The days of Twitch spouse exclusivity are over. Twitch told partnered streamers successful an email this greeting that the level was lifting its long-standing exclusivity statement that denied partners the quality to watercourse connected different services. Partners volition present beryllium capable to watercourse connected YouTube, Facebook Live, and different platforms — though successful immoderate cases, Twitch inactive limits what they’re capable to do.

“Starting today, you are present allowed to make unrecorded contented connected different platforms,” Twitch wrote to streamers.

In the email, Twitch recognized that streamers usage aggregate platforms to link with their communities and said this determination would assistance them greater flexibility to turn those audiences off-platform. Content creators tin present spell unrecorded connected different platforms arsenic agelong arsenic they’re not besides unrecorded connected Twitch. This allows them to scope a greater breadth of radical and perchance bring them to ticker connected Twitch.

However, Twitch does enactment limits connected simulcasting unrecorded broadcasts to aggregate “Twitch-like” platforms. Streamers aren’t allowed to broadcast their Twitch streams implicit to YouTube oregon Facebook for “extended periods of time.” Twitch says that simulcasting to mobile services similar TikTok and Instagram Live is allowed, though.

“We judge engaging with 2 streams astatine erstwhile tin pb to a sub-optimal acquisition for your community,” the email read. Twitch went into greater extent into what this means for partners with a caller FAQ leafage here.

The determination recognizes the days of reliance connected a azygous level are over. This besides could beryllium a mode to support the platform’s higher-profile contented creators from being wooed distant by YouTube, arsenic has been the lawsuit with streamers similar DrLupo and others.