Twitch is making changes to its partner stats requirements

Twitch is making a major change to the way the Amazon-owned streaming platform calculates its requirements for maintaining partner status, now also taking viewership data from raids from other channels into account. The wildly popular streaming platform has undergone numerous changes in recent years that have positively impacted its talents and brought forth a wealth of helpful features. Twitch rolled out new updates to its clipping system last month, giving users the ability to easily create portrait versions of their clips, and promised future upgrades. Now one of Twitch's exclusive statuses is undergoing a big change.

Twitch's partner system serves as one of the primary ways for streamers on the platform to monetize their content. In order for streamers to be eligible for partner status, Twitch requires its creators to stream at least 25 hours on at least 12 different days and have an average of 75 viewers. Twitch also offers programs like Partner Plus, which offer even better incentives for some of the streaming site's most popular content creators. A new update now makes it even easier for more creators to achieve partner status.

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According to a recent statement from Angela from Twitch's Global Partners Operation Team, Twitch recently implemented a change to its partner eligibility requirements. The post reveals that Twitch is now including raids from other users in its statistics for partner consideration, opening up the status to even more streamers. Angela argues that in her decision to change the requirements, she doesn't want to penalize Twitch “networks and communities” in order to potentially help smaller communities build each other up.

Twitch is making changes to partner status requirements

The new changes to Twitch's partner program come as the popular streaming platform has recently seen major changes among its top creators. Popular VTuber Ironmouse recently broke a Twitch record during her ongoing subathon, surpassing Kai Cenat with the highest number of subscribers in the platform's history. Twitch even congratulated Ironmouse via the platform's official Twitter account, with the streamer planning to donate half of the proceeds from the subathon to the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Kai Cenat has also been making big moves lately and is rumored to be working with McDonald's in the near future.

Twitch's adjustments to the partner program hope to attract more users to the platform as the site has seen the return of several major talents. Several popular content creators like LilyPichu and Myth have returned to Twitch in recent months after previously receiving big deals to leave the platform in favor of YouTube. Many returning streamers have cited Twitch's better revenue split and superior chat features as key reasons for returning to the Amazon streaming site. Twitch could be experiencing a major renaissance, with the return of big-name talent and a bigger offering for its partner program.