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I haven't looked in a while but that was always the broadcasters decision (I think with the exception of preroll, they might not have control of that)
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Malakriss
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I watch hafu's stream to test because her viewership is high thousands so midstreams will trigger + she's contractually obligated to manually play them. With the latest dev builds I have gotten zero prerolls in the last 2 days, hafu's manually triggered ones do not show at all for me (but chat complains about 8 or 9 ads), and I only get the twitch midstream attempts to play 2x 15sec ads. But the actual ads don't play all they did was replace the "Commercial Break in progress" default screen with the 3rd party one.
Once they learn to nix the default screen it's back to giving the middle finger to twitch and watching the way it should be.
Once they learn to nix the default screen it's back to giving the middle finger to twitch and watching the way it should be.
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Also one of the biggest things with Twitch is that they are happening in progress, so lets say a match is about to end, or one of the streamers is telling a story and it about to reach to climax or a joke and it about to reveal the punchline and WHAM here's an ad for fuck you I'm out"
The twitch format is the antithesis of a traditional TV ad experience.
The twitch format is the antithesis of a traditional TV ad experience.
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Cybsled
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The worst thing they do, and plenty of streamers have complained about it, is the instant ad you get the moment you try to join a channel. Most people will just move on immediately, much in the same way where if you are flipping through channels on TV and if you come to a channel with a commercial, you just move on.
It strikes me as a short sighted attempt to make money. In Twitch's eyes, they probably think "well, we are guaranteed 1 ad view for every person who joins a stream!", but you sabotage yourself long term because a viewer is less likely actually watch the streamer at that point (you know, the whole reason people come to Twitch to begin with).
It strikes me as a short sighted attempt to make money. In Twitch's eyes, they probably think "well, we are guaranteed 1 ad view for every person who joins a stream!", but you sabotage yourself long term because a viewer is less likely actually watch the streamer at that point (you know, the whole reason people come to Twitch to begin with).
Threelions
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I haven’t loaded up twitch in a long while but I have to admit when I did and would click on a channel if I got a preroll ad I would often instantly leave.
If it was a bigger streamer that I knew I might wait it out maybe, but if it was a random streamer I had no idea about yeah I wouldn’t even waste the time.
Kiroy
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my theory is they're setting up the marketing scam, much like facebook/instagram and a lot of big tech. They're going to spend a quarter or two pumping up the "ads viewed" metrics by just oversaturating everyone, and then they'll be able to hike their ad package prices for ineffective ads
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I mean just picture in picture it so people don't miss stuff going on and it works fine
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OU Ariakas
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They do that now on some ad breaks, but it is the streamer that is in the tiny box in the corner meaning you literally cannot hear or see them. It is actually more infuriating than the full screen version.
Szlia
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The random ads show up when no ads have been played in a while, so it is indeed possible that a contract like Hafu's goes both ways : Hafu has to play a set number of ads over some set duration, but Twitch is never rolling random ads on her stream. At least such contract would make sense. If there must be ads, at least let the streamer be sure the viewers don't get them at inopportune times.
TBT-TheBigToe
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Most of the ads I see are for Amazon Prime shows, this might not be a "twitch" problem so much as it is an "Amazon" (they own Twitch) problem.
