A statement from the company reveals only four percent of streams used the programme.
Twitch’s in-house stream broadcasting software, Twitch Studio, is set to shut down at the end of the month, in order to allocate resources to new projects.
In a note added to one of Twitch’s official blog posts, they announced that support for the software will cease after May 30.
Despite the fact that the application was targeting streamers that were unfamiliar with typical broadcasting programs, the program is being discontinued after seeing an underwhelming amount of users.
In the blog post, Twitch says: “With less than 4% of total hours streamed coming from Twitch Studio users each month, the data shows us that most streamers quickly switch over to other streaming software like OBS, to take advantage of more advanced features.
“While we greatly appreciate our Twitch Studio streamers, we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue support to allow us to redirect our resources into areas that can better serve our wider community.”
Twitch streamer and content creator TheTwistedEcho spoke on the importance of a stable broadcasting program for streaming purposes.
He says: “Having one place for all your creation needs, which you can rely on being there everyday for the rest of your career, is absolutely essential.
“I really feel for those that used Twitch Studios because I know how hard it is to change your whole setup after all the work you have to put in to build it. To wake up and have to rebuild your entire streaming design – I can’t even imagine.
“Now these poor content creators have to go and learn a whole new program from scratch.”
Twitch noted that the clipping feature, improvements to mobile and the discovery feed where all areas which needed attention that influenced the decision.
The post went into plenty of detail on alternate solutions for streamers that used the software, including recommendations for OBS and Streamlabs.
The decision follows a roadmap laid out by Dan Clancy, the CEO of Twitch, which likely was a factor as the range of announced upcoming features will need attention from Twitch’s staff – which saw mass layoffs in 2023.
