How to add links to your Twitch panels

A viewer raids into your channel, watches for a minute, then scrolls down below the player during a break. That's the moment your Twitch panels are doing their job, or sitting empty while someone who was curious enough to look closes the tab.

Panels are the block of images and links that live on your channel's About tab, below the video. They're where most streamers put their Discord, their socials, their tip page, and anything else they want a new viewer to find without asking in chat.

What a Twitch panel is

Each panel is one image, an optional title, and a short description. The description supports basic Markdown, so you can drop in a clickable link (or a few) even if the image itself only links to one place. There's no fixed limit on how many panels you can add, but most channels settle on somewhere between four and ten. Fewer than that looks unfinished, and much more than that means viewers stop scrolling before they reach the good stuff.

Panels are different from the two other places Twitch lets you add links. The plain text in your channel's About/bio field isn't clickable, it's just text. And Settings > Channel > Brand has a separate Social Links section for up to five simple icon links (Instagram, YouTube, X, and so on) that show near your username. If you only need icon links to your existing socials, that's the faster route. Panels are worth the extra setup when you want to say more than an icon can, like what a Discord server is for or why someone should click your tip page.

How to add one

1. Click your profile icon in the top right and go to your Channel page.
2. Open the About tab, scroll down, and toggle on Edit Panels.
3. Click Add Image on an empty panel box and upload your image.
4. Add a title, a short description, and the link you want the panel to point to.
5. Save, then toggle Edit Panels off to see how it looks to a visitor.

One catch: the panel editor only shows up in a desktop browser, either on twitch.tv or at dashboard.twitch.tv (which also works fine on a phone's browser). The native Twitch app for iOS and Android doesn't expose it. That matters more than it sounds. Twitch said in 2024 that more than half of its users mainly watch on a phone, and 40 percent watch only on a phone. If you only ever open the app, editing panels means switching to a mobile browser or a laptop.

Sizing your panel images

Twitch panels max out at 320 pixels wide. Height is flexible up to about 600 pixels, and anything bigger gets resized down automatically, often in a way that crops badly. A safe default is 320 by 160, wide enough to read a short message, short enough that four or five panels don't turn into an endless scroll. Save the file as a PNG or JPG under 1MB. If you're not designing your own, free panel templates from sites like Canva or Nerd or Die cover the standard sizes.

What to put in your panels

Pick the small number of things that change how a new viewer treats your channel, not everything you have a link for.

A Discord invite, if you have a server worth joining. This is the most common panel on Twitch for a reason. A live chat that outlasts the stream turns one-time viewers into regulars.

A tip or support link, whether that's Streamlabs, StreamElements, Ko-fi, or a Patreon. Say plainly what support goes toward, a new mic, more hours streaming instead of working a second job, whatever's true.

One link that covers everything else. Rather than a separate panel each for your X account, YouTube, merch store, and sponsor codes, point one panel at a single page that holds all of it. Say you're a variety streamer who posts VODs to YouTube, sells a small merch line, and has a rotating sponsor code. A Linky page can list all three, and you edit it from your phone the moment something changes, no desktop browser required.

Leave your Schedule out of panels entirely. Twitch's native Schedule tab already does that job, and a panel that just repeats it wastes a slot. And resist the urge to fill every remaining panel with a rules list or a vague nudge toward subscribing. One clear rules panel is worth more than three vague ones.

Keep them from going stale

A panel pointing at a Discord you closed six months ago, or a tip link for a platform you stopped using, tells a new viewer that nobody's home. Since Twitch only lets you edit panels from a browser, the ones that change often (this month's sponsor, a limited merch drop, a link to a new upload) are the best candidates to swap for a single page you can update from anywhere. How often you should update a link in bio is a good rule of thumb for that page too: whenever what's on it stops being true.

If you're rebuilding your panels from scratch, resist stacking ten links across five different panels. How many links you actually need in one place applies here as much as it does to an Instagram bio. Twitch also has a plain-text About field that some streamers forget entirely, worth a quick pass too if you haven't touched it. Here's how to add a link to your Twitch bio if that field still says nothing.

Building one Linky page for your Discord, socials, tip link, and whatever you're promoting this month means updating it once instead of hunting down every panel that mentions it. Start at lin.ky/i/for/content-creators and drop the link into your next open panel.