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Probably longer intervals between streamers showing ads, compared to TV?

I know that if streamers showed ads every 10 minutes and I was forced to watch them, I would just not watch Twitch at all.

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When streamers don't show ads within some interval of time, twitch will automatically play ads to compensate, so I don't think that's what was meant. Twitch has full control of this interval.

The person you're responding to isn't saying that Twitch lacks the ability. They are saying that increasing the occurrence would cause people to get annoyed and leave, resulting in no ads being viewed.

I get that at some point twitch or even amazon.com can't control prices of ads because advertisers will pay only what they think those spots are worth but on the flip side, I think it is worth noting the costs of running twitch have probably massively increased since their justin.tv days. I remember reading in the justin.tv days, they were trying to convince everyone that they're sustainable and that one ad an hour (not one ad roll with multiple ads, just one ad) would MORE than cover all of Justin tv costs. I'm sure the rates have collapsed since then AND the costs have gone up. I wouldn't mind 480p back when the best quality I could watch was from some guy's webcam at 720p but it is a different matter when I want to watch 1080p60 screen share. 480p is worthless for watching video games or coding streams. Probably obvious but just wanted to say out loud that the costs have likely gone up.

Twitch ads sucks. Microphone is muted and we have to rely on small screen above comment section. Anti pattern like this is reason why I don't watch twitch anymore.

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