Twitch viewership drops to lowest in 5 years amid viewbot crackdown

a year ago by Sunshine to c/technology

Twitch has recorded its lowest monthly viewership in five years following a crackdown on viewbots over the summer.

panda_abyss 22 points a year ago

I bet injecting more ads randomly into the live streams so you miss content will help.

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Akasazh 2 points a year ago

If you set your vpn to Albania you get no ads, as they have banned advertising online.

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Twinklebreeze 1 point a year ago

That's why I quit watching. I rarely chat, but it seemed like every time I asked a question I would get hit with an ad and miss the response.

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ZombieBait 11 points a year ago

If they were able to remove viewbots without impacting real viewers, shouldn't viewship have remained mostly the same and it's just that the stats are now more accurate?

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scintilla 3 points a year ago

Have any twitch streamers talked about the effect the viewbot crackdown had in revenue? Because I've seen a lot of yourubers I used to enjoy switch entirely over to twitch and I wonder if this will push any of them back towards edited content.

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x00z 3 points a year ago

Considering the ones who had losses would probably be the ones viewbotting, I don't think they'll be willing to discuss it.

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Akasazh 1 point a year ago

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