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An overlay is a graphic that is laid over the top of the video and shows permanently on the stream. Most overlays are very decorative and act as a sort of frame for the video. You can think of it as a designed template. You can design your own and there are a number of services that provide them for free or will design one for you for a reasonable fee.

It’s also technically anything laid over the stream permanently, so an overlay can BE an Event List or an overlay can be a fully designed template that CONTAINS an Event List. This streamer’s overlays include the URL in the bottom right of the video, the song list at the top left, the event list, and the frame behind her side-view video. In some services, you program these all in one overlay template, in others you can add each element individually.

There are so many kinds of things you can put on your stream. We’ll talk about that more later.

Note: overlays do not have hyperlinks. Viewers cannot click them. Twitch does have a number of Extensions (similar to an app) that you can put on the Video Player that when clicked can enable things like taking polls, but that is different from an Overlay.