Is Partner automatic when I hit the requirements?

No. Completing the Path to Partner achievement unlocks an application, which Twitch reviews.

Do raided viewers count toward the 75?

While they are watching, yes. Twitch's review looks at whether the average depends on them.

What is the Plus Program?

A better sub split — 60/40 at 100 sub points, 70/30 at 300 — available to Affiliates and Partners alike since 2024.

How long does the review take?

Typically two to four weeks. A rejection can be reapplied for later.

Twitch Partner Requirements 2026: The 75-Viewer Average

Affiliate is a checklist. Partner is an application, and the number that decides it is the one most streamers misunderstand: a 75-viewer average, measured across every minute you stream.

The Path to Partner achievement lists three requirements over 30 days: 25 hours streamed, on 12 different days, with an average of 75 concurrent viewers. The first two are effort. The third is the wall — and completing all three does not make you a Partner. It unlocks the application.

How the 75 is calculated

Average concurrent viewers is total viewer-minutes divided by minutes streamed, over the 30-day window. It is weighted by time, so a four-hour stream with 40 viewers counts four times as much as a one-hour stream with 40 viewers — and a long quiet stream drags the whole month down. Streamers who hit 75 on their best nights and 30 on their worst are averaging 50. The average viewers calculator does the exact weighting from your stream history.

Why hosts, raids and embeds are excluded

Twitch counts only viewers who arrive at your channel directly or through the directory. Raided viewers count while present, but Twitch's Partner review looks at the underlying pattern, and a channel whose average is propped up by daily raids from one friend is read as such. Embedded views from external sites are excluded from the metric entirely.

The Affiliate calculator's bottleneck logic applies here too, at a higher bar. A channel at 60 average is not "close"; it needs the next several streams to average well above 75 to pull the month up. That maths is why so many channels stall in the 50s.

The application

Once the achievement completes, you apply. Twitch reviews the channel for: consistent schedule, content that fits the Partner brand, no recent enforcement actions, and — this is the part nobody mentions — whether the audience looks organic. Reviews take a few weeks. A rejection can be reapplied for after a period. Partners also arrive by invitation, which skips the achievement entirely; that route is for channels Twitch already wants.

What Partner changes

Sub split: still 50/50 by default, with the Plus Program (60/40, 70/30) available on sub-point thresholds regardless of Partner status since 2024.
Emote slots, badges, transcoding priority — guaranteed quality options for viewers, which Affiliates get on a best-effort basis.
Ad revenue share and the ability to run ads on demand with better rates.
Verification checkmark and access to Partner-only programmes and events.

Getting to 75

The same loop as Affiliate at a larger scale: channels in the upper half of a category directory get discovered, discovered channels gain viewers, viewers raise the average, the average raises the directory position. Held-viewer sessions are used at this level to hold a channel in the visible part of a category while its organic audience catches up — the rank estimator shows what viewer count reaches page one in a given category, and it is almost always less than 75.

Twitch Partner requirements in 2026: the 75-viewer average, explained