Twitch rerun rules: what the policy actually says.

Pre-recorded content is in the Terms.

The Terms of Service settle the question in one clause. The rights you grant Twitch cover live and pre-recorded works, side by side, with no separate permission to request.

Nothing in the Community Guidelines bans a 24/7 channel either. The word does not appear, and no article lists the format as prohibited.

What is left is what the written rules ask of a channel: labelling, ownership, and a cap per broadcast. All three are on this page.

Twitch tells you to stream from your encoder.

The on-demand help page has a section named Rerun Queue. It names the thing, and it names the mechanism: your own encoder, pushing your own VODs.

A 24/7 channel is an ordinary broadcast whose video source happens to be a file. Replaying a VOD from an encoder is not a workaround around Twitch; it is the procedure Twitch documents.

The page says nothing about hours counting towards a program, in either direction.

The three labelling steps Twitch asks for.

The same help page lists three gestures, in its own words, and none of them takes more than a minute.

They are cheap, and they are the difference between a channel that reads as honest and one that reads as a trap. A replay announced as a replay costs nothing.

• "Select the 'Rerun' checkbox in the Edit Stream Info panel"
• "Add '[Rerun]' to the beginning of your Stream Title"
• "Add '[Rerun]' to the beginning of your Go Live Notification copy"
• Keep the three on every broadcast, not only the first one.

Generate a compliant title.

Your title, the token Twitch writes, and the date of the original VOD. Computed in your browser, sent nowhere.

Replay only what you own.

The Community Guidelines are direct about ownership. Sharing content on your channel that you do not own is not allowed, and a replay is sharing.

Your own past broadcasts are yours, so a channel replaying its own archive is inside that line. That is the ordinary case.

A second account changes nothing to the rule. A 24/7 channel replaying another account's VODs needs a written licence from that account, kept on file.

That licence is not a formality to skip because both accounts belong to the same person. Twitch cannot see who owns what, and neither can a takedown.

Do reruns count towards Affiliate?

Affiliate has four criteria, all measured over the same 30 days. They are published on one help page, and they are the numbers the checker below uses.

Reach 25 followers. Stream for 4 hours. Stream on 4 different days. Reach an average of 3 viewers. The same page adds that days below 3 average viewers do not count against you, and that all times are in GMT.

• "Reach 25 Followers".
• "Stream for 4 Hours".
• "Stream on 4 Different Days".
• "Reach an Average of 3 Viewers", on 4 different days.

The Partner criteria, as published.

Partner is measured on the Achievements page, and it is a different shape. It counts streams and viewers rather than followers and hours.

The published line is 6 streams on 6 unique days with an average of 75 viewers in the last 30 days. Meeting it makes an account eligible, and nothing more.

Here too, the criteria say nothing about the type of stream.

• 6 streams.
• 6 unique days.
• An average of 75 viewers over the last 30 days.
• Eligibility, not an automatic status.

Check where you stand.

Your last 30 days, as shown in your Achievements dashboard. Computed in your browser, sent nowhere.

Do not farm, do not inflate.

The Guidelines name two practices that look like a 24/7 channel from a distance, and are the reason the format has a bad reputation.

The first is Drop farming. Streaming VODs or a static image with the core purpose of farming Drops is listed as prohibited.

The second is inflated statistics. Artificially boosting follower counts or live viewer counts is prohibited, which rules out view bots and fake chatters.

A channel replaying a real archive to real viewers is neither of those. The difference is whether a human is on the other side, and that difference is visible in the chat.

• No static image looped to collect Drops.
• No view bots, no purchased followers, no fake chatters.
• No second stream whose only purpose is a reward queue.
• Real viewers, voting in a real chat, on real content.

What about the PewDiePie ban?

It comes up in every thread, so here are the facts. In March 2023 PewDiePie launched an Infinity Stream: about 400 of his YouTube videos, looping on Twitch, around the clock.

That channel was banned four times. May 2023, July 2023, then 3 October 2024, simultaneously with the Shroud and Lirik replay channels, days after a Community Guidelines update on unoriginal content. The fourth came on 12 October 2024, during an old Amnesia episode, with the audience down 88 per cent.

Twitch never published a reason for any of them. Every ban was temporary, the channel came back, and press coverage (Dexerto, WIN.gg, Sportskeeda, TalkEsport) reports the same blank: no statement, no category, no appeal made public.

The case proves nothing about 24/7 channels being banned as such, and nothing about labels either. A channel that ticks the Rerun checkbox, prefixes its title and replays its own archive is not ambiguous to anyone, human or automated.

• March 2023: Infinity Stream launched, roughly 400 YouTube videos on a loop.
• Four bans: May 2023, July 2023, 3 October 2024, 12 October 2024.
• Twitch published no reason, in any of the four cases.
• All four were temporary. The channel came back every time.

Two limits every replay inherits.

A broadcast stops at 48 hours, so VOD247 cuts first, between two VODs, around 12 hours.

Audio that Twitch muted stays muted on the replay, and the dashboard shows the count of muted segments before a VOD reaches the queue.

• The 48-hour limit, step by step
• Muted audio and DMCA on reruns

What VOD247 does with this.

The product was built against the list above, line by line. Nothing here is a setting to remember, except the checkbox that lives in the Twitch dashboard.

The one thing it does not do is claim a result. Twitch publishes no exclusion for replayed streams, and VOD247 does not turn that silence into a promise.

• A channel replays its own archive, or a declared source with a licence note on file. There is no other option in the product.
• VOD247 sets the prefix and the tags; the Rerun checkbox is in your Edit Stream Info panel, to tick once.
• The broadcast comes from the VOD247 encoder, the mechanism the help page describes.
• The session is recycled around 12 hours, between two VODs, well under the 48-hour cap.
• No view bots, no fake chatters. The automatic raid, once turned on, moves real viewers, once per live. What the chat votes on is what the chat votes on.
• Twitch reports the muted segments of each VOD. VOD247 stores that count and shows it before the VOD reaches the queue.
• Nothing in the product claims that replayed hours count towards a program, because Twitch does not write it.