Twitch Just Made Partnership Easier

Twitch Overhauls Partnership Path and Moderation Tools

Twitch’s New Partnership Requirements

Twitch is making the biggest change to partnership requirements in years, and it’s actually lowering the bar while simultaneously making the process far less confusing.

Here’s what you now need to become a Twitch Partner:

• 6 streams of 75+ average viewers in the last 30 days
• 6 streams of 75+ average viewers in the previous 30 days

That’s down from the previous requirement of 8 streams per month. You still need to maintain good standing (no ToS violations for 60 days) and have authentic viewership, but the streaming frequency and hour requirements are gone.

What Changed (and Why It Matters)

The old system created constant confusion. You could complete the partner achievement and apply, but if your viewership had dropped since completing it, you’d get denied. Many creators were rejected multiple times, not understanding why they still showed as “eligible.”

Now, you can only apply when you actually meet the requirements. If you qualify, you have a 30-day window to apply without worrying about viewership fluctuations affecting your application.

Even better: low-viewership streams no longer count against you. If you stream variety content with different audience sizes, only your best six streams in each 30-day period matter. CEO Dan Clancy emphasized this point:

“You can stream a variety of different content with different levels of viewership. And as long as you hit that minimum of six streams, six eligible streams, you’re good to apply.”

Raids Now Count (Finally)

Previously, Twitch excluded raid viewership from partnership calculations. This never made much sense – if you can consistently retain raided viewers, that demonstrates genuine community-building ability.

The new system counts all authentic viewership, including raids. If someone raids you with 100 viewers and those people stick around because they enjoy your content, that viewer retention absolutely should count toward partnership.

When This Goes Live

These updated requirements will be reflected in the Creator Dashboard before TwitchCon (which starts October 17, 2025). If you’re close to partner, it’s worth checking whether these new, more flexible requirements push you over the edge.

Twitch Goes All-In on Better Moderation Tools

If you’ve ever finished a stream and wondered what chaos your moderators dealt with while you were focused on content, Twitch has finally built something for you. The new Moderation Analytics page gives you a comprehensive post-stream breakdown of everything that happened on the moderation front.

What You’ll Actually See

The analytics page provides several key insights:

• Complete moderation history: See which users were banned, timed out, or had messages deleted during your stream
• Moderator activity breakdown: Track which mods were most active and what actions they took
• Bulk reporting tools: Review and report problematic users after the stream ends, when you actually have time to deal with it
• Quick remediation: Unban users if you think the moderation was too harsh

This addresses a real problem every streamer faces. When you’re live, you’re focused on entertaining your audience, not watching every moderation decision happen in real-time.

The feature rolls out in about two weeks and will be accessible from your Creator Dashboard, mobile app, stream summary emails, and regular analytics pages. Moderators get access too, with notifications prompting them to review analytics after streams end.

Streamlined Settings Make Moderation Less Overwhelming

Alongside the analytics page, Twitch is rolling out a completely redesigned moderation settings interface (which we previewed a few issues ago) that should make configuration significantly less intimidating for newer streamers.

The New Simplified Approach

The redesign organizes everything into three clear categories with visual slider controls:

1. Chatter Permissions: Who can chat on your channel? Controls for phone verification, follower-only mode, and account age requirements live here.
2. AutoMod & Message Filtering: What can people say? Your AutoMod levels and blocked terms are grouped together.
3. Channel Protection: Who can follow and be present? Settings like ban evasion detection and preventing banned users from viewing your stream.

This is currently rolled out to 50% of users, with plans to expand in the coming weeks. Importantly, if you’ve already configured your moderation settings, nothing has been overwritten. Your existing setup remains intact.

Stream Rewind Finally Arrives (With Some Limitations)

Twitch is launching Stream Rewind this week, allowing viewers to pause, rewind, or scrub back during live streams – a feature that’s been standard on platforms like YouTube Live for years.

How It Works

When you pause or rewind a live stream, the video goes back but chat stays live. You can see what’s happening in real-time chat while catching up on what you missed. Hit the “live” button to jump back to the current moment.

This is genuinely useful for viewers who join late, miss an important moment, or just need to step away briefly without losing context.

The Catch: Limited Rollout

Stream Rewind is launching exclusively for channel subscribers and Turbo subscribers on web browsers first. No mobile support at launch.

Twitch is upfront about why: they need to ensure the feature doesn’t become an ad-blocking workaround.

“We are working to make it available for everyone. The reason we are limiting that initially is because there’s work we need to do to make sure ads still work with ad blockers and it doesn’t become a way to get around ads.”

There’s also a technical requirement: you must have VODs enabled. Stream Rewind uses your VOD infrastructure, so if you don’t save broadcasts, the feature won’t work. Unfortunately, this also means DJ channels can’t use Stream Rewind due to music rights limitations preventing VOD storage.

When Everyone Gets Access

Twitch is actively working on expanding Stream Rewind to all viewers once they’ve solved the advertising challenges. Mobile support is also in development but delayed compared to web.

For creators, this is automatically enabled if you have VODs turned on. There’s no opt-out currently, though Twitch is considering adding that option before the wider rollout.

Pete’s Content Corner

Delve into my weekly selection of content creation highlights – handpicked videos, podcasts, and tweets that promise to captivate, educate, and entertain.

1. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy addressed the recent server consolidation, explaining that Twitch is moving away from dedicated hardware to Amazon infrastructure. While this reduced the visible ingest server list, Twitch is actually increasing Transcode server locations by about 4x, placing them closer to streamers.
2. Kai Cenat became the first Twitch streamer ever to hit 1 million active subscribers during his Mafiathon 3 subathon. The milestone breaks his own previous record and cements his position as Twitch’s most-subscribed channel.
3. StreamCharts released their 2025 viewbotting report revealing the massive scale of fake viewership across live platforms. In Q2 2025 alone, suspicious Twitch streams generated over 30 million hours of fake watch time. On Kick, one in six streamers with 50+ average viewers used viewbots, producing nearly 20 million inflated hours.

Thanks, as always, for taking the time to read Stream Report.

Pete ✌️