A new, redesigned version of the Twitch mobile app will arrive this summer, as announced by CEO Dan Clancy at this year’s TwitchCon Europe event.
The redesigned app was first announced by Clancy in an open letter in March, detailing the company’s plans for 2024.
The new app was shown at TwitchCon Europe’s opening ceremony, along with other new features like Creator Clubs and Enhanced Broadcasting.
Mobile is a key area of focus for Twitch: 70 percent of new viewers start watching Twitch on mobile, so the aim is to make it easier for these viewers to find streams for shorter, more frequent visits. What’s more, 50 percent of all users are primarily using the mobile app (as well as desktop), while 40 percent are exclusively on the mobile app.
The Discovery Feed, first announced at last year’s TwitchCon Europe, is the main landing page of the app and allows viewers to find new streamers to watch based on recommendations through viewer settings and habits.
Eurogamer spoke with VP of product, community products Jeremy Forrester to discuss further the importance of mobile for the streaming platform.
“I think our mobile experience just hasn’t been invested in heavily in a long time,” said Forrester. “The previous experience works really well, for people who have been on Twitch a long time…but we’re really trying to strike that balance between helping streamers get discovered, helping new viewers find content, and really get engaged with communities, while at the same time still trying to make it as easy as possible for people that have been on Twitch a long time and use the app a lot to be able to get back to the channels they follow and go back to the creators that they know and love.”