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Whether they are a new Twitch streamer or an established creator, Achievements are designed to help streamers grow, set goals, and provide transparency into their Affiliate and Partnership progress.
Affiliate is a streamer level where the streamers have even more great tools at their disposal, including a Subscription button for fans to support them and a custom Emote. For many streamers, becoming an Affiliate is what they strive for. For others, it’s a step on the way to Partner status.
A virtual good viewers can buy and use to Cheer.
The option for a Partner to delay their broadcast by up to 15 minutes to ensure fairness during competitive play.
The number of active Viewers on a channel; concurrents fluctuate throughout the stream.
As streamers use Twitch to grow their audience, they’ll also earn a share of the revenue generated from all broadcasts on their channel! Partners can determine the length and frequency of mid-roll advertisements through their dashboards.
A streamer’s central hub on Twitch. It’s where they express themselves, publish stream schedules, and—most importantly—broadcast their livestreams to the Twitch community.
A chat room comes standard on every channel. Chat gives Viewers an easy way to communicate with streamers in real time, meme it up, and use emotes.
The total number of comments in Chat.
A way for viewers to show streamers support and celebrate the moments they love.
Customizable, animated Emotes Viewers can use in chat to Cheer with Bits.
A platform that helps Twitch streamers unlock their creativity. The dashboard includes tools such as Stream Manager, one button-click Quick Actions, a digital assistant to help new creators, and a dedicated space for important updates to help our creators grow, connect, and thrive.
Emotes are emoticons/emojis used by Twitch users in Chat to express an emotion or message. In addition to the vast library of global emotes usable on Twitch, Affiliates and Partners can create custom emotes for their Subscribers to use.
Organized, team-based, multiplayer online video gaming. Twitch is the only constant in Esports—leagues and games come and go in popularity, but no matter who is on top, they’ll always be on Twitch.
The total amount of time Viewers spent watching the content.
Users that ensure the chat is up to the standards of the streamer by removing offensive posts and spam that detracts from conversations. They are easily identified by the green sword icon that appears next to their name.
Twitch Partners make up an exclusive group of the world’s most popular video game broadcasters, personalities, leagues, teams and tournaments. Partners have access to features such as: Content Monetization, Subscriptions, video quality options for Viewers and Broadcast Delays to ensure fairness during competitive play.
Streamers are at the core of Twitch. They are the users broadcasting their content on the platform. Anyone can stream on Twitch, but for those that begin to grow their viewership and following, they can work towards becoming an Affiliate and Partner. At these streamer levels, they can begin to monetize their stream and you can start to connect with their audiences. Anyone can stream, but users under the age of eighteen need to have the supervision of a parent or guardian before going live.
Subscribers to a streamer’s channel can use a customized chat badge to rep their fandom.
Once Streamers reach Affiliate status, Viewers can Subscribe to their channel for a set price per month for additional perks defined by the streamer, such as:
The number of individual people who entered the Twitch stream at least once.
The number of times the video player was loaded.
Quality options that allow viewers to select the video quality that best suits their internet speeds. Partners will always have access to quality options for their Channel.
Anyone tuned into a channel’s live broadcast. Viewers watch, listen, and interact with the live broadcast and one another through Twitch’s chat functionality.