Twitch streamers around the world are constantly looking for ways to enhance their live streaming experience, engage with their audience in new and interesting ways, and naturally, maximize their revenue. One of the most important tools for it is extensions, which can revolutionize your stream. These extensions can add new features to your broadcast, improve your workflow, and broaden your monetization options.
Many tools for optimizing your broadcast exist outside of Twitch extensions, too. These third-party tools can be as common-place as Streamlabs, which is utilized by streamers all around the world for Twitch, YouTube Live, and other platforms. These tools can automate tasks just as extensions do, and provide valuable insight into your channel’s performance.
Throughout this article, Streams Charts has collated a list of some of the most useful Twitch extensions and tools for entertainment and monetization, giving you a perfect place to begin. Whether you’re an aspiring or established content creator, we’ll bring you some extensions and tools which can bring your content to the next level.
Stickybomb
Stickybomb is a one-stop-shop for streamers to cover a vast variety of their broadcasting needs, as well as some optional tools which may boost your stream to the next level. Stickybomb offers a unique way for fans to interact with broadcasts, through placing stickers anywhere on the stream. This emoji communication is perfect for interacting with the stream’s chat, an important task for any broadcaster.
Stickybomb also offers a wide array of custom content. Not only are custom stickers available for use, but it can also bring mini-games to your broadcast for viewers, and tools which will help you to manage your stream. All contained in a single overlay, this simplified and compact tool is optimal for streamers who want to cover a lot of ground through one tool.
Stickybomb also offers automatically generated highlights, taking a weight off the stream’s shoulders. Creating short-form content out of longer streams is a surefire way to gain a following on other social media and expose your brand to new fans, but this task can often be highly time consuming. In recent years, many AI-powered and automatically-generating highlight reel tools have come into the industry, allowing streamers to create quick short-form content for other platforms, allowing them more time to focus on the creative side of work.
Stickybomb also boasts a 0% commission fee. Stickybomb offers in-house monetization options for your broadcast, takes no commission, and protects broadcasters from chargebacks: something which other payment processors like paypal cannot guarantee. With Stickybomb streamers can safely and confidently broadcast with all the tools they need at the ready.
TipeeeStream
TipeeeStream is one of the best ways for streamers to collect donations and streamline the process for the donator. It also offers a custom creator for alert messages, scene creators for your broadcast, and pays out more for streamers than Twitch and other competing live streaming platforms.
TipeeeStream prides itself on customizing a streamer’s broadcast to both engage with their audience as best as possible and encourage the monetization of your channel. With custom alerts for tips and donations and specially crafted scenes for your alerts, users are presented with a unique experience when donating, and the broadcaster can interact with donations in a public way which brings it to the attention of other viewers.
Muxy
Muxy is a live streaming analytics company which not only deals with data, but also custom-crafted extensions for streamers. The company operates out of the United States and provides streamers with custom overlay and Twitch extensions to create a unique experience for viewers.
For game developers, Muxy allows these devs to create their own custom stream overlay extensions for games, allowing streamers another way to interact with the game, and enhancing the experience of their viewers. Muxy’s analytics also provide detailed insights into game performance on Twitch for developers. For streamers, this can allow them to finely craft their content.
Muxy specializes in real-time overlays, which not only constantly update to keep viewers fully in-the-loop, but can even quickly teach new viewers how a certain game is played, or what exact scenario a streamer finds themselves in in-game. Again, for game developers, the custom extension for their game title can be tied directly to the game itself, redirecting interested fans directly to the game’s page. This seamless transition smooths the buying process for a prospective customer, and combined with affiliate links for content creators this can become an optimal dynamic for both streamers and developers.
Blerp
Blerp is a website that hosts short sharable soundbites (under 10 seconds long). The soundbites are usually memes, parts of a song, or sound effects, and the website can be used as a soundboard. More importantly for Twitch streamers, the platform also hosts a Twitch extension: Blerp Sound Emotes for Twitch.
With this extension, viewers of a broadcast can activate sound effects, which will play for both the streamer and the rest of the viewers. While a fun idea, the extension’s true power comes in the form of its monetization options. Customisable cooldowns, Bit prices for sounds, and subscriber-only sounds are all ways in which Blerp can incentivize your viewers to donate to your stream and support your broadcast.
Blerp has also taken no shortcuts. They have licensed these 10-second sounds from creators, brands, and studios, meaning copyright infringement won't be a problem with their sound effect library. Streamers can also upload their own content, allowing flexibility and customization through creativity for broadcasters to play around with. Blerp also provides streamers with a separate audio track for the sound effects, meaning they can be easily removed in post-production if you wish to create short-form content from the live stream without all of the sound effects playing.
Streamlabs Stream Scheduler
Streamlabs is one of the best-known names in live streaming when it comes to third-party tools. They have created some of the most useful and intuitive tools used by streamers around the world, and they are constantly releasing new extensions, tools, and methods for streamers to add that much-needed personal touch to their broadcasts. The Streamlabs Stream Scheduler is one of their many products.
One of the key factors for any aspiring streamer is their schedule. Streaming at roughly the same time on the same days every week allows viewers to know when you’re streaming, making them more likely to tune in rather than streamers going live at a randomly different time each day. Streamlabs developed an extension that allows streamers to add a schedule to their Twitch page, as well as a countdown for viewers to excitedly wait for the stream to start.
Not only is this available for Twitch, but Streamlabs also has similar products that can be used on YouTube Live, as well as other live streaming platforms. For YouTube in particular, this tool allows streamers to schedule their live stream for a time in the future, adding a page to their channel where fans can see when the live stream is starting, and be ready to hop in and watch.
Streamlabs Merch Extension
Streamlabs once again offers some of the most unique and exciting tools for broadcasters available today. One of the most innovative extensions of theirs is the Streamlabs Merch Extension for Twitch, which connects users to your brand’s merchandise in a way which is entirely optimized.
Streamers and content creators with a merchandise store can connect this store’s link to the extension, and then allow viewers to shop and peruse their merchandise directly on the stream overlay. Critically, this allows viewers to browse products sorted by category, view all of your available items, and purchase merchandise without even leaving the broadcast.
Allowing users to do their shopping while still staying on the stream page is a dream for many broadcasters. Users can support the streamer with one of the most seamless product integrations and smooth purchasing processes; streamers can both increase their profit margins and grow their brand at the same time.
PTZOptics Twitch Camera Control Extension
PTZ are cameras that are enabled to pan, tilt, and zoom. These cameras can point in any direction, and are therefore perfect for streamers which are moving around and constantly engaging their audience in new ways. PTZOptics is a manufacturer of robotic PTZ cameras, and their custom PTZOptics Twitch Camera Control Extension sets their product ahead of the competition for content creators.
Their extension allows broadcasters to give their viewers control of the camera. The use for this extension is endless; streamers can allow fans to interact with a broadcast in real-time, allowing real-time engagement which the vast majority of broadcasters cannot achieve. This would be perfect for a real-life event with a camera set up in the middle of the action or even just in a content creator’s streaming room, allowing fans to peek around the room for themselves.
The extension also comes with a variety of modes. Streamers can choose to limit camera controls to Subscribers only on Twitch, a prime monetization tactic for the extension, or even charge bits for access to the camera controls. These two monetization options are ways for streamers to reward viewers who actively support the stream, and the camera control tools are an encouraging way for fans to engage with the broadcast.
This selected shortlist of extensions and third-party tools only scratches the surface of what is available for streamers of all platforms out there. Twitch broadcasters can explore Twitch’s handy extension tab to their heart’s desire, and there are countless stream management third-party tools for broadcasters to find and use.
Monetization is a key part of any content creator’s job, and the wide array of extensions and tools available for these broadcasters has made it easier than ever before for streamers to monetize their content in fresh, engaging, and innovative ways.