Twitch has been developing a discovery feed for livestreams and clips on mobile since last year, with the goal of giving viewers a new option to identify new broadcasters to follow and so spend more time on the network. Now, the company has announced that the feature will be available to all users later this month. The feed will display as a new tab in the mobile app, allowing viewers to navigate between scrollable feeds for livestreams and clips. The live feed, as the name implies, will display broadcasts from people they already follow as well as ongoing streaming from those they do not, based on their watch history. Meanwhile, the Clips feed will be updated with short clips from live broadcasts.
By tapping on the broadcasters’ avatars, users will be able to join in-progress streaming from the live feed and instantly enter theater mode. Viewers can check out the streamer from the Clips feed on Twitch, which will also indicate when the streamer is live. In case it’s unclear, Twitch clarified in its release that creators cannot directly upload to the discovery feed; rather, it would only aggregate broadcasts and clips from the service. Said another way, featured Clips will take precedence over non-featured ones, but getting highlighted on the feed is a random process.
The discovery feed launching this month isn’t its final form, though. Some users might start seeing the feed as their actual home page sometime next month, which is what Twitch had in mind for the feature in the first place. In early March, company CEO Dan Clancy said the service is giving its mobile app its first major redesign in years and that the discovery feed will be its new landing page.
