Summary
A new update toTwitchincludes a helpful feature that could be a game-changer for content creators on the platform, allowing streamers to more easily share their content. The massively popular streaming platform has made plenty of changes throughout the years looking to streamline the experience and make Twitch better for its creators. While Twitch hasn’t been free of controversy, the platform has pushed updateshelping Twitch streamers dealing with harassmentand looking to improve the site’s user interface. Now, a new update is giving channels more control over their clips.
The clipping feature is one of the most popular tools used by many viewers andTwitchstreamers to push their content to a wider audience. Clips allow streamers to extract the best bite-sized moments from their streams, with fans able to share their Twitch clips both on the site and through other platforms like YouTube and Facebook. The feature has become a staple of online streaming platforms, with other competitors like YouTube and Kick later implementing their own clip systems. Now, Twitch is once again looking to enhance the feature it pioneered.
A recent update from Twitch announced through the platform’s social media is making even more improvements to the clip function on Twitch. Twitch clips will now automatically generate a vertically-oriented “portrait” version of clips for sharing through services like YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels. Creators can also manually edit the portrait versions and trims of their clips, as well as their titles, at any time before publishing the video. Twitch also confirmed in its announcement post that it will soon be implementing a feature to directly share clips toother platforms like YouTubeand TikTok.
Twitch Rolling Out Upgrade to Clips
Alongside the new feature, Twitch shared several details about the future of the clip system as well, teasing multiple updates. The streaming platform confirmed that content creators may see their number of Clips drop withthe new Twitch update, given the greater effort required to publish Clips under the new version. Twitch also revealed it is adding a “Clips carousel” to streamers' dashboards, allowing content creators to quickly gauge their most-viewed clips at any time. The update will remove the “channel name overlay” with the new system, with Twitch working on a way to better integrate the overlay.
With Clips receiving major improvements, fans have commonly asked for a plethora of changes to improve the overall experience on the site.A “Rewind” feature has been a common requestamong fans on Twitch, allowing users to scrub back into a stream to catch moments they may have missed. Twitch has also seen a rise in its competition in recent years, with YouTube growing more popular for streaming and upstarts like Kick making a major splash. Twitch’s new Clips look to make sharing content even easier for its creators.
