A number of monetization and streaming tools and features are coming to Twitch later this year.
Twitch Monetization 101: How to Make Money on Twitch
In an open letter to the community, Twitch Chief Product Officer Tom Verrilli and Chief Monetization Officer Mike Minton outlined the streaming service’s plans for 2023, which include a slew of tools to manage, improve, and promote livestreams, along with a few new monetization options.
Editing and promoting VOD clips is said to be made faster and easier, and channels will get other promotional tools like manually pinning up to 20 clips, using emotes in stream titles, and more. Support for Edge, Firefox, and Safari is also being added to Guest Star, viewer milestones will appear on streams, and Twitch’s Creator Home will become available to all partners and affiliates. And if you want to do more with your audience, there are also tools in the works for sending offline messages and hosting a Q&A.
Plans for new monetization options include more direct interactions, such as an update that would make Cheers a bit more personalized (though Twitch didn’t provide details on how), and new sound notifications. There’s also the prospect of initiatives to support local streamers, along with “personalized discounts” tailored to individual viewer activity. Sponsorship deals are getting a few upgrades, too, with branded skins and other page graphics for partner channels, and more (unspecified) viewer support tools are making their way to mobile.
