How to Add Twitch Alerts to Your Stream, Step by Step

Twitch alerts are added through an alert tool connected to your Twitch account, such as StreamElements or Streamlabs: you upload the alert file for each event, then put the alerts link into OBS as a Browser source.

Twitch events that can have alerts

• Follows and raids: work for any channel.
• Subscriptions, gifted subscriptions and Bits: need a channel in the Affiliate or Partner program.
• Donations: through the alert tool's tip page, which is independent of Twitch.

Steps

1. Sign in to the alert tool with your Twitch account.
2. Open the Alert Box settings and choose the event.
3. Upload the alert file (a WEBM with a transparent background) and set the duration, sound and message text.
4. Repeat for each event you want an alert for.
5. Copy the alerts link (Widget URL).
6. In OBS: Sources → + → Browser, and paste the link at 1920×1080.
7. Try it with the tool's test-alert button before you go live.

Tips for Twitch

• Flix Store alerts are delivered as a WEBM file with a transparent background, so you upload them to the alert tool as they are.
• Gifted subscriptions arrive in a row, so keep the subscription alert short or alerts will pile up.
• Make the follow alert shorter and quieter than the donation alert, since it plays more often.
• Set the alert's sound a little above the game and below your voice.

Browse Flix Store's ready-made alerts, which work on Twitch, Kick and YouTube. To pick a tool read Streamlabs or StreamElements, and for adding the source in detail read how to add an alert in OBS.