularly update detection tools and methods.
We recently made changes that meaningfully improved our ability to identify viewbots, inauthentic viewership, and other potentially fake engagement. These changes will roll out over the next few weeks.
So, if your channel was viewbotted, or if some of your viewers are artificial or inflated, you will see an impact to your channel’s viewcount. This also means that third party sites that publish unverified Twitch viewcounts are going to see changes to that data over time.
We recognize that viewbotting can be out of the streamer’s control. In making these changes, our goal is to improve the experiences for both streamers and viewers.
