Comment on Not real... *for now*
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 18 hours agoLike one person uses them responsibly, like specifically for bathroom breaks, forces them at specific times so people don’t miss out on content.
Comment on Not real... *for now*
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 18 hours agoLike one person uses them responsibly, like specifically for bathroom breaks, forces them at specific times so people don’t miss out on content.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Twitch also requires you to do a certain number of ads per hour/amount of ad time per hour in order to hit the partnership levels for decent pay. Otherwise, IIRC, Twitch puts their own ads in and the streamer doesn’t receive any revenue from the ads.
I think Thor over at Pirate Software did a video on it back when that whole “Twitch Adpocalypse” drama was happening.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah, the issue is that if you don’t run ads, Twitch will just put their own in before your stream starts. And this absolutely kills any sort of discoverability for your channel; If new viewers have to watch 90 seconds of ads before they can even see your stream, they’ll just bail.
So for the sake of growing your channel, it’s actually better to run ads. Because then your viewers aren’t immediately blasted by a ton of unskippable ads as soon as they start your stream.