When :Kappa: :TriHard: or :SeemsGood: isn’t enough anymore, or doesn’t cut it in your live stream chats, well… you need a more expressive and customized Twitch emote, that you and your viewers can understand, enjoy more, and connect with.
What is Twitch emotes?
When words just aren’t enough, there is Twitch emotes.
Twitch emotes are tiny emojis/emoticons, that can be used in the Twitch chat by streamers and viewers to express their feelings, each has its own meaning and connotation. They’re also a way for Twitch Partners and Affiliates to connect with their subscribers/fans, and reinforce their branding and personalities.
With emotes, viewers can celebrate epic moments, have fun, spread love in chat, and become active members of that channel/community.
Custom emotes are only available for Twitch Affiliates and Twitch Partners.
Where to get/buy custom-made Twitch emotes?
There are many places/emote libraries where you can get free emotes, the popular ones are BTTV and FrankerFaceZ.
But if you want something original, unique, and custom… there is Fiverr’s new Twitch store. A new section in Fiverr’s marketplace dedicated to Twitch, where you can find services related to Twitch, from custom emotes, overlays, panels, widgets, screens, alerts, scenes, sub badges, and more. A good alternative for OWN3D.
Fiverr is an online marketplace for freelance services, with affordable prices, starting from $5 only. Tons of services are already listed there.
You can order your custom Twitch emote in 10 min:
- Go to Fiverr’s Twitch section
- Choose your freelancer (based on emotes, screenshots, and description)
- Place your order
- Order Requirements (answer the sellers’ questions and explain your needs)
- Wait for your delivery (something like between 24hours and 3days)
Important: Fiverr freelancers offer revisions after the delivery, in case you didn’t like the final results. You can also, talk to them in DMS while they are working on your order, to see the progress.
How many custom emotes can I upload as an Affiliate/Partner?
Twitch Affiliates will start with 5 standard emote slots and 1 additional slot for animated emotes, even if they have 0 subscriber points. (plus the Bit Reward emotes, Follower emotes, and Tier 2, 3 emote slots)
Twitch Partners will start with 10 standard emote slots and 5 additional slots for animated emotes, even if they have 0 subscriber points. (plus the Bit Reward emotes, Follower emotes, and Tier 2, 3 emote slots)
Info: Every tier 1 sub = 1 subscriber point.
Partners and Affiliates can unlock more emote slots as they grow.
To manage and upload your custom emotes, head to your emotes dashboard.
Custom Twitch emotes guidelines
There are a few things to consider before ordering/uploading your Twitch emotes:
1. Emote size
You can use the manual mode by uploading 3 square emotes in 3 sizes (28x28px, 56x56px, 112x112px) that are 100kb in size or less. But, it’s better to use Twitch’s auto-resize feature, you’ll only need to upload 1 square emote between 112x112px and 4096x4096px, of 1MB max in size, and let Twitch do the rest.
2. Emote format
Standard Twitch emotes must be in a .png format, not a jpg/jpeg.
Animated Twitch emotes must be in a .gif format.
3. Emote content
Emotes also have to respect Twitch policies. Examples of content prohibited from use in emotes:
- Hate
- Violence
- Drugs
- Nudity
- Sexual content
- Blood/gore
- Targeted harassment.
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