⛏️ Week 2 of the Minecraft sponsorship campaign is now live: More Minecraft, More Caves! US, UK, and Germany streamers: opt in, stream 1 hour, get paid. One more week drops after this 💜 Spots are first-come, first-served: 🔗 link.twitch.tv/SponsorshipsD…

Twitch shipped Power-Ups APIs a few days ago. We just finished rolling out support across Streamlabs. Already seeing >10,000 creators receiving Power-Up alerts. Power-Ups now work with Alert Box, Goals, Stream Boss, Event List, End Credits, Tip Jar, Stream Labels, and more. Curious to see how creators use these. If you've been experimenting with Power-Ups, let me know what's working and what you'd like us to build next.

Riot saw your replies and they agree there needs to be some @TFT love, too 💜 More gift subs, and still no sign-up needed! Stream Teamfight Tactics August 11-18. More info in our blog: 🔗 link.twitch.tv/RiotBonusGift…

Riot Games is dropping BONUS gift subs on Affiliate and Partner channels streaming 2XKO, Valorant, and League of Legends this summer, starting June 10th! More subs, more growth, more hype - no sign-up needed 💜 Check out our blog for details and T&Cs: link.twitch.tv/RiotBonusGift…

Earlier this month, we shared plans to cap CCV on channels our systems detect are receiving sustained, significant inauthentic traffic - and we’ll continue applying those caps as part of our ongoing viewbot detection work. Now, we’re introducing a new, optional View Count Cap feature that creators can use if they believe they're being targeted by bots. Set a cap based on your normal audience size, and we will cap your CCV to match that value. You can turn it on ahead of time as a preventative measure, or enable it during a stream if you think your channel is being targeted. The optional cap stays in place until you turn it off. Partners will have access to this feature to start, and we plan to expand to our wider community soon. Note, you aren’t required to turn the self-cap on. This feature is being offered for you to use as you deem appropriate, and you can use it at your discretion. We’ll continue to explore ways to target viewbots and protect our community from botting across the board. To apply the optional cap, head to your Navigate to Settings > Stream Manager: dashboard.twitch.tv/settings…

Wow, our US slots are already almost filled, but we still have slots for our UK and German creators - sign up while you can! Missed out? Don't worry - this is the first of THREE opportunities over the next few weeks 💜 We'll post a reminder on social for upcoming opportunities

What can you do if you’re being maliciously botted? @djclancy999 announced a new feature that allows you to cap your visible viewcount! We know streamers don’t like their CCV data being falsified, and capping prevents bad actors from getting the results they want:

We’ve seen questions about how bots impact discovery. Our teams looked into this closely, and found that actual impact to discovery is super low. @djclancy999 addresses how this works in categories with high to low sorting on both Web and Mobile:

Why not just eliminate bots from our CCV calculation? We do! @djclancy999 addresses the nuance of this, and how our new tools will further assist:

We've seen claims that Embedded views are a common way people viewbot. @djclancy999 Highlights we're always monitoring this, but only 0.37% of our hours watched currently come from embeds:

Listen: we hate viewbots. They hurt Twitch as a business, our creators and our community. Hear from @djclancy999 on our three main challenges in tackling this issue:

There has been a lot of discussion and questions from the Twitch community recently — about viewbotting, discovery, and more. I will be going live on Thursday at 4pm PDT from my channel twitch.tv/djclancy to talk about some of these issues and answer questions.

📢 Starting today, Channel Points, emotes, subs, Bits, and badges are available to all streamers on Twitch - no Affiliate status required! These tools help you build a community from day one 💜 Enroll and complete your setup in your dashboard today: 🔗 dashboard.twitch.tv/monetiza…