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Clip scores you can trust (and everything else new this week)

Every ClipBot clip now has a public 0–100 score, a percentile calibrated on 53,060 clips, and broadcast pages sort best first. Plus: 28-hour streams clipped, opt-in Twitch posting of your top 3, eleven caption styles, new webcam styles and room for big monitors.

ClipBot team · October 27, 2026 · 5 min read

Every clip ClipBot makes now carries a public score from 0 to 100, and every broadcast page sorts its clips best first. That's the headline of a busy week. Below it: no more trouble with marathon streams, Twitch posting that only shares your best moments, eleven caption styles, new webcam styles, and a site that finally uses your big monitor.

0–100a public score on every clip

53,060clips the score is calibrated on

28.2 hlongest broadcast clipped

11caption styles

Clip scores you can trust

ClipBot has always rated every moment it clips, but the rating stayed behind the scenes, and for a good reason: on its own it isn't very readable, and it shifts whenever we improve how ClipBot judges moments.

So the new score is a percentile. A clip that scores 80 rates higher than about 80% of the clips ClipBot has made. Scores are calibrated on 53,060 clips and then frozen, so a clip's score never changes from one day to the next, and an old clip isn't inflated next to a new one.

90+: one of the best moments ClipBot has found.
70+: a strong moment, worth posting.
Under 70: still made the cut. Watch it before you post.

The score rates the moment, meaning what happens and what's said, not the quality of the video. It's public on every clip card, every clip page and every broadcast page, so viewers see the same number the streamer does.

The What’s the fire score? popover on a ClipBot broadcast page: a 0–100 pill, How strong ClipBot thinks this moment is, an explanation that it rates the moment and not the video quality, the 90+, 70+ and under 70 tiers, and a note that Best first puts the clips that became Shorts on top and that Shorts can also show viral potential — Every broadcast page explains the score in one tap: “What’s the 🔥 score?”

“Clip it” calls get their own badge

When a streamer says “clip it” on stream, ClipBot makes sure that moment gets clipped. Those clips don't get a number, because the streamer already judged them. Instead they carry a badge (“questje called ‘clip it’”, or “You called this one” on your own broadcast), a microphone marker on the stream timeline, and they rank at the top of the score order. ClipBot has clipped 2,657 of these calls so far.

Best first

Broadcast pages now open sorted Best first. The clips that became Shorts come first, in the order ClipBot ranked them as Shorts, then everything else by score. One tap switches to In stream order, and your browser remembers which one you like. The #1, #2 and #3 moment badges and the ranks on the timeline always follow the score, whichever order is on screen.

Viral potential on Shorts

Shorts get a second number, viral potential. Where the 🔥 score compares a moment against every clip ClipBot has made, viral potential asks how well the edited Short could do with people who have never seen the stream. It's built from five parts, and hovering the pill shows how the Short did on each:

Hook: do the first seconds make people stop scrolling?
Payoff: does it build to a punchline, reveal or big reaction, and land it?
Makes sense to a stranger: can someone who has never seen the stream follow it?
Emotion: does it make you laugh, gasp, cringe or get hyped?
Shareability: would people comment on it or send it to a friend?

It shows on Shorts made since October 22: on broadcast pages, in the Shorts feed, on clip pages and on profiles.

Anyone can upvote

Every clip and Short on a broadcast page now has an Upvote button for visitors, with no sign-in needed. Upvotes are how fans tell a streamer which moments landed, and they help clips earn a spot in the homepage showcase. To keep the count honest, a signed-out vote is remembered for a day, so opening a new tab doesn't let you vote twice.

Everything else new this week

Long streams, all of them

ClipBot has no 6-hour cap, and it never had one, but very long broadcasts used to hit a wall: three broadcasts of 20 to 28 hours failed. Now marathon streams are clipped like any other, with every word kept, and the streamer stays the same speaker from the first hour to the last (more on that in who said what).

The first broadcast through was the longest one we'd ever had: bloodclo's 28-hour Forza Horizon 6 stream. It got 15 clips, from 2 hours in to 27 hours in, plus a “clip it” call 12 hours in.

The stream timeline of a 28 hour 12 minute broadcast: audio and chat across the whole stream, AI clip markers spread from about 2 hours to about 27 hours, a clip it call near 12 hours and viewer clips — The timeline of a 28:12:06 broadcast: clips from start to finish.

Twitch posting is opt-in, and only your top 3

ClipBot can post your moments to your Twitch Clips tab. From this week it's opt-in, and it's more selective: Top 3 per broadcast posts only your three best moments with a 🔥 score of 70 or more. If you'd rather have every clean moment, pick All moments, or Off. Streamers who already had posting on keep it, switched to Top 3, with a one-time note showing what was posted and a button to turn it off. New streamers can switch it on from the card on their broadcast page, which previews exactly which clips would go up.

Eleven caption styles

Your Shorts branding page now has a caption style picker with eleven styles: Pop (the default), Bounce, One word, Boxed, Highlighter, Neon glow and Comic, and four new ones drawn by our new caption engine: Hook, Karaoke, Big word and Bloom. The highlighted word uses your brand colour. There's also a Yell effect: when you yell, that word gets bigger and shakes. ClipBot hears it in your audio, so it lands on the moment.

The four new caption styles on the line It’s huge run: Hook in white italic capitals, Karaoke with the spoken words in green and the next word in white, Big word showing only HUGE in large white capitals, and Bloom in white with a glowing blue outline — The four new styles: Hook, Karaoke, Big word and Bloom.

The Captions section of the Shorts branding page: a captions on switch, sizes Extra small, Small, Medium and Large, eleven caption style buttons from Pop to Bloom with Karaoke selected, and a Yell effect switch — Captions on the branding page: four sizes, eleven styles, and the yell effect.

Webcam styles

The webcam in your Shorts can now be a circle, a rounded box or a square, with an optional Twitch name tag under it: your Twitch name with the Twitch logo, in your colour. Three new layouts join split screen, floating webcam and gameplay only:

Gameplay in the middle: your webcam above a band of gameplay, over a blurred copy of the game.
Blurred background: sharp gameplay over a blurred copy of itself, with your webcam on top.
Two webcams: for duo streams, both faces on top and gameplay below. When only one person is on camera, that Short uses the split screen.

The Shorts branding page with Gameplay in the middle selected: on the left a preview with a circular webcam in a hot pink ring above a pink yourname Twitch name tag, gameplay in a band below and the caption It’s huge run; on the right the six webcam layouts, webcam shape buttons Rounded, Circle and Square, webcam sizes and the Name tag switch — Gameplay in the middle, with a circle webcam and the name tag, on the branding page preview.

Want to fine-tune one Short by hand? That's the rebuilt Shorts editor. And Stories can now run up to two minutes.

Made for big monitors

On a 2K or 4K monitor, ClipBot used to sit in a narrow column in the middle of the screen. Now pages grow with your screen: content is about 1,600 pixels wide on a 2K monitor and 2,200 on 4K, with even side margins. Shorts grids get bigger cards (from 160 up to 320 pixels wide) instead of more tiny columns, and the branding preview grows too. Blog posts keep a comfortable reading width.

A homepage Shorts row you can grab

The homepage opens on a row of real Shorts and Stories that drifts slowly across the screen. Now you can grab it: drag it with the mouse or swipe it on your phone and fling it either way, and it eases back into its drift when you let go. On phones it scrolls with your browser's own momentum. Tap a Short and it plays right there in a 9:16 player.

Small things

ClipBot+ gem: broadcast pages show the ClipBot+ gem next to a supporting streamer's name.
Transcripts open: the transcript on a clip page is open by default, with who said what.
Fresher clip ages: new clips no longer say “7 hours ago” the moment they're made.

Questions

What is the ClipBot clip score?

A number from 0 to 100 on every clip that shows how strong ClipBot thinks the moment is. It’s a percentile: a clip that scores 80 rates higher than about 80% of the clips ClipBot has made. It rates the moment itself (what happens and what’s said), not the video quality. 90+ is one of the best moments ClipBot has found, and 70+ is a strong moment worth posting.

Does a clip’s score change over time?

No. Scores are calibrated on 53,060 clips and then frozen, so a clip’s score stays the same and older clips aren’t inflated next to new ones.

What is viral potential on a ClipBot Short?

A second 0–100 number on Shorts. It estimates how well the edited Short could do with people who have never seen the stream, from five parts: hook, payoff, whether it makes sense to a stranger, emotion and shareability. The 🔥 score is different: it compares the moment against every clip ClipBot has made.

What does Best first mean on a broadcast page?

Best first puts the clips that became Shorts on top, in the order ClipBot ranked them as Shorts, then the rest by 🔥 score. “Clip it” calls rank at the top of the score order. You can switch to In stream order, and your browser remembers your choice.

Do I need an account to upvote a clip?

No. Every clip and Short on a broadcast page has an Upvote button for visitors, signed in or not.

Is there a stream length limit on ClipBot?

There’s no 6-hour cap. ClipBot clips the whole broadcast, and marathon streams are clipped like any other. The longest broadcast clipped so far ran 28.2 hours and got 15 clips, the latest 27 hours in.

Does ClipBot post clips to my Twitch channel automatically?

Only if you turn it on. Posting to your Twitch Clips tab is opt-in. Top 3 per broadcast posts your three best moments with a 🔥 score of 70 or more. All moments posts every clean moment, and Off posts nothing. Streamers who had posting on before keep it, switched to Top 3.

What caption styles can ClipBot Shorts use?

Eleven: Pop (the default), Bounce, One word, Boxed, Highlighter, Neon glow, Comic, Hook, Karaoke, Big word and Bloom. They come in four sizes, with an optional yell effect, and the highlighted word uses your brand colour. Pick one on the Shorts branding page.