While at TwitchCon San Diego, Twitch also disclosed some upcoming broadcasting enhancements that will be available to streamers.
TwitchCon San Diego is taking place this weekend, and during the opening ceremony, the platform, as is customary, had some news to share with the audience. To begin, the Chief Executive Officer of Twitch, Dan Clancy, has stated that the site will provide streamers and viewers who violate the rules with further information regarding the reasons why their accounts were suspended.
In the near future, Twitch will send an email and make the appeals portal available to the user in issue in order to share any chat snippet that resulted in a suspension. Eventually, this will be expanded to include clips, allowing streamers to view the reasons why they were found to have violated the rules while viewing a livestream or video on demand. “We want to give you this information so that you can see what you did, what policies were violated, and if you feel our decision was incorrect, you can appeal,” according to a blog post published by Twitch.
Additionally, the service is aware that permanent strikes on an account might be a problem for long-time streamers who may eventually be banned for a minor infraction. This is something that the service is aware of. In order to achieve this goal, Twitch is going to implement a strike expiration policy beginning in the beginning of 2025. “Low-severity strikes will no longer put streamers’ livelihoods at risk, but we’ll still enforce the rules for major violations,” the streaming platform announced. “Plus, we’re adding more transparency by showing you exactly what led to a strike.”
When it comes to broadcasting, beginning in the beginning of the next year, viewers of streamers who are utilizing Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcasting feature will have the ability to watch streams played in two thousand. At initially, this option will be accessible in a limited number of areas; however, Twitch intends to increase its availability to additional regions during the year 2025. Another important statement made by Clancy was that “we’re working on 4K.”
In the year 2025, users who are utilizing Enhanced Broadcasting will also have the opportunity to transmit video in both the vertical and landscape orientations simultaneously. The goal here is to provide viewers with the best possible experience regardless of the device they are using to watch streams.
In addition, Twitch is going to make several enhancements to the navigation in its redesigned mobile app. These enhancements will include the ability to access your Followed channels with a single swipe and the prioritization of audio from the picture-in-picture player. Streamers will have access to a tool known as Clip Carousel, which will put the most noteworthy clips from their most recent stream in the spotlight and make it simple to share them on mobile devices and desktop computers. According to the company, it would also be simpler for users to produce YouTube videos using their mobile devices.
In addition, Twitch will provide a shared chat option within the Stream Together feature the following week. This feature will enable up to six creators who are streaming together to combine their discussions. Streamers’ moderators will have the ability to control all of the communications that are shared in a chat room, and they will have the ability to ban or time out anyone who violates a certain boundary. Creators who participate in a Stream Together session have the ability to disable Shared Chat for their own community whenever they want.
Last but not least, Twitch is going to increase the number of Creator Clubs and Unity Guilds it offers. The purpose of both is to facilitate the formation of links between streamers, teach them from one another, and let them to develop with the assistance of Twitch personnel. Twitch has initiated the Black Guild, the Women’s Guild, and the Hispanic and Latino Guild throughout the course of the past year. Recently, the platform has also announced the establishment of a Pride Guild for the LGBTQIA+ community. Next year, each of the four guilds will broaden their membership to include people from all over the world.
Creator Clubs are a relatively new feature that recently made their appearance on Twitch, namely for the DJ and IRL categories. According to Twitch, the level of involvement has even exceeded what was anticipated. The categories of Artists/Makers, Music, VTubers, and Coworking/Coding will shortly see the addition of four new Creator Clubs.