Twitch has announced a new 100-hour storage limit for Highlights and Uploads content, effective April 19, 2025. 

The Amazon-owned streaming platform confirms the restriction applies to all Highlights and Uploads on creators’ channels, regardless of publication date, while preserving Past Broadcasts and Clips.

The platform reports that less than 0.5% of active streamers currently exceed the new storage threshold. Channels exceeding the limit after the April deadline risk automatic content deletion, beginning with least-viewed Highlights.

“Channels still over the storage limit after April 19, 2025, will risk having their Highlights and Uploads automatically deleted, starting with Highlights with the least views, until they are under the limit,” Twitch stated in its announcement. The platform emphasized this deletion process would occur only once to bring all channels under compliance.

New Management Tools and Strategic Rationale

To support the transition, Twitch is introducing a video storage tracker in the Creator Dashboard, allowing streamers to monitor their storage usage. Additional features, rolled out last week, include the ability to sort Highlights and Uploads by creation date, length, and view count.

Twitch explained the strategic reasoning behind the change: “Highlights haven’t been very effective in driving discovery or engagement with viewers compared to features like Clips, Tags, and the Mobile Discovery Feed.” 

The platform noted that while some users have accumulated thousands of hours of content, this material represents less than 0.1% of hours watched.

The company framed the decision as a resource management strategy, stating that the storage of this content is costly. Twitch indicated the change would enable continued support for Highlights and Uploads while allowing investment in more effective viewer engagement tools.

The platform recommends that affected creators download or export any content they wish to preserve before deletion.

Twitch maintained stable viewership in 2024, with 18.5 billion hours watched, compared to 18.9 billion hours in 2023, according to recent reporting from StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg. The platform’s daily viewership showed strong performance in Q1 and stabilization through early Q4 last year. The slight decline in total watch hours coincided with creators increasingly adopting multi-streaming practices and exploring presence on multiple platforms.