we have this tradition in the uk once a year the sun comes out and it literally is just once a year
where we lock up all the gingers it's a very dangerous day for the ginger people so we have
to lock it away in a vault for this special day the sun comes out and everyone goes out into a
field everyone meets in this one big field there's a huge baking tray and everyone in the uk they
just lie there and like sizzle for a full day and that's it for the rest of the year we don't see
the sun and that day was yesterday so that's why i now look like a lobster so now that we got that
business out the way hello and welcome i'm machine day and i hope you're doing really really well
these are my friends pimple and spot they moved into my face just yesterday so welcome to the
new members of the team today the three of us are going to talk about the biggest update that twitch
has done to their remote system since well forever really yesterday twitch announced on twitter that
they'll be rolling out a huge update for emotes there are four key updates and in this video i'm
gonna break down exactly what those four updates are they affect partners and also affiliates but
they will affect partners and affiliates at different times some of the things are in beta
and some of them they've basically already decided that they will be doing full release on basically
we're gonna be getting animated emotes on twitch this will become a standard thing for people that
set them up obviously it's an optional thing so if you're a partner or if you're an affiliate
you don't have to set these up but there's not really a good reason not to set these up unless
you're really really lazy this was announced yesterday and they're planning to roll out
most of the things throughout the course of june for partners and then for affiliates later on in
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emotes are the language of twitch emotes are really one of the main things that set twitch
apart from youtube gaming from facebook gaming and rest in peace mixer by the way whenever i
talk about things in this video the links will be in the description so just check them out
if you want so obviously this is a really big celebration of the 10 year anniversary of twitch
and they're celebrating this by leveraging one of their key unique selling points which is the
emote system the remote system really do add the value to twitch and help create that real
sense of community within the sub communities that exist in twitch and obviously there are
millions of those partners and affiliates have got a real big control over how much or little
they leverage the emotes for their channel and that in my opinion is one of the things
that really adds the value to a paid subscription and that's one of the reasons why when you stream
on twitch there's a higher chance that you'll make more money than you will on other platforms purely
from the point of view of dollars per person we talk a lot about discoverability on this channel
and there's a few other channels out there talk about discoverability yes twitch does lack some
discoverability but i tell you what once you are discovered monetizing yourself on twitch is very
very easy on a dollar per person basis obviously if you exclude the adverts because the advert fees
that you get on twitch are terrible in comparison with youtube for example so there are four key
updates that they're doing regards to animated emote on twitch most of these will be rolled out
within june and july and it looks like the rest of it will be rolled out before the end of the
year in 2021 the first thing they talk about is of course animated emotes in themselves they're
adding the ability for you as an affiliate and also you as a partner if you're one or the other
to add five new animated emotes now they could be if you wanted them to be a replica of your
current burst five emotes particularly if you're a affiliate you get five emotes for a tier one
sub and they could just be animated versions of those so people can use the static or the animated
version or you can literally have five completely new animated emotes to the existing ones you've
got you're gonna be able to manage the animated emotes from the existing emotes page they did
recently move this in january over to a completely separate area of its own they've obviously done
that earlier in the year knowing that they'd be making some major updates to the emotes
now this is interesting because youtube gaming and facebook are still majorly lagging behind
regards to the value that they are via the custom emotes twitch is taking like quite a giant leap
forward by adding these before the other guys have even caught up with twitch regards to emotes it
also creates the opportunity to really cement that unique selling point of theirs and create
a lot more personality from those emotes adding animated emotes seems like quite a straightforward
thing to do but when you talk about all the different devices out there compatibility and
things like that it's not as simple as it sounds the developers at twitch definitely would have
had like a job to get this done i would not be surprised if they had a team of at least 20 or
30 people dedicated to this the last year or two so the animated emotes will be managed on your
current emote page there is a screenshot further down here of what this might look like i'm just
gonna show a preview of this now currently as an affiliate you get five tier one emotes i think
it's one tier two and one tier three if you're a partner you can unlock a lot more i think it's
like 50 more remotes the animated remotes will be released to partners in june and then affiliates
is expected would have this before the end of the year twitch have said this viewers will be able to
turn off animated emotes if they want within their settings so if you're a viewer and you're worried
about reactions to animated emotes don't worry too much about that you'll be able to turn it off
so what exactly are animated remotes well they're going to exist in virtually the exact same form as
the current emotes that exist the sizing will be exactly the same it's what 28 by 28 pixels 56 by
56 pixels and 112 by 112 pixels the difference is rather than being a png file they will be a
gif file or a gif file or however you pronounce it i really hope my viewers pronounce it gif if
you pronounce it jiff um i don't know what to say twitch confirmed that there's a maximum of
60 frames that you can have within the animation in a traditional format gifs can have more than
60 frames but for twitch they're limiting it to 60 frames only so you essentially got 60
pictures that you can put into a exact square format and create movements and color changes
and transformations and things like that and they will look pretty cool especially on mobile but i
think they look pretty good on desktop as well i've already done some videos about how you can
add gifs to your channel as sources you check the links in the description below and then maybe like
a card somewhere but in the next week or two i will upload a new gif related tutorial where i
show you how you can create gifs in photoshop or a similar program to photoshop so make sure you
subscribe to the channel to make sure you get that video because this is gonna be pretty cool when it
rolls out i think this can make the difference between somebody choosing to subscribe to your
channel or not it's gonna be quite a big deal we see some examples of what these can look like
i'm quite surprised that twitch have used this knife one as an example because they're pretty
careful about what they actually allow of course the same safety rules will apply
you can't have abusive emotes and things like that so you do still need to be careful with those all
the same rules and regulations will apply there the second thing that they're rolling out as
part of this major update will be the ability to animate existing emotes so if you've got existing
emotes there and you just want to use them and animate them in certain ways you can do that
and twitch has added six default animations that you can add to an existing emote shake
rave roll spin slide in slide out and here we see a preview of what those look like i think they all
are pretty cool actually they've used the kappa as the example here i particularly like the rave one
but i'm sure there'll be new animated emotes that come out of this from from top streamers and meme
moments that we see on twitch the twitch sort of acknowledge here that there's quite a lot of
work into creating good emotes and they realize here that they're gonna be creating even more
work for people to make animated emotes twitch is super competitive people have a choice whether or
not they subscribe to you or not but of course whether they subscribe to you or someone else
so there's gonna be a lot of pressure for creators to create these animated emotes as soon as they
become available for both partners and affiliates so this is one of the reasons why they've added
this second update which will form a part of this wider update to animate existing emotes the third
update that they're doing here will be to add follower only emotes what twitch is actually doing
here they're essentially adding a free tier to your affiliate or partner landscape now currently
you get obviously tier one tier two and tier three and they have different price points and you get
specific remote benefits providing you've uploaded emotes to those they're all being enhanced and
there's more value contained within those because you can simply add more emotes to them everyone
will be able to have more remotes and those extra five that you get will be animated emotes
that's a big deal because they're giving free of charge a lot of extra value to anyone that
subscribes to your channel anyone that wants to pay twitch and you money to subscribe to
your content that's obviously really good but they're also now incentivizing people to follow
by unlocking emotes on a particular channel now the key thing about the follower modes they will
only be able to be used on the channel that you follow so for example if i follow you and you've
got follower emotes uploaded i would not be able to use those on anyone else's channel so this is
quite interesting i think they're offering the ability for non-affiliates and partners to be
able to at least use the emote function by having the follower emotes here and there's obviously up
to five of them so that's quite a lot that you get straight away right right out of the gate
so these are community specific emotes if you choose to follow a community and be a part of a
community so here twitch talk about the follower modes being in beta mode and how creators have
asked for this for a long time to start with these are gonna only be available to partners
and affiliates on a test basis but it's pretty clear in my opinion that these will be rolled out
in full to everyone i don't think this is going to be a partner an affiliate thing long term i
think this will be an everyone thing having said that that does also mean that twitch will need
to police more people in terms of the content that they're submitting for remote and that
creates a lot of extra work and takes out some of the profitability for twitch so i'm not 100
sure on that but i'm fairly certain so this is a free benefit the moment someone hits the follow
button they get access to those obviously it's in beta so not everyone's going to get access to this
straight away if i get access to it on my channel i'll do a further video about follower remotes
just to show briefly how those work but we do have another screenshot here which i'll zoom into
it says beta access and locked following modes are new free tier remotes that lets you grow
your community buying viewers more ways to join in the conversation upload up to five new emotes or
pre-existing emotes that viewers will get access to for free so you can use pre-existing emotes
and just have them on the free tier if you want or if you're lazy and don't want to add new ones
the final and perhaps the biggest update of the four things that twitch will be rolling out
this year for remotes is the library of emotes functionality now i briefly showed it earlier
in the video but they're going to have a section where you can manage loads of remotes not just the
ones that you've already got uploaded now i've always thought that the user experience the ux
and the ui of the emotes on twitch as being a little bit poor not brilliant to use and many web
developers that take a look at that would probably agree with me there basically once you've uploaded
it there's really not much you can do with those emotes they're either locked in or you've got to
delete them to edit them and it's just not that good with the library function that they're going
to roll out it looks like they're going to allow you to add up to 150 in boats in your library
you can use to interchange emotes easily without having to re-upload once you've kind of finished
with them and that just means that you can bring back older remotes swap things out a lot more and
keep things a lot fresher on your channel but it also means that managing emotes is going to be a
lot easier so obviously the emotes still have to be approved and stored to be easily accessible if
you don't have instant approval because you've not built up that 60 or 90 day approval rating
from twitch you'll still have to have an approval rating for these but once you've got that they'll
exist in your library they'll be approved and you don't then have to go through the process again
twitch talks hear a lot about being more agile and offering creators ways to just shape their culture
and community a little bit better by making the library a lot more functional flexible for
now they're saying that the library will only be available to partners and affiliates so going back
to my other point about the follower remotes that perhaps alludes to the follow remotes maybe only
being available to affiliates and partners but i really think that twitch will be missing a trick
by not allowing non-affiliates and partners to have in mode in terms of time scales they say
here we anticipate all partners in affiliates will have access to the lab within a few months and
once again just a quick review of the usability of this it does say here 140 out of 150 emotes
and the ones that are highlighted here seem to be the ones that are not currently in use whereas the
ones that are not highlighted have like a tierage indicator under it for example this one here looks
like a dab it's a tier one then you have this er one here which is a tier two but one thing that's
really encouraging to see here is that they've got some kind of filtering and user experience
stuff here so you can sort and search for your remotes as well there's 150 emotes it's quite a
lot to have to search through and manage it's good that they're baking this in before they release it
as opposed to trying to retrofit it a year or two later we can see that the animated emotes
don't exist in tier 2 and tier 3 so it looks like there'll be no extra benefits for tier two and
tier threes in terms of animations or additional emotes but that could change by the time they
actually wrote out so don't quote me on that there's also another page again i'll link this
below about what the animated remotes are going to be it just confirms that the size of the pictures
needs to be square it needs to be a maximum of 496 by 496 pixels in terms of the gif itself
but of course that'll be auto resized if you're going to resize it manually you can still do that
at a maximum of 512 kilobytes also the thumbnail for the animated remote will default to the first
frame of the gif so you may just need to be mindful of what that very first frame of the gif
actually is interesting here with the easy animate so animating an existing emote that you may have
there is literally just a drop down animated emote selection box here where you can select one of the
six animations that are available and i guess that would preview it in the three sizes here as well
so there you go huge update from twitch from the emotes point of view i really think this is going
to help leverage their strong position from a culture point of view interactivity and add a lot
more value for people that are subscribing to your channel it's gonna take time for them to get this
right and they will be rolling this out at a pace that suits them i'm sure there'll be lots of bugs
that they have to iron out i am very interested to see how the follower emotes impacts channels
because that immediately gives somebody a much more incentive to follow a channel and
get involved in the community rather than kind of sitting on the sidelines a lot of people do
do that they'll just watch a channel for a few minutes sometimes they'll bounce away sometimes
they'll convert to a chatting viewer and even if they convert to a chatting view they still don't
always follow now there's an instant incentive for people to follow and more of an incentive for
people to subscribe because of the animated emotes this is really really interesting because although
this doesn't directly affect discoverability this won't tangibly affect the discoverability of a
channel in among itself it will directly affect the conversion rate of followers
on channels so channels that have follow remotes will obviously experience a higher commitment
rate from a random view that may pop in and that's a really good thing and the reason why it is a
good thing is because you've then got more of a chance of being seen by a lot more people so it
does indirectly affect discoverability so this paired with the tags update major update they
released a week or two ago some serious steps that twitch are taking and a lot of investment towards
improving the discoverability for yourself but also adding a lot more value i'm really
keen to know what you guys think drop a comment below and also check out the tags video that i
did as well i'll link that here or here or some i'll link the video okay hope you enjoyed this
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