Twitch is building a new feed that turns livestream clips into persistent highlight reels intended to help viewers discover creators.
Twitch chief executive officer Dan Clancy shared his company’s plans to develop the new feed, which Twitch is calling the Recaps Feed, during an interview with GamesBeat at Tokyo Game Show 2026. The tool allows creators to select between five and eight clips at the end of a stream, per Clancy, automatically creating a highlight reel that acts as a summary of the stream. Previously, creators who wanted to make highlight reels or stream summaries had to hire dedicated videographers or assistants to do so.
“From a viewer perspective, at any given moment of a stream, probably only 10 percent of your community is there, right?” Clancy said. “Even if they see a different part of the stream.”
Clancy described Twitch’s Recaps Feed as an evolution of the platform’s pre-existing Stories feed, which Twitch launched in 2023 to allow creators to share time-limited photos, text, and video clips directly with their communities. The Stories feed also includes Stream Recaps — top clips from each stream identified by Twitch — with Clancy noting that the overwhelming majority of Stories content is already clips posted using this tool.
The key change between Twitch’s Stories feed and Recaps Feed is that Twitch is moving the feed from individual clips toward pre-packaged, persistent highlight reels. By combining multiple clips into a single video that can be algorithmically recommended to viewers beyond a creator’s existing followers, the feed will act as a discovery channel for creators on the platform. Clancy didn’t confirm exactly when Twitch was planning to roll out the new feature, but said it would launch in “the coming weeks.”
“You can also go back and look at a Recap a week later, two weeks later — a year later,” Clancy said. “All of these reels will live on in perpetuity, so that gives you a very easy summary of your stream that’s targeted for the community.”
The growth of short-form video has resulted in the rise of a new marketing practice known as clipping, through which advertisers pay networks of smaller accounts on a per-view basis to distribute short clips across social platforms. 52 percent of respondents to Deloitte’s March 2025 Digital Media Trends survey said social media was their primary way of discovering new entertainment content, with 44 percent of fans discovering content on social media and then going elsewhere to watch or purchase the full version.
Twitch is currently involved in efforts to raise the value of its homegrown clips for brands and advertisers, per Clancy, who said the company wants to help creators more easily use clips to deliver sponsored content to their audiences.
“That will help our creators, because now, let’s say someone does a sponsorship on Twitch — it might only be 15 percent of their community that was there during the sponsorship,” Clancy said. “Create a clip from different pieces, redistribute it on Twitch, and you get greater reach, and that will help them make more money.”
Twitch’s plans to launch a dedicated Recaps Feed demonstrates the ongoing evolution of the platform’s approach toward short-form video and clipping. In the past, the company deprioritized the development of its clipping tools and feed product, viewing short-form video as a direct competitor to the platform’s long-form livestreamed content. But as short-form video increasingly soaks up eyeballs and clipping culture dominates social feeds, Twitch is positioning its livestreams as a source of authentic short-form content that can bring viewers back to the platform.
“I think it’s because these feeds are now, more and more, being dominated with AI, and you don’t know what’s real and what’s not,” Clancy said. “When you see a Twitch clip, it’s kind of messy and noisy, and you know it’s not AI. You look at it and you know this really happened.”