We sat down with Twitch Admin and Global Smash Castor D1 to discuss what Twitch looks for in its partner program, and what you should avoid if you’re hoping to go full time on streaming.
Let’s be real, we all do it because we love it, but who wouldn’t want to make a decent living off of streaming?
Recently with Twitch opening up its Affiliate program, a huge amount of streamers now have the ability to monetize their streams. But the community has responded with mixed feelings. Some feel it’s great, others are, well, pissed.
We sat down with D1 to talk about what he thought about the program, how Twitch is starting to focus on small-medium sized streamers and create tools to help them grow, and how Affiliates can transition into the Partner Program.
You can check out the video here!
Now, without further ado...
3 THINGS NEVER TO DO IF YOU WANT TO GET PARTNERED
Use ViewBots
Twitch keeps track of who has used ViewBots, they’re not idiots. It’s really easy to look at the amount of concurrents that you have and compare that the amount of activity in chat and get a pretty good idea of whether or not someone is using a View Bot. If that’s not enough, just hop into the viewer list- view bots often don’t show up as actual Twitch users, if there are less people in the list than listed as your concurrents- you’re viewbotting.
If I can figure that out in a couple minutes, Twitch DEFINITELY can figure it out.
Not only that, if you are ever caught using View Bots, your account is flagged so that everytime you apply for partnership, they get notified that at one point in time you used view bots.
What can I do if someone view botted me?!
Report it IMMEDIATELY. If you see suspicious activity going on in your stream, report it to Twitch ASAP and let them know that something fishy is going on- as long as you’re proactive with reporting view bots they won’t flag you.
Ban Evasion
If you get banned from the platform and make a new account it only makes things worse. There are these magical things on the internet called IP addresses- if you create a new account after being banned from the platform, Twitch will know it’s you from your IP and you’re not going to get very far.
Breaking TOS
Showing nudity, drinking Alcohol, smoking, etc. None of that flies.
I know, I know. Some partnered streamers drink on stream, it’s not fair.
If you’re pulling in record breaking numbers, there’s a chance Twitch will overlook you flirting with the line of breaking ToS, but if you’re like the vast majority of us- you want to have as many things going for you as possible. Not breaking ToS is one of those things. So be good.
If you really want to get saucy on stream, just refer to it as something else. One of our Dojo Sensei’s Skitz drinks an awful amount of “Ginger Soda” while he’s streaming.
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