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by pclmulqdq 896 days ago
They do give streamers a button to run an ad break, but they force ads on you if you don't run them often enough. That is very common for many streamers, because the ad breaks hit a large fraction of your viewers and it sort of kills the conversation for everyone.
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Is there a button? I recently became affiliate but haven’t seen one, there is just controls for setting the intervals and the amount of time, with more perks as you increase the timeslots.
Can you use the /commercial command? That should fire off 30s of ads. You can also specify longer breaks with e.g. /commercial 120

Manually running enough ads should also stop the auto scheduler from running ads and disable prerolls too

Will try that, probably at the beginning of my stream when I have actually not started yet. Thanks!
I roughly remember that there was one for a time which allowed you to somewhat shift the scheduled hourly ads, but I think they might have removed it after testing. Through I think it also never worked really well either.
I believe the "run an ad" button is for partners.
Ah I see, not there yet ;)