Heres a quick example screenshot for Mind Scanners: Dropped Frames example of the information widget That information box will collect information from the API and then present that information to the viewer. One of the features of the Dropped Frames Extension, that is used during Dropped Frames on itmeJP’s channel on Wednesday’s, is that I’ll push a Game Information box to the extension that shows information about the game the panel is talking about.
Instead, the company now says the extensions will be “coming soon.This will be the first post in a two/three parter on this extension since it also serves as a good example on how to utilise a number of Twitch and IGDB products/API’s to achieve the end solution! But today just an announcement post! Twitch had planned to make the extensions available to streamers tonight, but that’s been pushed back at the last minute. Completed extensions are then shown to creators in a new Extension Manager.Īt launch, extensions will be free, but Twitch tells us that monetization details are soon to come. More information about this will be announced at Twitch’s developer conference, TwitchCon’s Developer Day next month.
Developers will receive free asset hosting and fanout messaging to make it easier to get started, the company says. Twitch is also opening up the extension platform broadly to third-party developers, via its Developer Portal,.
Others are designed for more general use, like Streamlabs’ Loyalty, Music, Polls & Games, or Muxy’s Overlay and Leaderboard, for example.Ī full list of the new extensions is available on the Twitch blog here. League of Legends by OP.gg, Innkeeper: Interactive Hearth Overlay by Curse, and There are currently over 20 extensions available, including some game-specific ones like OP.gg for However, the Amazon extension is only one of many that will be available at launch. “Gear on Amazon achieves that by simplifying both the process for signing up to be an Amazon Associate and by making it so creators can showcase the actual products they are using and wanting to promote,” he said. To make these features easy to discover and intuitive to use,” said Piers Heaton-Armstrong, VPįor Affiliate Marketing at Amazon, in a statement. “When it comes to helping creators monetize through product recommendations, it’s important It only makes sense that Amazon would enable something similar for its Twitch streamers, as well. Last week, Amazon opened up its social media “Influencers” program to YouTube stars, allowing video creators to build their own curated shop, with its own short and memorable URL. This follows another recent move from Amazon to help video creators make money by promoting Amazon products, as it turns out. To create their list of suggested products, streamers will be able to sign up as an Amazon Affiliate, then browse the Amazon catalog and pick their favorite products, right from their Twitch dashboard, the company says. This extension will be available to both Twitch Partners and Affiliates, and is the first time that Twitch’s streamers have been invited to join the program, even though Amazon owns Twitch.