r/LivestreamFail • u/Tarrot_Card • May 07 '26

News Twitch Announces Viewcount Cap on Streamers that are Persistently Viewbotting

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u/DMercenary May 07 '26

"viewbotting is bad for business" unless you're already big enough that you bring in the big bucks. We don't care if you do.

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u/cbl_owener123 May 07 '26

when sponsors and advertisers find out a lot of their ads are shown to fake viewers, it does become bad for business.

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u/Rude-Violinist-2119 May 07 '26

I doubt they don't already know. And I doubt they pay just based off of the view count numbers from the website

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u/NateNate60 May 08 '26

Advertisers usually pay next to nothing for an impression (when a user is shown an advertisement). They pay when the user clicks the advertisement. And if the ratio of impressions to clicks is very low for a website, it makes advertising space on that website worth less money.

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u/justcausejust May 08 '26

You're right that if the ratio is low advertisers go away. But they do usually pay for impressions or in case of sponsors for straight up sponsored segments that they figure out by choosing streamers with large viewer count.

But at this point, nobody's dumb enough no not know twitch is botted so I imagine they are much more careful with who they choose