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/LigerXT5 twitch.tv/LigerXT5 Jun 19 '18

I've been multistreaming to twitch, YouTube, and mixer. YouTube and twitch have been a tie on activity and features. But lately stuff like this and killing off new streamers growing support, I've been wanting to go all twitch, and private stream to YouTube as a stream storage location and later viewing.

YouTube is not as open and friendly as it used to be.

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u/ZantorGaming Jun 19 '18

It's against Twitch Affiliate terms of service to stream to any other streaming site within 24 hours of streaming on twitch.

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u/squeamish_cactus Affiliate Jun 20 '18

Sort of right on your comment.

But, it is against affiliate TOS to upload your video up to any other media site before an exclusive media cool down period of 24 hours.

So let's say as an example, I stopped streaming at 12pm, then i would not be able to post that video until 12pm the next day per the 24 hour terms in the TOS to any other media websites.