Twitch’s Terms of Service contain a short list of things you agree to when you run a promotion — which includes any giveaway, contest or sweepstake you hold on your channel. Most of it is what you would expect: the promotion is yours, you are responsible for running it lawfully, and Twitch can remove it if it thinks you are not. The fourth item is the one with a specific sentence attached.
You will display or read out the following disclaimer when promoting, administering, or conducting a Promotion: "This is a promotion by [Your Name]. Twitch does not sponsor or endorse this promotion and is not responsible for it."
That is the whole requirement. Replace the bracketed name with yours and display it, or say it out loud, when you promote or run the giveaway. It is not long and it is not complicated, which is probably why it gets reproduced from memory rather than copied — and reproducing it from memory is where it goes wrong.
The five words that go missing
The version you will see most often on stream panels and in giveaway descriptions stops early: “This is a promotion by X. Twitch does not sponsor or endorse this promotion.” Full stop. The required sentence continues — “and is not responsible for it” — and those five words are doing the actual work. The first half says Twitch is not involved; the second half says Twitch is not liable. Dropping it leaves the sentence sounding complete while removing the part that most obviously protects the platform, which is the part they wrote it for.
Where to put it
The wording says “display or read out”, and “when promoting, administering, or conducting” — so anywhere the giveaway is presented counts, and more than one place is safer than exactly one. In practice: the panel or description where you announce it, the entry page if there is one, and out loud when you introduce the draw on stream. If your giveaway has a page viewers land on, that page is the strongest single spot, because it is the one every entrant actually sees.
It is worth noticing that a chat-command giveaway has nowhere obvious to put this. There is no entry page, so the disclaimer lives in a panel below the player that a viewer may never scroll to, or in a chat message that scrolls away in seconds. A giveaway with a page viewers open — because they scanned a code, or followed a link — has somewhere the sentence can sit permanently, in front of the person it is written for, at the moment they are deciding whether to enter. That is not an argument for any particular tool so much as an observation about where a required notice can actually live.
Why Twitch asks for it at all
A prize draw run by a third party on someone else’s platform creates an obvious ambiguity for viewers: it looks like it is happening on Twitch, in a Twitch player, with a Twitch chat next to it, so a reasonable person might assume Twitch is somehow behind it. If the prize never arrives, or the draw looks rigged, or the winner is asked for something they should not have given, the complaint lands at Twitch’s door — and the platform would rather it did not.
That is worth understanding rather than resenting, because it tells you what the sentence is for and therefore where it belongs. It is not a formality to bury; it is a statement to the entrant about who they are actually dealing with. Which is a good reason to put it where an entrant is looking at the moment they decide to enter, rather than in a panel three scrolls below the player.
Rules the platform does not ask for but you still need
The disclaimer names the promoter. It does not say who may enter, how old they have to be, whether a purchase is required, when entries close, or how the winner is chosen — and those are the things an entrant actually wants to know and a dispute actually turns on. A giveaway with a good disclaimer and no rules is still an argument waiting to happen the first time someone asks why they did not win.
The version most streamers actually ship
If you look at a few dozen giveaway panels you will see roughly four variants in the wild. The truncated one, ending at "endorse this promotion", is the most common by a distance. Then there is the paraphrase — "Twitch is not involved in this giveaway" — which says something similar but is not the sentence Twitch asked for, and the whole point of a required form of words is that it is a form of words. Third, the omission: no disclaimer at all, usually on smaller channels where nobody has ever mentioned it. And fourth, occasionally, a disclaimer naming the wrong platform entirely, copied from a template written for somewhere else.
None of these is a catastrophe on a channel of forty regulars giving away a Steam key. They matter more as the prize gets bigger, as the audience gets larger, and — most of all — if anything goes wrong, because the sentence is the one piece of evidence that you told entrants who was responsible before they entered.
What the disclaimer does not cover
Displaying Twitch’s sentence satisfies Twitch. It says nothing about the law where you or your entrants live, and it is not a substitute for the rest of your rules — who is eligible, the minimum age, that no purchase is necessary, when entries close and how the winner is picked. Twitch’s own terms make you responsible for all of that separately, including any registrations your prize might require.
This is also the point where the honest disclaimer applies to us: none of the above is legal advice. It is a reading of a publicly published document. A giveaway with a large prize, an entry fee, or entrants across several countries is worth a lawyer rather than a blog post.