Why a streamer needs a website
Twitch is built around right now. When you're live, it's the best place in the world to be watched. When you're offline, a visitor to your channel sees a schedule, an offline banner and a list they have to dig through.
A website covers the rest of the week. Your best clips each get a page with a link you can share. A sponsor can see what your streams are like without making a Twitch account. Someone who searches for the game you're known for can land on a page of yours instead of someone else's.
What gets imported
When you connect Twitch, ShowHub reads three things from your channel:
- Past broadcasts. Your recent stream archives, with their titles, lengths and thumbnails.
- Clips. The moments you and your viewers clipped, which are often your most shareable content.
- Your live stream. While you're live, it shows on your site, so visitors can jump straight in.
Each broadcast and clip gets its own page, and new ones are added as Twitch makes them available.
Know how long Twitch keeps broadcasts
Twitch doesn't keep past broadcasts forever. How long they last depends on your account type, and on most accounts it's a matter of days or weeks, not months. Clips work differently and stick around.
ShowHub plays everything through Twitch's own player, so it can only play what Twitch still has. In practice:
- Clip the moments that matter. A clip outlives the broadcast it came from.
- Upload your best streams to YouTube as highlights or full VODs, and connect YouTube too. Those pages keep working for as long as the video is up.
Make stream pages worth finding
Stream titles are usually written for people browsing Twitch live, like "!drops NEW PATCH come hang". That's fine on Twitch and not very useful on a web page. Before you go live, a title that says what the stream is ("First blind run of Hollow Knight, part 3") reads better on your site and gives search engines something real.
On Pro, transcripts help talk-heavy streams the most: interviews, tutorials, Q&As and commentary. A three-hour stream produces a lot of text, and every topic you covered becomes searchable.