How to get affiliate on Twitch

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Twitch is the most popular streaming platform among gamers. Historically, YouTube has not made enough efforts to capture the gaming audience, and all projects similar to Twitch have failed to achieve any significant success. As a result, Twitch has finally established itself as the main streaming platform for gamers. And today we are writing specifically about Twitch affiliate programs, and not about any other streaming service.

Twitch affiliate
For streamers, the Twitch service has long been a proven option for earning money, allowing wordpress web design agency them to raise tens and hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of rubles per month. But before you start earning with the service, you need to get the coveted status.

Currently, there are about 30,000 official partners on the project, and the Twitch program itself is focused on several ways to earn money:

Selling paid subscriptions to your streams for Twitch viewers. In this case, partners can earn from 50% to 70% on subscriptions costing $5, $10, and $25 per month. The benefits of earning money on subscriptions include regular cash flow.
The next method is selling mods and games from the service's clients. If Twitch viewers buy a game or in-game item via a link posted by streamers, the streamer gets 5% of the purchase amount.
Another option, available only to Twitch partners, is advertising integrations that are embedded in the middle of the broadcast. You can embed commercials every 8 minutes, although the service recommends not doing this more often than 2-3 times per hour.


The main point of the Twitch service program is improved conditions and additional opportunities for account monetization. However, not everyone can become a partner of the Twitch service. Firstly, the service itself chooses who to send invitations to that open access to the program, and secondly, to receive such an invitation, you need to work hard. Streamers must have:



from 50 subscribers on the channel;
at least 500 minutes of broadcasting within the last 30 days;
at least 7 days broadcast within the last 30 days;
the presence of at least three viewers at each broadcast simultaneously.
Interestingly, there are two categories of so-called Twitch service partners: “partners,” who can only earn money from subscriptions and the sale of mods and games, and “partners,” who can directly engage in embedding additional commercials into broadcasts.

By the way, there is an easier way to connect to the affiliate program, but for this the streamer must already have a promoted channel on YouTube. In this case, it will be enough to write to support and request connection to the Twitch affiliate system
Requirements for obtaining the coveted status may change over time. You can view the current conditions on the service itself. However, we already see that Twitch affiliate program is not available to everyone at the start. We will talk about whether it is possible to earn money without having affiliate status at the end of the article (spoiler: it is possible).