OPTIMAL Twitch Ad Management for your Stream
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- How do you run ads on twitch without upsetting your viewers?
Make sure you and your viewers know when the ads are coming, Reassure them that they won’t be missing any crucial gameplay or conversation, and give them a reason to stay while the ads ARE running.
Let’s face it, Twitch has a huge problem right now with the way they do Ads.
Nobody wants ads on their stream, especially not the way that twitch does them, but this is our reality right now until twitch makes some changes, and I’m not going to hold my breath on that one, so I’ve spent the last several months playing around with a number of ways to make it a bit more manageable as a streamer. I believe the three-part solution I have found works best for my own stream, and I hope it helps you manage ads sensibly as well.
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00:00 How do you run ads without driving away viewers?
00:59 Setting up Ad Management Settings in Twitch
03:00 Triggering an Action in Streamer bot when Ads Run
03:55 Adding a delay and 2-minute warning to action
04:52 Keep your users engaged in chat while ads run
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Notice: the “hill” animation I use as an example here is no longer supported, so I don’t recommend using it.
Edit: Some of you have asked for an export code that more fully matches what's shown in the background during my description in the video, so check out this post about it: ua-cam.com/users/postUgkx08UhYjwa3Ubc1etDYACFFbr4Z5YoHMtr
I know not everyone wants to run ads, and some people settle on just letting pre-roll ads run, but this is what I've found works best for my own stream and I have people ask how i have this timer working, so here it is!
Thanks for watching, and please let me know if you need help setting this up! ❤
@@DanLiveTTV the OBS visibility part shows and hides and element in my overlay that says “ads coming soon”
I have recently removed this, and you can easily just disable or delete that part.
@@DanLiveTTV you should only need to select one for ad running the ad midroll event fires about 5 seconds before that, but has nothing to do with this video
Ad management timer is what you should select. That one will fire the ad running action on its own
thank you so much for this! i used it for the first time today and it worked really well ❣i'm excited to customize it with some things to make ad breaks more interactive
Right on! Glad it worked out for you
That video is a game changer. Love that nobody is missing something anymore. 👍
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!
I love these videos. Very helpful for a noob like muah. I've liked, and subscribed, but wanted to tell you - I appreciate the work! Very helpful!
thanks, I appreciate it!
Great video, as always. Thanks for the simple to follow instructions!
Happy to do it, thanks for the love
Great video, I'll be sharing this with my community, this. will be a huge help.
Awesome, I appreciate you saying so! Let me know if you have any questions!
This is Awesome i so needed this brother!
Right on! Glad it helped!
Great tips, man! Thank you!
You’re welcome, thanks for saying hi!
Great video thanks for clearing this up!
Cheers BBT!
God this is a life saver. Kept seeing people leave when ads played and i think this is a creative solution to all my issues.
Great! Let me know if you need help tweaking it!
@@Phlare oh, i need help with the hill if you dont mind. Somethings broke lmao
@TheIronNoodle yeah I stopped using the hill myself as well honestly, something changed and it’s not working well. I just took it out and added the time back into the delay.
Still looking for a good chat-based replacement, if you come across any.
Thanks for the tip! I'll try right away this with my audience =)
You’re welcome!
This video is great. Thanks for making it.
You’re welcome!
Let’s goooo!! Thanks mate!
Thanks 🙏
Thank you for explaining this very clearly. I recently made affiliate and I want to grow my channel but scared to activate ads in fear of people not wanting to follow or sub. This seems the least invasive so I’m going to give it a try. I’ve been to channels where the ads are extremely heavy and it’s not great.
Nah don’t sweat the ads. The only people that complain about them are going to complain about everything anyway, so they’re not worth worrying about.
Thank you! Had someone say today that they had to watch a 3 mimute add 😅 so ile see how this goes. Cheers dude
Good luck! I swear the viewers straight up lie / exaggerate about ads sometimes, but I also know that with any software, bugs happen so who knows.
Hmm i guess so haha. I will let you know how i get on 👊🏻👊🏻😊
As a speedrunners ads are a nightmare. Running a short game (20 mins or so was easy to manage). Now I run a longer category (50-60 mins). Which makes running ads kinda scary if I'm about to pb
Yeah, this setup is not for everyone for sure, but I get asked how I do my ad management enough that it was time for a video :)
Thanks very much!
You’re welcome! New version coming soon once Streamer bot 0.2.3 drops there are some new triggers that make this all so much easier.
Thank you!
you're welcome!
Hey there! I'm a little unclear why you chose to go with 90 sec ad every 30 minutes vs 3min ad every hour, I know in the video you stated that the 3 minute block would work if all you cared about was the revenue share and not disabling pre-roll ads, and maybe this is something that has changed recently, but I have seen that 3 minutes of ads disables pre-roll for the next hour. Is there another reason for going with the shorter ad length that I'm missing? And thank you for this helpful video!
Yes, at the time of making this, you could only disable prerolls for a half hour at a time, so 90seconds every 30 was the best choice.
Now, as long as you hit 3minutes per hour, you’re good.
I personally moved to 2 minutes every 40.
Updated version here: Monitor Ads on Twitch Easily with Streamer Bot
ua-cam.com/video/g3VBEWRrc2I/v-deo.html
Gunna test this tonight! Hope it works!
Good luck! Let me know if you run into any snags.
@@Phlare completely doesn't work, doesn't even have a timed action so it's not set to repeat
It doesn’t rely on a timed action. It fires off the the ad run event.
That said, that event is not firing right now due to changes twitch made to the API. Streamer bot 0.1.18 will fox and is in beta
@Phlare is the update released? Or coming soon?
Didn't even post a message.
Also where does the welcome back message go?
there's a fix coming with streamer bot 0.1.18 which is already available in beta. there are instructions here on how to switch over to the beta releases if you're interested, but i'm sure 0.1.18 will be released in the stable channel within the next days. twitter.com/streamerdotbot/status/1626067831283490817?s=20
Phlare I've got a question does twitch automatically run these ads at the 30min interval or do i have to run them, I'm slightly confused because of the "Twitch message(I'm typing ads in 2 minutes...)" part in the Ad Management Timer action
The beginning of the video goes over the settings for configuring the twitch ad manager to run ads every 30 minutes for 90 seconds. They run automatically.
@@Phlare Thank you for clarifying that, I do apologise for the stupid question, I tend to overthink when I'm doing something new and easily confuse myself xD
No need for apologies, I’m happy to help!
This is next level content!
Ads are a problem but not anymore, streamers need to do little effort to not be affected by them. Instead they complain, but not anymore, people who dont do this are missing the point.
excellent job as always
Thanks Midge! 🔥
This method still work today? Also is it possible to press a button on stream deck to disable ads?
Disabling ads I’m not sure, but yes I still use this method today.
I no longer use the mini game in between, so I’ve adjusted the delay a bit, but it still works!
Question, why didn't you go with the 3min ad at start and have 1 full hour free of ads?
A few reasons -
1) when I made this video that option did not remove prerolls for the full hour, only 30 minutes.
2) I feel like 3 minutes is too much all at once, while 90 seconds results in no noticeable viewership dropoff
@@Phlare Thank you for the feedback!
You’re welcome. Adjusting this to work for a full hour timer would still work, you’d just need to increase the delay by another 1800000 milliseconds.
I don't have events under my Twitch menu, how do you get that to show up?
This video was made before 0.2.0 before triggers were added to streamer bot,
You would now add a trigger to the action and choose the event from the context menu there instead of assigning the action to an event.
When I’m at my desk maybe I can write up an updated version of this in blog format
question....why is the source visibilty set to hidden at first the visible at the end? And do I need to make 2 actions like you did? the import code only has 1 action
also in the ads running action inside the ad management timer......is that action set to "run action immediately"
Yeah, the code seen in the video is my personal version which is much more complex than I wanted to get into for the video, though I’m happy to go through it.
The reason the source visibility is set to hidden at the beginning and visible at the end is thst the source in question is a text source that says “ads coming soon”
So at the end of this action, after an ad runs, and then after the 27.5 minute delay, the source is shown.
Then, when the ad actually runs again, the action fires again and the source is hidden while ads actually run and during the next 27.5 minutes
Yes, in my main working code I have separated the actual stuff like playing the sound and sending the chat message and firing off my chat mini game - into a separate action that is called as a subaction set to “run immediately”
The reason for separating this out is that I eventually intend to separate out some logic based on whether the ad was a scheduled ad or a manually fired ad.
@@Phlare are you gonna make a video if you do? I was trying to make your command verbatim with the exception of the milliseconds lol
I dont need an alert when ads start rolling cuz my community just spams L Ads in chat😭🙏
Wild animals, the lot of them
My streamer bot doesnt have an events tab to see all this stuff.
events moved in versions of streamer.bot at 0.2.0 and above into the new system of triggers. I'll be making a new video for handling ad management soon as there will be a new trigger coming soon that makes this whole process much simpler.
for now, you can wire an action to the ad running event as described in this video by adding a trigger to that action.
i have a video about this change from events to triggers here: ua-cam.com/video/j69T9GoFMy4/v-deo.html
Hey chief, are your Twitch ads getting ridiculous lately? I followed your tutorial to the T and it works fantastic. However, now recently, it has went from the 90 seconds to 5 and 6 ads!
I know they changed some stuff recently again and I went back through ad manager again and streamerbot and it is all exactly as it should be. Just curious if you or anyone else is experiencing this. I mean I understand ads but they are getting stupid throwing 5 and 6 at us. 🤣
Hope all is well your way! Take care.
It just depends on the ads for the season. 90s could easily be 5 or 6 ads if they are 10-15 second ads each
@@Phlare I asked my wife to watch for that and she did confirm the ads were on the shorter side. There were more but shorter. So I do agree with your assessment 100% 👍
@@DjPorkchop73 yeah I see people
On twitter a lot being like “I got 5 ads!!!” And then when asked how long the ads were, they almost always don’t know.
I think I need to add in something to the 2 minute warning that says there will only be 90 seconds of ads total, even if it shows that there will be 6 ads.
Dose anyone have an updated version of this for streamer bot 0.2.2?
0.2.3 will feature all new triggers that make this all a whole lot easier and I’m working on a video for that.
For the time being this all still works, the only difference is that the action needs to be asssigned to the ad run event using a trigger instead of the old way
@@Phlare Thanks for the quick reply, looking forward to the vid.
Ok I have been using this and for some reason it just doesn't work anymore even though it's enabled? Is there a reason why it all of a sudden stopped? It was working fine until like 2 days ago.
so, twitch changed some API stuff that caused some trouble with the way streamer bot responds to some events. there's a fix coming with 0.1.18 which is already in beta. there are instructions here on how to switch over to the beta releases if you're interested, but i'm sure 0.1.18 will be released in the stable channel within the next days. twitter.com/streamerdotbot/status/1626067831283490817?s=20
@@Phlare ah ok thank you so much for the reply. I thought it was weird when it worked fine the first few times I used it and then now nothing works with it. thanks again for responding. I'll keep a lookout for the new fix.
You’re welcome! Usually only a few days between a version going to beta and being released on the stable channel so you would see an update soon
I can't find affiliate
Have you completed the path to affiliate on twitch and have access to emotes and subscriptions and everything?
Really easy just use streamerbot this makes it possible to only run ads when youre on a break its not that ads make you anny monny so i donf care if the run once a stream or nof at all
I actually make about 1/3 of my revenue from twitch from Ads, so i don't agree that they "don't make any money".
the bottom line is that everyone should do what they want to do with ads and I'm just sharing what works for me since I get asked all the time how I do what I do in my channel.
@@Phlare i never said the dont make any monney i siad its not that you make any monney from it its a view cents to a dollar WOW that i earn 70x a day im just waiting for the day the let you turn if fully off
@@FlockersDesign yeah i'd prefer to turn them off entirely too but that day will never come, so at the moment running them like this is far preferable to me than allowing pre-rolls.
I do not depend on my income from twitch at all either since i work full time.
Ads are bad on twitch
They’ve been doing a lot of changes around ads lately which makes me hopeful. At the moment it’s just the state of things and we do what we can to work around them
@@Phlare i can only hope for the best. Although I have my reasons leave the site to multistream as thats something wanted do for long time now.
I been on twitch for 6 years and mixer for 3 so been around for nearly 10 years now
But I guess it's just something wanted to do as just got tired some their policies.
But I will never hate on anyone's choice long their having fun man that's what streaming all about. I guess my path is just doing something else now ❤
Change never a bad thing
@RisingPhoenixTV I did the multistreaming thing for a while and it was a good academic exercise, but honestly I saw no really growth from it and it was a LOT more effort to keep up with all the various chats.
You do you of course, but I would never recommend simultaneous multistreaming to anyone.
@@Phlare I'll be honest man I'm seeing more growth from being on all the platforms. I'm doing youtube, kick, trovo and Dlive.
But I am enjoying myself as its something different
@RisingPhoenixTV yeah I think if I were full time I might do it more. It was just too much to keep up with as a hobby