Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs
Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has admitted the Amazon-owned streaming platform isn't profitable. Clancy led a Q&A stream on Twi…
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Maybe a few more ads in the middle of the thing I'm trying to watch, with no way to pause or rewind to catch what I missed, will do the trick.
When did that start? I used to be on Twitch 4-5 years ago, but never went back since then.
I don't remember ads at all back then
Ads used to be run at the streamers' discretion, and they were beaten by adblock. Now adblock doesn't work on Twitch, because they did the smart thing and embedded them into the stream. Also, a few years back, even though streamers have an incentive to run ads, because they benefit from it too, Twitch implemented mandatory thresholds for number of ads that need to be run or else you lose access to some tier of monetization, so most streamers leave it on auto pilot now. It means that whenever the same stream is running on YouTube, I'm watching on YouTube so I don't miss anything.
I mostly watch YouTube streamers. Once in a while they'll do a Twitch stream and holy shit it's night and day. 0 ads on YouTube and 30 second and even sometimes 1 minute unskippable ads constantly interrupting the stream on Twitch. I honestly have no idea how people put up with it. I cancelled cable because I didn't want to watch ads, I'm not going to a site that does the same.
My adblock blocks the ads, but I still get that stupid purple screen. What really annoys me is that it's a minute and a half long. Twitch really wants me to disable ad block so I look at an ad on a Livestream for almost two fucking minutes.
I minimize and do something else until then but that's asinine.
hold on, you mean to tell me a platform that exists and is known purely for LIVE streaming content has put ads OVER the livestream interrupting your view? what kind of idiot would have approved such a service killing move?
As a mod, you can postpone an ad by 5 minutes 3 times. You can't postpone it by 1 minute, you can't choose to play them during downtime, you can't do shit but pray an interesting moment doesn't happen during the 1 minute.
Is that you, Andrew?
I didn't pick this username by accident. Do I know you?
It's Dave! Hi! 👋 How's life treating you?
The first Dave that comes to mind would have me on Discord to message me about this, and my gut tells me you're confusing me for someone else. There are lots of Daves and Andrews in the world, after all.
That guy is a faker. I'm the real Dave! Can I borrow $20?
Dave's not here, man.
Adblockers still work so I've never seen ads on twitch