Two channels, one community.
Your main channel goes live 20 hours a week. A second one, yourname_247, replays your archive the other 148. The audience moves between the two by raid.
A 24/7 second channel keeps your community somewhere to land when you are offline. Streamers who run one raid it at the end of their live, and raid back to the main channel when they go live again. The 24/7 channel is never a cold start, and the main channel opens with viewers already there. Twitch has no rule on raiding your own channel; its written rule is against artificially inflating viewer stats, which real viewers following a raid are not.
The loop.
Four moments, every stream day.
- You go live
Raid in
The 24/7 channel is already running with viewers. Raid it to your main channel: the live opens with an audience instead of zero.
- During the live
The 247 keeps playing
It stays on the directory in your categories with your VODs. Its title and description point to your live.
- You end the live
Raid out
Raid your viewers to the 24/7 channel. They land on a VOD they may not have seen, and a chat that votes on the next one.
- Overnight
The chat programs
Requests and polls every VOD. Subs, bits and follows on the second channel while you sleep.
What it changes.
Measured on the channel this product copies.
No cold start
Both channels open with viewers who were already watching the other one.
Always listed
A live channel appears in the directory and in search. The reference channel holds 2,200 viewers around the clock.
A place to land
A community with a channel that is never offline has a chat that never empties.
Its own revenue
Subs, bits and gifted subs on the second channel, without you at the keyboard.
Your archive, seen
96 % of a large archive has never aired. The second channel gives old streams a first audience.
Separate identity
The 24/7 channel is labelled as a replay. Nobody confuses it with your live, and your main channel stays live-only.
What Twitch writes.
No rule addresses raiding your own second channel. Three rules apply around it.
Raids are a feature
Sending your audience to another channel at the end of a stream is a built-in Twitch feature, documented in Twitch help.
No fake stats
Artificially inflating follow or live-viewer stats is prohibited. Real people following a raid are not that. Bots are.
Label the replay
The 24/7 channel is pre-recorded content and must say so: tags, title, and the Rerun checkbox on the Twitch side.
Setting it up.
Twenty minutes, once.
- 01
Create the second account
yourname_247 is the convention. Enable Store Past Broadcasts is not needed there: it only replays.
- 02
Point it at your archive
Authorize the second account as the channel in VOD247, and declare your main account as the source of the VODs.
- 03
Write the bio and panels
Both channels link to each other. VOD247 generates the description, the go-live text and three panels from your channel to paste in.
Questions.
Can I raid my own second channel?
Raids are a supported Twitch feature and no rule addresses self-raiding. What is prohibited is artificially inflating stats; real viewers following a raid are not that.
Does a 24/7 channel hurt my main channel?
It is a separate account with its own stats. Your main channel’s numbers are only its own lives. The raid loop adds viewers at the start of each one.
Does VOD247 raid automatically?
No, and it will not. A raid is your decision, made from your live. There is no auto-raid feature, by design.
Can the second channel become Affiliate?
Twitch’s criteria are followers, hours, days and average viewers over 30 days. They do not mention the type of stream either way. We do not claim what Twitch does not write.