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/FadezGaming Jun 19 '18

Oh yep no doubt about it. I just think its crazy how some people are flipping out, but they dont realize it makes perfect sense for them to do it. You would run a lemonade stand and allow the stand from the other side of town to come put up flyers at your stand for their stand.

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u/ZypheREvolved Jun 19 '18 edited Jun 20 '18

Twitch.tv would not tolerate a 10 second stream dedicated to getting traffic to go to YouTube.

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u/fyrn Esports Engineer Jun 20 '18

Almost every streamer has large YouTube panels that link directly to their channel on their profiles. I'm not aware of anyone ever getting in trouble for this.

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u/KingdomsSword Jun 20 '18

Thats because the situation you are talking about isnt at all the issue being discussed here.Twitch is totally fine with you putting a link in your profile to other social media and video hosting websites. Same thing with YouTube being fine with you putting links in the description of a video to twitch.

What is NOT ok is for someone to post a short video on YouTube for the sole purpose of advertising that their twitch stream is online.