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http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/02/announcing-twitch-turbo-an-ad-free-experience-for-twitch/
Announcing Twitch Turbo: Watch Games, Not Ads.
Today we’re excited to announce an all-new way to experience the Twitch content you love, seamlessly and without ads, all while still supporting your favorite broadcasters. It’s called Twitch Turbo, and for $8.99 per month you gain access to a number of exclusive features to enhance your Twitch experience: - Ad-free Twitch: No pre-rolls, no mid-rolls, no companions, no display ads, and broadcasters still get paid. All you see are front-page takeovers.
- Exclusive Turbo Badge: A way to proudly show the community your passion for Twitch.
- Custom emoticon set: A Choice between the standard set and an all-new set of emoticons to express digital emotions
- Expanded chat colors: The ability to stand out from the crowd with Turbo-only chat colors.
- Priority Customer Support: A way to get into the front of the line when you need help.
This is just the beginning of what we hope to offer through Twitch Turbo, and we’re looking forward to seeing exactly what sort of benefits and enhancements the community would like to see, from viewers to broadcasters and beyond. Starting today around 9:00am PST, you can sign up for Twitch Turbo by visiting http://www.twitch.tv/products/turbo, and please feel free to share your thoughts below.
I've recently read that twitch have announced a turbo feature to their site, which is a premium service in which you pay $8.99 a month to not see adverts on their site.
Now i'm based in the UK and i don't see this when i access twitch so is it just a US thing currently?
So firstly i'm wondering if this is actually a thing or if it's just very new.
I like the idea of this service but what i'm wondering is who does this money go to? I never block adverts on streams as i know it brings in some money to the streamer and i like to support them as much as possible.
So my worry is, if I was to buy this service do the streamers lose out on money from adverts i could be watching?
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Heard the page goes live at 9AM Pacific
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Here is the announcement
Ad-free Twitch: No pre-rolls, no mid-rolls, no companions, no display ads, and broadcasters still get paid. All you see are front-page takeovers.
All i hope is that Twitch won't turn for the same as Justin.tv. If you aren't subscriber, you won't be able to watch a certain stream sometimes because of the limit where X amount of people are able to watch the stream from your country, or whatever it is. But i doubt that will happen.
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On February 05 2013 00:09 Grettin wrote:Here is the announcementShow nested quote +Ad-free Twitch: No pre-rolls, no mid-rolls, no companions, no display ads, and broadcasters still get paid. All you see are front-page takeovers. All i hope is that Twitch won't turn for the same as Justin.tv. If you aren't subscriber, you won't be able to watch a certain stream sometimes because of the limit where X amount of people are able to watch the stream from your country, or whatever it is. But i doubt that will happen.
That would absolutely kill their business, but I suppose someone has to pay for bandwidth all those streams without adds need
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On February 05 2013 00:09 Grettin wrote:Here is the announcementShow nested quote +Ad-free Twitch: No pre-rolls, no mid-rolls, no companions, no display ads, and broadcasters still get paid. All you see are front-page takeovers. All i hope is that Twitch won't turn for the same as Justin.tv. If you aren't subscriber, you won't be able to watch a certain stream sometimes because of the limit where X amount of people are able to watch the stream from your country, or whatever it is. But i doubt that will happen.
This is pretty much impossible. Twitch's origin is the Justin.tv gaming category which was the single category that had the X-amount-of-people-restriction lifted from it, because of its popularity. It then seperated from JTV and became TwitchTV, now Twitch.
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On February 05 2013 00:13 Zaphid wrote:Show nested quote +On February 05 2013 00:09 Grettin wrote:Here is the announcementAd-free Twitch: No pre-rolls, no mid-rolls, no companions, no display ads, and broadcasters still get paid. All you see are front-page takeovers. All i hope is that Twitch won't turn for the same as Justin.tv. If you aren't subscriber, you won't be able to watch a certain stream sometimes because of the limit where X amount of people are able to watch the stream from your country, or whatever it is. But i doubt that will happen. That would absolutely kill their business, but I suppose someone has to pay for bandwidth all those streams without adds need
You are right. Obviously my post was more of a offtopic than related, but its sometimes okay to fear for the worst i guess. :p
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I think its a great idea, and I'd love to pay for it, but I want to see more features, more value first :/
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I think it is an interesting avenue to take in terms of monetizing the site. I can only imagine that partnered streamers would have been informed of some modification to the payment model to which they stipulated when they signed up with Twitch. Doubt there would be a large effect as a result.
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so any ideas how ad revenue will go to the broadcasters?
Like if i paid for the turbo sub and was watching a stream but see no ad's how will the broadcasters get money if i'm not seeing them?
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On February 05 2013 00:23 yorkey wrote:
so any ideas how ad revenue will go to the broadcasters?
Like if i paid for the turbo sub and was watching a stream but see no ad's how will the broadcasters get money if i'm not seeing them?
Every turbo user watching the stream will count as an impression.
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On February 05 2013 00:23 yorkey wrote:
so any ideas how ad revenue will go to the broadcasters?
Like if i paid for the turbo sub and was watching a stream but see no ad's how will the broadcasters get money if i'm not seeing them?
Reading the comments, someone said this. I couldn't find the exact comment by a twitch employee though.
Read some of the new comments from the staff before talking. Twitch automatically records when a Turbo member watches, and counts it as though an ad was watched, even though an ad isn't shown. So the broadcaster still gets paid the same.
GunRuns comment:
Broadcasters are paid on a per-impressions basis for ads. If a Turbo user would have seen an ad, it's recorded and the broadcaster is paid as if the user had been shown one.
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On February 05 2013 00:24 drooL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 05 2013 00:23 yorkey wrote:
so any ideas how ad revenue will go to the broadcasters?
Like if i paid for the turbo sub and was watching a stream but see no ad's how will the broadcasters get money if i'm not seeing them? Every turbo user watching the stream will count as an impression.
Ah ok, well i quite like the idea of it.
One thing i was wondering though. (sorry for so many questions ) is currently broadcasters put up subs for their stream to support them, and you get no ads etc on their channel but now for a bit more you get no ads on all channels, right? so won't broadcasters lose out on quite a bit of money from people who would normally subscribe but have moved to the turbo sub?
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For me this is great, I hate AD's (even though I white list twitch and teamliquid <3) For just £5 a month I can be without ads and not feel like I'm stealing content from the streamers.
Now for a teamliquid+ option ? :D
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Much like Spotify, I feel this is a service worth paying for.
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Good idea, they might get some of the people using adblock using this feature instead to promote the streamers.
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On February 05 2013 00:27 Detri wrote:
For me this is great, I hate AD's (even though I white list twitch and teamliquid <3) For just £5 a month I can be without ads and not feel like I'm stealing content from the streamers.
Now for a teamliquid+ option ? :D
At least TLs ads are non-intrusive banners usually of qt asians, rather than the Devil May Cry advert which blasted my ears every 5 minutes, or the fucking Blops2 DLC advert which is awful because it reminds me of how big a scam the DLC packs for that game are.
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An interesting consequence of this is that channels that are aiming for high production values, but previously assumed most of their viewers were watching ads are going to have to fill that time with at least a decent graphic. I imagine most twitch viewers are gonna get bored of the crappy static screens during ads. Which isn't to say its worse than the ads themselves, but a great stream will have something for twitch turbo users.
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How much is the streamer pay out per ad normally?
As in, how many ads would you have to watch for twitch to pay out the full 8.99 to streamers?
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This screws over the pro gamer streams that make a big chunk of their living off subs/ad revenue
Twitch is greedy as hell, feel bad for the people who get screwed over by this, seems like all stream sites are geting greedy and screwing over the people who make them money, Hope twitch does not get closed down like own3d did when youtube streams go live. Impossible for people to make money now with twitch.
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