If you are a Twitch streamer, how will you expand your community? Surely, with good content! But sometimes interacting and listening to subscribers is the most integral factor to expand a community on Twitch. This is where gift subs come into the picture. Think of subs as a gesture to thank the streamer on Twitch for their work. A streamer can even give away subs to any random viewer on his channel. Scroll down till the end to know all about the meaning of gifting subs on Twitch.
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Twitch Gifting Subs Meaning
You may have listened to countless streamers thanking their subscribers for their gifted subs. But what are subs? Subs are a gift in the form of money from subscribers to streamers as a token of appreciation or admiration. There are different gift subs available on Twitch. You can gift subs to a streamer for a month, 3 months, 6 months, or a year with different tiers. A streamer gets 50 percent of the total cost of the sub while the rest goes to Twitch.
How many tiers are there on Twitch?
There are 3 different tiers for gift subs.
- If you gift a Tier 1 sub to a streamer it will cost $ 4.99
- For Tier 2 sub, it costs $ 9.99
- And for Tier 3 sub, it costs $24.99
You can also cancel the subscription anytime if you change your mind. The bigger the community of a streamer, the more you will save up on the subscription with their offers. Now let’s look at How to Gift subs?
How to Gift Subs to Streamers on Twitch?
- Click on the Subscribe option right next to Follow.
- Select Gift a Sub and then pick one out of three Tiers.
- Then select the quantity of the subs you want to gift.
Are there any perks to Subs on Twitch?
Following are some perks by streamers to their subscribed audience:
Stream Ad-Free content
- Imagine you are watching thrilling live gameplay and suddenly an ad pops up. Won’t that be annoying?
- If you have subscribed to their channel, you can access their streams with no advertisements.
Exclusive Sub-only Chat
- You can interact with your subscribed Twitch streamers by chat feature.
- What’s interesting is that you can chat with them as they stream online and interact with you.
Channel points
- These are the perks given to subscribers by streamers once they subscribe to their channel.
- They can be in the form of emotes, sub-emotes, and badges given by streamers for their subscribers to interact.
- You can get an emote of Highlighting your message on the chat by the streamer.
- You will also get several badges by the streamer to mark the months or years you have been in the community.
Exclusive Subscriber Streams
- Subscriber streams is the newest feature added to the Twitch community.
- It allows you to join an exclusive stream of your subscribed channel and interact or enjoy their streams.
- This feature can be useful to streamers to host a specific event-related stream on Twitch.
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