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YouTube alerts

YouTube alerts are the animations and sounds that appear on your stream when a viewer supports you: new subscribers, members, membership milestones, gifted memberships, Super Chats and Super Stickers. Trigglow listens to your YouTube channel, picks the alert that matches each event and plays it centred on your OBS scene, with your own media, text and text-to-speech.

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Every YouTube event, its own alert

Each type of event has a separate alert, so a big moment never looks like a small one. Variations let one event change with the amount, the number of months, the platform or a first-time supporter.

  • New subscribers
  • New members and milestones
  • Gifted memberships
  • Super Chats and Super Stickers

Animated YouTube alert templates

Start from built-in animated templates or upload your own GIFs, PNGs, transparent WebM videos and sounds. Change the text, colours, size and duration of each alert, and read the viewer's message out loud with text-to-speech.

Chat commands and song requests on YouTube

Beyond alerts, the Trigglow chat bot answers commands in your YouTube live chat and viewers can request songs with !sr.

  • Custom chat commands
  • Song requests
  • The same overlay as Kick and Twitch

How to set it up

  1. 1

    Connect YouTube

    Create a free account and connect your YouTube channel from the dashboard. Trigglow starts receiving your events right away.

  2. 2

    Pick a style for each alert

    Choose a template or upload your media for each event, then adjust text, sound and duration.

  3. 3

    Add the overlay to OBS

    Copy the overlay URL from the dashboard and paste it into OBS as a 1920×1080 Browser Source. Alerts from every connected platform play through that one source; nothing to install.

  4. 4

    Fire a test alert

    Press Test on any alert and check it in OBS before you go live.

FAQ

Why does a new subscriber alert arrive a little late?
YouTube does not push new subscribers live, so Trigglow checks for them every few minutes while you are live. Only public subscriptions can be seen.
Does YouTube have channel points?
No. YouTube has no channel points; members, Super Chats and paid alerts are the ways viewers support you there.
Can I bring the alerts I already have?
Yes. Paste the OBS URL of your current alert box and Trigglow imports the alerts with their images and sounds. Chat bot commands and timers can be imported too.
Is it free?
Yes. There is a free plan with no card required. Paid plans lift the limits and lower the fee on paid alerts; the Pricing page has the current details.

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