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The ad widget tells your viewers what’s happening with ads. A few minutes before an ad, it gives them a heads-up. While the ads run, it counts down to when you’re back. After the break, it says thanks. The rest of the time it stays out of sight.

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Add it

In the overlay editor, open Widgets → Ads and add Ads.

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Where the timing comes from

  • Before an ad: from your ad schedule in Twitch’s Ads Manager. The widget checks it every minute, and every 15 seconds once an ad is close. If you snooze an ad, the countdown moves within about 15 seconds.
  • During the break: Twitch tells StreamWizard the moment an ad break starts and how long it runs. The countdown starts right then, for scheduled ads and ones you run yourself.
Twitch only schedules ads while you’re live and have ads switched on in Ads Manager. Open Ads Manager on Twitch in the widget settings takes you there. If no ad is scheduled, there’s no heads-up, but ad breaks still show when they start. If the settings show a Connect Twitch button, StreamWizard can’t read your ad schedule yet. One trip to Twitch and you’re set.

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Designs

In the last 10 seconds before an ad, the accent pulses so the heads-up is hard to miss.

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See it before you go live

The settings have three test buttons:
  • Ad coming shows the heads-up. It plays on the editor canvas only: Twitch has no event for an upcoming ad, so there’s nothing to send to your live overlay.
  • 30 s break and 60 s break play an ad break. They follow the demo bar’s Local and Live switch.
The same buttons sit in the Ads row of the editor’s Demo bar. After a test, Back to your Twitch schedule puts the real schedule back.

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Settings

  • When: show it before an ad (and how many minutes before, from 30 seconds to 10 minutes), during the break, and a welcome back for 5 seconds after.
  • Text: the line before an ad, during the break and after it. {time} becomes the countdown, like 1:30. The Card also has a message line for the break.
  • Colors: accent, background, text, background opacity and corner radius.
  • Font: font, weight, size, and a shadow that keeps it readable over bright games.
  • Motion: how it appears and hides.
If reduced motion is switched on in the system settings of the computer running OBS, the widget plays it still: no pulse, and the countdown line jumps instead of running down smoothly.