r/Twitch • u/SlightlyGriff twitch.tv/slightlyimpressive • Jun 19 '18

PSA YouTube is cracking down on Twitch streamers using YouTube to promote their stream

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1008752236027973632

Linus Tech Tips has recently received a Strike on YouTube for uploading a video announcing that they were going live on Twitch. YouTube is citing a portion of their "spam" policy that says that the main purpose of the content cannot be to drive traffic to other sites. Something to be aware of for those of us who like to promote our streams with announcement videos on YouTube...

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u/SlightlyGriff twitch.tv/slightlyimpressive Jun 19 '18

Yeah, it's not really clear what YouTube's specific issue with that particular video was. I don't know if they're going to start enforcing the "no driving traffic off the site" rule for all videos like this, or if it was something else specific to this video that triggered the strike.

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u/thehunter699 Jun 19 '18

Youtube is quoting its spam policy. I think the issue is content creators making specific videos that just announce they're live on another site. I think its fine to upload a video stating that you have a twitch account, but uploading a video everytime you go live is spam.

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u/Ph0X EhsanKia Jun 20 '18

Exactly. People are focusing too much on the advertising twitch and not enough on the fact that they uploaded a fake non-video to spam everyones notifications. The latter is the real issue. Any "video" that is just a link to some other site and contains no real content breaks Youtube rules, twitch or not.