Last Updated: March 20, 2026
A Raid sends your audience to another channel the moment your stream ends. The hand-off is time-sensitive. Streamers have seconds to make raiders feel at home. The unofficial window is 10 minutes.
Most raids fail for the same reasons: cold reception, video ads, poor quality, a culture gap. If raiders don’t feel a shared vibe, they bounce.
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