A peculiar and controversial year for Twitch with the content filters and some movements that it has had to produce on its platform. Now, from TwitchCon 2024, a series of news has been announced in which it appears Your redesigned app and other major improvements to continue to evolve as a streaming platform.
Twitch has announced great news for the Streamer Achievement Program since TwitchCon with three new tiers, the Creators Club to help streamers to find like-minded communities (focused on Unity Guilds and Guilds as Open Clubs for both Affiliates and Partners) and some very exciting improvements to the mobile app, the arrival of Twitch Stories and 4K content.
The platform has redesigned the mobile application with the aim of helping new users find their favorite content as well as users who are familiar with Twitch. For the latter, the redesign will be useful because every time they enter the platform, they will do so in a shorter way by putting the content they are looking for at their fingertips.
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This particularity of the application is due to the fact that 70% of new Twitch viewers do so via mobileso this move makes a lot of sense. Last May, testing of the redesign began with a small number of users with ongoing updates that include new autoplay options, improved performance, and some changes that the platform will announce soon.
What emerges is Stories on Twitch which, in addition to dazzling users with content they are not used to, offers another type of format to streamers with content of up to 60 seconds, available to partners since June 24.
4K content
The platform announced that after the summer the ability to create stories will also come to affiliates and in the coming months, they will be available on the web. Creators will also have an easier time creating videos or clips because they are automatically generated in portrait and landscape versions and then edited. Something similar to Stream Together, a simple way for other streamers to go through other broadcasts that will generate collaborations between streamers.
Twitch also wants to offer other experiences such as power-ups, to add more options from the current three with new seasonal message effects, spoken text capabilities and sound alerts. Eventually, streaming and 4K and Twitch It’s now available today for streamers with the latest version of OBS Studio.
Enhanced streaming ensures that video quality is better controlled using client-side encryption and automatic configuration. Live vertical videos are incredibly enhanced with advanced codecs like HEVC and AV1 with 1400p/4K resolution.
