Twitch cut the Affiliate bar in June 2025 and most guides never updated. The current requirements are 25 followers, 4 hours streamed, 4 broadcast days and 3 average viewers on 4 of them, all inside a rolling 30 days.
Twitch Partner does not need 12 stream days or 25 hours. It needs six streams at 75 average viewers in the 30 days before you apply, and six more in the 30 days before that. Here is the full 2026 criteria, how the Path to Partner achievement counts, what Partner still gets you now that subs and Bits are open to everyone, and what happens if you lose the status.
A Twitch overlay is the layer of graphics your streaming software draws over your gameplay before the video ever leaves your computer. Here is every part of one, what each piece does, and what changed when Twitch added a vertical canvas.
Every Twitch image size, checked against Twitch's own help pages and its image CDN on 19 August 2026: what Twitch actually publishes, the two specs it contradicts itself on, and the widely quoted numbers with no source behind them.
Everything you need to go live on Twitch in 2026: account setup, OBS, the bitrate and upload figures Twitch actually publishes, vertical Dual Format streaming, and what Affiliate and the Plus Program pay now.
