Category: Twitch

If you want to support a streamer that is an affiliate or a partner with Twitch, you can subscribe to them for a monthly fee. Currently, the standard subscription is $4.99 (US Dollars), with tier 2 subs at $9.99 and tier 3 at $24.99 Each of the three tiers unlocks an emote, with higher tiers getting all emotes up to their level. Subscribers can use these emotes on any channel chat on Twitch. For Partners, additional tier 1 emotes can be added as their subscriber numbers increase. To get a free sub to one stream every 30 days, if you have Amazon Prime, you can link your account there with your Twitch account to get access to Twitch Prime features, including this free monthly sub. For information about the other…

Streamers can personalise the area below the video player on their channel page with multiple information panels. To enter panel editing mode, go to your own channel page, and click the ‘ Edit Panels’ slider below the video player. Simple text can be used in the panels, but to make the most of them, you will need to use some ‘Markdown’ language. (HTML is Hyper-Text Markup Language, and the Twitch markup works in a similar way, but on a much smaller scale.) Twitch has a guide to its markdown language here: Twitch Markdown Info The main markdown commands you’ll want to start with are: Bold - use 2x * either side of the text to be bolded (e.g. **Bold** ) Link - Format is: [Text](URL) -(e.g. [Patch’s Channel](https://www.twitch.tv/patchtuesday) Header (1,…

Emotes on Twitch are used to add some extra colour and life to channel chats. Affiliates and Partners can add custom emotes which subscribers can then use Twitch-wide. On any channel, hit the smiley face in chat that’s in the area available for you to type in. You will be shown the emotes that are attached to the channel you are watching, and if you are a subscriber, you can click on them and the relevant text to make the emote appear in chat will be posted there for you. If you aren’t a subscriber, you can see what the channel emotes are, but they will be locked. Most emotes for any channel will be tier 1, and the more subscribers the channel has, the more tier 1 emotes it’s…

Setting your profile information on Twitch is very simple, and like on a lot of Internet sites, helps to show who you are to others on whatever platform it might be. This is the case for anyone with an account, but if you intend to stream it’s virtually a must. To fill in your profile information, click the menu dropdown at the very top right of the web page next to your channel name. [image] Then click on Settings, down near the bottom of the list. The first section allows you to upload a ‘Profile Picture’. This is basically your avatar for the site, and is a square image that will show in a lot of places. Files can be in jpeg, png or gif format, and have maximum limitations…

If you’ve just finished a stream and there was part of it that really stood out for you, you can save it as a highlight. You need to have broadcasts set to automatically save, and you can then get to the highlight editor via the Video Producer in your dashboard, which is here: https://www.twitch.tv/username/manager (Just replace the username with the name of your own channel). Click the highlight button, or if there isn’t one showing, you should be able to access it from a menu that will show if you click the three dots to the right of the broadcast you are interested in. A new tab should open in your browser with the chosen video ready in the highlight editor. Below the video player, there is a long bar…

Twitch.tv is mostly known as a streaming service, mainly focused on computer gaming, but as well as live entertainment, streams can be stored in various ways, and the site is also a platform for uploading video content. Streamers can set their broadcasts to be automatically saved for 14 days, with partners and Twitch Prime subscribers getting 60 days before their VoDs expire. To set automatic saving on your channel, go here: https://www.twitch.tv/username/dashboard/settings (replacing username with the name of your channel), or just paste /dashboard/settings to the end of the URL while on your own channel page. You can make highlights from past recordings from the ‘Video Producer’, here - https://www.twitch.tv/username/manager (again, replace username with your channel name). You’ll see a list of recent broadcast recordings, and can click on a…

To follow a channel on Twitch.tv, go to the channel you want to follow and just hit the follow button. This one, with the heart on it. Once you click on the follow button, you’ll get an option to receive notifications when the channel goes live (not on mobile, and it defaults to not notify). Choosing whether to get notifications will depend on how you expect to use Twitch. If you are mainly following one streamer that you know (maybe a younger family member), or just a few, then leaving notifications on for them all should be fine. If you’re likely to follow a lot of streamers, then you may want to be a bit more selective about which send notifications, if any. If you do follow a lot of…

Streaming on Twitch can be a lot of fun. A lot of streamers build up a community, where they and their viewers and supporters can socialise and interact. As a streamer’s viewership grows, revenue generation opportunities arise. Among those opportunities are a couple of systems built into Twitch itself. The two tiers of the integrated income generating schemes on Twitch are the Affiliate system and the Partner Program. You can read about the Affiliate scheme here: Twitch Affiliate Scheme The Partner Program is the ‘senior’ of the two, and has also been in place a lot longer than the affiliate system. For a long time, the requirements for eligibility were a mystery, and different for different streamers. Basic requirements are now shown in the achievements area (https://www.twitch.tv/username/dashboard/achievements - replace 'username'…

Twitch have two levels of agreement that streamers can sign up to, which add extra functions to channels and options for raising revenue. The longer running, and still ‘senior’, system is the partner program, which you can read about here - The Twitch Partner Program The affiliate system has been added more recently, and grants a subset of the partner benefits to those who fulfil certain criteria, and then agree to the terms. To qualify for the affiliate scheme, you need to fulfil four requirements over a period of 30 days. The requirements are: Reach 50 followers Stream for 8 hours Stream on 7 different days Have an average of 3 viewers Anyone that starts streaming and begins to take it at all seriously should be able to fulfil these…

If you’ve started streaming, you’ll probably also be watching other streamers, and getting involved with chat and their communities. Once you’ve got some streamer friends, you can help support them with hosts and raids. To host another streamer, you can use the chat command /host, remembering that this applies when you use the command in your own channel’s chat. The format is ‘/host channelname’. There is a restriction on how many times you can use the command, which I think is twice an hour, but really, it’s not a command you should want or need to be using over and over again anyway. There is also a system set up which allows you to add channels to a list, and then automatically host them. The auto-host system has settings which…