One thing I really discovered as a musician, never talk about the audience that’s not there. Talk about the audience that is there. I have seen musicians say, well, everybody left! Well that’s not true. You have four people watching you. The correct thing to say in that situation is, you all are super awesome, thank you for sticking around! Now you probably wouldn’t want to use that lingo on a live stream, but that’s the mindset to have. Be grateful for the viewers you do have. The followers you do have. Don’t focus too much on what you don’t have. Or you won’t have anything.
@@ImGerry For Twitch the main things I have done are: 1. Stay true to your schedule. Show up at the same time every week. Think of your stream as a tv show for your viewers. 2.Have topics/questions ready for when there's quieter moments (aka this video lmao). I follow a bunch of gaming twitter accounts, so I spend my mornings looking through tweets that could be good talking points for fellow gamers. 3. Stream with friends. This is something that I have done and it makes the experience a lot easier and fun. I play games with my buddies, they are apart of the whole streaming process, and they help get rid of silence when I don't have anything to say. 4. Play games with viewers. Some people go to twitch to find others to play with, and will go to channels with lower view counts cause they know they'll get a chance to play with someone. I have been playing Super Smash Bros. on stream with viewers and almost always see new faces. Not all of these tips will work for everyone, and the last tip isn't super scalable (cant play with every viewer u get) BUT it's whats been working for me thus far. Good luck on your journey!
Zuki13k cheers dude. I’ve done some of them and kind of working for a while. I’m almost hitting 4K followers on twitch I think my main problem it keeps them watching. Usually, I start the stream with 15 to 20 people but after 30/40min it drops to 5. That’s so sad and makes me feel so shit. I’ll try to focus on RUclips now and also have some topics that I think it’s relevant to my audience to try make my content more engaged. Thanks for the tips and good luck aswell.
The amount of content you push out is INSANE! Not just that, but it's valuable! I respect your hustle and appreciate your advice for my baby Twitch channel.
Speak to everyone as if they're a long-time friend, and always ask about their day, find good topics to make for. The more people you talk directly to, the more others feel welcome and know they will have fun.
I'm so grateful for this advice. Most advisors on how to stream just tell us to "Talk about whatever's on your mind" and whatever's on our mind tends to be whatever's happening in the game. I'm a new RUclips streamer, so I tend to bring a monologue topic anyway since I've got to fill an hour or two of stream by myself. I've been worried that doing this would hurt my interactivity, afraid once users discover me they won't chat so as not to interrupt, but until I can ask them to share their point of view, I think bringing thought-provoking topics is my value proposition. This video is so encouraging that I've got it mostly right: if anything, I may need to work on more implicit invitations to chat (like starting with a question), and understanding the audience I'm aiming for. (I'm eying your video on finding my audience in my "Suggested"s right now for my next watch.)
I have a similar story to others here. I stumbled across your channel looking for unrelated data and found a wealth of knowledge from your great struggle and experience, thank you for this content you put up, it's been a good learning experience in many other aspects of marketing your brand.
Always good to have a refresher on this kind of topic. Being able to monologue is incredibly important when the chat gets silent, but it's also important to give them a very open/obvious queue to jump in too. Thanks for this video Ashni!
I completely agree Ashni. It’s also good to recognize that conversation needs base knowledge and/or research on a topic and that thought work is really “work”. It takes honest “work” to improve in any field. Do you agree that many streamers don’t put in enough of this “work”? Thanks for the video!
Your latest videos are golden nuggets of wisdom! I can't say thank you enough! I am so inspired to create content and I feel like I now have practical steps to draw in the audience I want
This is absolute gold! I know you mentioned in the past having a question for chat, but I never understood how to implement that. These examples are extremely helpful and I'm definitely going to start trying them. Thanks so much, Ashni! PS I'd watch you stream DBD lol
This has helped me TREMENDOUSLY in terms of figuring out what I'm doing wrong when chatting! Now I have so many different ideas to help make chat a much more fun and interesting place. Thank you!
It's not awkward. It's terrifying cause of trolls in JC! :v But you're right. I'm slowly getting to be better in talking, currently slowly getting into part 2: ascending the game. The funniest part is, I can talk for ages, to myself, HECK, a story: When I was in Spain on student exchange, obviously wasn't streaming but had disgusting amount of time to do whatever, so we would sit and play games with friends that I went with. At some point they pointed out "hey are you streaming or making vids or something? You're talking like crazy when playing games" - they didn't know I actually did stream before. And so I became The Narrator of our sessions. But, when I sit and actually stream, I suddenly have tons of blocks, like the awereness of being live for X potential viewers was a switch that would stop me D: But, we gotta push past that! :D Also, amazing depiction of the average streamer :v
Thanks Ashni, the sticky note suggestion is a really good idea! While I've improved on monologuing, coming up with things to talk about is always tough. This will help for sure
Your videos are informative and you sing about things like me! I have a full time job but have always wanted to create a gaming community via Twitch/RUclips, so I am trying to get ahead of the struggle plateau by learning everything while I'm still a hatchling streamer :)
You’re basically describing exactly what I did on my Instagram live stream last week when I was driving! But somebody popped in and heard me talking and they asked if I was drunk LOL. At the time I assumed this was because they could see me just pretty much talking to myself and driving LOL but maybe it was a different reason or something. Like I can definitely monologue. Especially with something I already know I have an opinion on. Just ask everybody, what did you think about that latest animal crossing update? And then see what they say. Maybe they say things that I agree with or don’t agree with. Or if they say nothing, then I can get my own opinion
Thank you for this. You've done similar videos in the past , but I feel like you singled me out for this one. As a DBD streamer ( I'm really trying for variety but DBD is main game ) I sometimes don't always have chat chatting and monologue is something I seem to suck at. This video is helpful. Thank you
I’ve been doing this recently on my stream, just monologue-ing and asking open ended questions for chat when doing a boss battle so they can respond and I can kinda focus/reply on a loading screen. the one that got the most attention in chat was “what do you think happens in the afterlife” which sparked a whole lot of ideas and beliefs. I gave my thought at first which seemed a bit bizarre to say but got a lot of responses and people hung around.
This is legit exactly what I’m starting to look at. When my chat is popping it’s fine. But yeah the nights where I only have lurkers (hey I love my lurkers too) I feel the struggle. So I’ve been brainstorming on this very topic. So this video is super timely.
Lol. Soooo. Just doing the digital sticky note on my obs screen improved my ability to monologue tremendously. I streamed for 3.5 hours and had scant dead air. Sometimes chat was popping sometimes it wasn’t. Converted a couple lurks into follows. Night and day difference.
Yeah on Instagram live, the other night, I had multiple people stop by and tell me that they are just stopping by to say hi. Then they leave. I say hello and everything, but what good does that do me ha ha? I actually did a survey afterwards to get some feedback from people on why they didn’t want to stay.
Most responses I got were. They are not interested in that game, they are busy and they just wanted to say hi, or it was too late and they were going to bed.
The fermi paradox and the great filter are actually not just my fav things to talk about but my fav things to study about. I am a space nerd and the fermi paradox is both interesting and scary. I love talking about it on stream. And ahni. I recommend checking out a channel called Lemmino. Great source of amazing information that DEEP DEEP DEEP dives into the mysteries that surround many things.
Just Subbed. Thank you so much ur the twitch streamer who does indepth youtube videos to really help people on how to improve ur channel. By talking through the process.
I feel like this is something im not too bad at, but definitely picked up a bunch of good info. I definitely need to plan stuff to talk about more! Great Video as always!
I typically start my streams by chatting with people. I share what's been going on with me and my family since the last stream, talk about how everyone has been, and watch videos they've linked over in my discord. I don't start in the Just Chatting category though; typically I start in the category of the game I'm going to be playing. Should I start in Just Chatting or should I keep doing it as I have been?
I've got 14 followers (HAD 16 but ,....you know shit happens, lol) and It's important to tell them that you appreciate and love them all (at least that's what I do) and she's right talk to chat like you're talking to yourself while playing the game... You know "oh man that's BS!" or this game is really good it's easily one of my favs!"
Had the same issue when I was streaming yesterday. Dead chat after playing ACNH for hours after Cuphead. It was getting boring tbh, and had to end abruptly due to OBS problems.
I talk about what I'm doing in the game all the time. I do that even if I'm not streaming, I've always been a person that was very use to talking to themselves. when I was a kid, I loved playing with my toys by myself, so talking to myself was always something I've been very good at. But even talking to yourself has limits, you run out of things to say. So I started streaming again recently and I really love talking about the game I'm playing, so I always say what the plan is, where I plan to go next in the game and so on. So I started with "Might & Magic VI: the mandate of Heaven" anyone know that game? it's very old. a RPG game from 1998 made by New world Computing, a company that no longer exists. I know you heard about Heroes of Might & magic, becayse that's so popular. Well this game is set in the same universe as that one. So yeah, I talk about the game all the time when I play and I ask questions. But still, sometimes you do run out of things to say, even when you talk to yourself.
kurzgesagt is on of my favorite science Channel on RUclips since I like science also that is also partly why I got into youtube and especially twitch so I could not necessarily teach science but to share sciencetific ideas with others the only thing that is holding me back is the lack of a consistent audience to talk to plus in the future i want to do more of my own science content I just need the audience to support that
sometimes I feel like I got snapped into the shadow realm with how hard it is to make it, both on youtube( maybe doing reactions is not the best idea) and on twitch its like I exist but don't at this same time, but anyways... the baking will continue. good video tho
I'm a Podcaster and I realize that if I just talk like always while playing video games I become be a StreamCaster? By the way I already did this with FaceRig and was very fun thanks to Ashnicrist advices, I'll follow you until the very end, that is of course if COV&D doesn't end me first!! XD :O :(
Will you do a video on haters, like not just one off haters but ones that legit go out of their way to hate me and my content almost to the point that they are a fan like they dislike every video talk mad crap ect
i love your videos.... a huge help im trying my chances at becoming a content creator.... video games and the community have helped me through some shitty things in my life...... do u do one on one's with people??? i would by chance love to pick your brain sometime....
Super useful video as always! Also, Dead By Daylight is just a dead game, let's be honest, they just ban everyone eventually, even without reason, not a bad game, just bad systems behind it.
Would it be appropriate to talk about sports on stream? I’m an avid sports nut but idk If that would resonate with people? Anyways, thanks for the great video!
very good video! i try to work on that one being better to keep my chat alive so far i have streamed since 2017 my account on twitch are way older hehe its from back in the day it called justin.tv
Thanks I just hit 9k followers I’m always looking for ways to improve this helped a lot def gna revisit dbd and replicate to see if it makes a difference lol science purposes
to be honest? your 2nd example soundes fake and the constant talking just got on my nerves, i rather watch a generic Streamer than someone where i feel like they read a book.
One thing I really discovered as a musician, never talk about the audience that’s not there. Talk about the audience that is there. I have seen musicians say, well, everybody left! Well that’s not true. You have four people watching you. The correct thing to say in that situation is, you all are super awesome, thank you for sticking around! Now you probably wouldn’t want to use that lingo on a live stream, but that’s the mindset to have. Be grateful for the viewers you do have. The followers you do have. Don’t focus too much on what you don’t have. Or you won’t have anything.
Stumbled across you about a month ago and I've been using your tips like crazy! Just want to thank you for everything you do :)
Zuki13k any improvement? I’m about to start and hopefully I’ll increase my audience
@@ImGerry For Twitch the main things I have done are:
1. Stay true to your schedule. Show up at the same time every week. Think of your stream as a tv show for your viewers.
2.Have topics/questions ready for when there's quieter moments (aka this video lmao). I follow a bunch of gaming twitter accounts, so I spend my mornings looking through tweets that could be good talking points for fellow gamers.
3. Stream with friends. This is something that I have done and it makes the experience a lot easier and fun. I play games with my buddies, they are apart of the whole streaming process, and they help get rid of silence when I don't have anything to say.
4. Play games with viewers. Some people go to twitch to find others to play with, and will go to channels with lower view counts cause they know they'll get a chance to play with someone. I have been playing Super Smash Bros. on stream with viewers and almost always see new faces.
Not all of these tips will work for everyone, and the last tip isn't super scalable (cant play with every viewer u get) BUT it's whats been working for me thus far. Good luck on your journey!
Zuki13k cheers dude. I’ve done some of them and kind of working for a while. I’m almost hitting 4K followers on twitch I think my main problem it keeps them watching. Usually, I start the stream with 15 to 20 people but after 30/40min it drops to 5. That’s so sad and makes me feel so shit. I’ll try to focus on RUclips now and also have some topics that I think it’s relevant to my audience to try make my content more engaged. Thanks for the tips and good luck aswell.
Same here but for less time. So much learning 🙂
The amount of content you push out is INSANE! Not just that, but it's valuable! I respect your hustle and appreciate your advice for my baby Twitch channel.
Speak to everyone as if they're a long-time friend, and always ask about their day, find good topics to make for. The more people you talk directly to, the more others feel welcome and know they will have fun.
preach
As creators our ability to chat (even if there are low views) is a skill more important than gaming.
I'm so grateful for this advice. Most advisors on how to stream just tell us to "Talk about whatever's on your mind" and whatever's on our mind tends to be whatever's happening in the game. I'm a new RUclips streamer, so I tend to bring a monologue topic anyway since I've got to fill an hour or two of stream by myself. I've been worried that doing this would hurt my interactivity, afraid once users discover me they won't chat so as not to interrupt, but until I can ask them to share their point of view, I think bringing thought-provoking topics is my value proposition. This video is so encouraging that I've got it mostly right: if anything, I may need to work on more implicit invitations to chat (like starting with a question), and understanding the audience I'm aiming for. (I'm eying your video on finding my audience in my "Suggested"s right now for my next watch.)
I have a similar story to others here. I stumbled across your channel looking for unrelated data and found a wealth of knowledge from your great struggle and experience, thank you for this content you put up, it's been a good learning experience in many other aspects of marketing your brand.
I always knew about Monologining but I could never really think about what to talk about. I really love the sticker note idea.
Always good to have a refresher on this kind of topic. Being able to monologue is incredibly important when the chat gets silent, but it's also important to give them a very open/obvious queue to jump in too.
Thanks for this video Ashni!
I completely agree Ashni. It’s also good to recognize that conversation needs base knowledge and/or research on a topic and that thought work is really “work”. It takes honest “work” to improve in any field. Do you agree that many streamers don’t put in enough of this “work”? Thanks for the video!
Your latest videos are golden nuggets of wisdom! I can't say thank you enough! I am so inspired to create content and I feel like I now have practical steps to draw in the audience I want
This is absolute gold! I know you mentioned in the past having a question for chat, but I never understood how to implement that. These examples are extremely helpful and I'm definitely going to start trying them. Thanks so much, Ashni!
PS I'd watch you stream DBD lol
This has helped me TREMENDOUSLY in terms of figuring out what I'm doing wrong when chatting! Now I have so many different ideas to help make chat a much more fun and interesting place. Thank you!
Awesome tip for keeping the convo going. I started to try that with notes, but using a digital sticky that’s more visible is a good call.
It's not awkward.
It's terrifying cause of trolls in JC! :v
But you're right. I'm slowly getting to be better in talking, currently slowly getting into part 2: ascending the game.
The funniest part is, I can talk for ages, to myself, HECK, a story: When I was in Spain on student exchange, obviously wasn't streaming but had disgusting amount of time to do whatever, so we would sit and play games with friends that I went with. At some point they pointed out "hey are you streaming or making vids or something? You're talking like crazy when playing games" - they didn't know I actually did stream before. And so I became The Narrator of our sessions.
But, when I sit and actually stream, I suddenly have tons of blocks, like the awereness of being live for X potential viewers was a switch that would stop me D:
But, we gotta push past that! :D
Also, amazing depiction of the average streamer :v
Thanks Ashni, the sticky note suggestion is a really good idea! While I've improved on monologuing, coming up with things to talk about is always tough. This will help for sure
Your videos are informative and you sing about things like me! I have a full time job but have always wanted to create a gaming community via Twitch/RUclips, so I am trying to get ahead of the struggle plateau by learning everything while I'm still a hatchling streamer :)
Something I will for sure try. Sometimes chat seems shy or are just lurking.
You’re basically describing exactly what I did on my Instagram live stream last week when I was driving! But somebody popped in and heard me talking and they asked if I was drunk LOL. At the time I assumed this was because they could see me just pretty much talking to myself and driving LOL but maybe it was a different reason or something. Like I can definitely monologue. Especially with something I already know I have an opinion on. Just ask everybody, what did you think about that latest animal crossing update? And then see what they say. Maybe they say things that I agree with or don’t agree with. Or if they say nothing, then I can get my own opinion
Thank you for this.
You've done similar videos in the past , but I feel like you singled me out for this one.
As a DBD streamer ( I'm really trying for variety but DBD is main game ) I sometimes don't always have chat chatting and monologue is something I seem to suck at.
This video is helpful. Thank you
I’ve been doing this recently on my stream, just monologue-ing and asking open ended questions for chat when doing a boss battle so they can respond and I can kinda focus/reply on a loading screen.
the one that got the most attention in chat was “what do you think happens in the afterlife” which sparked a whole lot of ideas and beliefs. I gave my thought at first which seemed a bit bizarre to say but got a lot of responses and people hung around.
This is legit exactly what I’m starting to look at. When my chat is popping it’s fine. But yeah the nights where I only have lurkers (hey I love my lurkers too) I feel the struggle. So I’ve been brainstorming on this very topic. So this video is super timely.
Lol. Soooo. Just doing the digital sticky note on my obs screen improved my ability to monologue tremendously. I streamed for 3.5 hours and had scant dead air. Sometimes chat was popping sometimes it wasn’t. Converted a couple lurks into follows. Night and day difference.
wow, you are really good at instrospection, sometimes i do what the mayority of stremaers do without realizing, thanks
Omg, ur channel and AG is most useful channels about streaming. And u give so good advise which can be use in practice
Ashni, you are in the zone these days! Been subbed for over a year. Keep it up.
You literally give the best advice 😭 probably the most deserving person I’m subscribed to! 👏🏽👍🏽
Yeah on Instagram live, the other night, I had multiple people stop by and tell me that they are just stopping by to say hi. Then they leave. I say hello and everything, but what good does that do me ha ha? I actually did a survey afterwards to get some feedback from people on why they didn’t want to stay.
Most responses I got were. They are not interested in that game, they are busy and they just wanted to say hi, or it was too late and they were going to bed.
The fermi paradox and the great filter are actually not just my fav things to talk about but my fav things to study about. I am a space nerd and the fermi paradox is both interesting and scary. I love talking about it on stream. And ahni. I recommend checking out a channel called Lemmino. Great source of amazing information that DEEP DEEP DEEP dives into the mysteries that surround many things.
Just Subbed. Thank you so much ur the twitch streamer who does indepth youtube videos to really help people on how to improve ur channel. By talking through the process.
I feel like this is something im not too bad at, but definitely picked up a bunch of good info. I definitely need to plan stuff to talk about more! Great Video as always!
definitely didnt watch this when i was supposed to be working.... Love the video!! im guilty of concentrating on the game too much too!
Wow thanks so much, this crystallized a lot of things I'd been wondering about!
I absolutely adore your personality and I can’t wait to be apart of you’re livestream.
Love your videos ! Keeping us grinders motivated ! Thank you ashni :)
Thank you so much Ash because of you i got to 100 followers
I typically start my streams by chatting with people. I share what's been going on with me and my family since the last stream, talk about how everyone has been, and watch videos they've linked over in my discord. I don't start in the Just Chatting category though; typically I start in the category of the game I'm going to be playing. Should I start in Just Chatting or should I keep doing it as I have been?
I've got 14 followers (HAD 16 but ,....you know shit happens, lol) and It's important to tell them that you appreciate and love them all (at least that's what I do) and she's right talk to chat like you're talking to yourself while playing the game... You know "oh man that's BS!" or this game is really good it's easily one of my favs!"
Awesome Engagement techniques!
Brilliant as always!
I have been trying different games like "AO tennis 2" just getting tired of first person shooter games.
This topic is right on time, I've been working on this myself the past couple of weeks and these are some great tips!
Had the same issue when I was streaming yesterday. Dead chat after playing ACNH for hours after Cuphead. It was getting boring tbh, and had to end abruptly due to OBS problems.
This was super helpful! Thank you!!
Great tips. I never thought about noting down a few topics to talk about.
I talk about what I'm doing in the game all the time. I do that even if I'm not streaming, I've always been a person that was very use to talking to themselves. when I was a kid, I loved playing with my toys by myself, so talking to myself was always something I've been very good at. But even talking to yourself has limits, you run out of things to say.
So I started streaming again recently and I really love talking about the game I'm playing, so I always say what the plan is, where I plan to go next in the game and so on. So I started with "Might & Magic VI: the mandate of Heaven" anyone know that game? it's very old. a RPG game from 1998 made by New world Computing, a company that no longer exists. I know you heard about Heroes of Might & magic, becayse that's so popular. Well this game is set in the same universe as that one. So yeah, I talk about the game all the time when I play and I ask questions. But still, sometimes you do run out of things to say, even when you talk to yourself.
This is so helpful. I could really tell the difference. As a new streamer I will definitely be using these tips. Thank you :-)
Love the video! Love all the TIPS!
Thank you so much for the tips! Thank you for making a video explaining this!
kurzgesagt is on of my favorite science Channel on RUclips since I like science also that is also partly why I got into youtube and especially twitch so I could not necessarily teach science but to share sciencetific ideas with others the only thing that is holding me back is the lack of a consistent audience to talk to plus in the future i want to do more of my own science content I just need the audience to support that
It's SUCH an amazing channel!! PS Don't let lack of audience hold you back. Doing it is how you get the audience
These tips were on point!!! Thank you!
Loved the vid keep up the good work
sometimes I feel like I got snapped into the shadow realm with how hard it is to make it, both on youtube( maybe doing reactions is not the best idea) and on twitch its like I exist but don't at this same time, but anyways... the baking will continue. good video tho
I'm a Podcaster and I realize that if I just talk like always while playing video games I become be a StreamCaster? By the way I already did this with FaceRig and was very fun thanks to Ashnicrist advices, I'll follow you until the very end, that is of course if COV&D doesn't end me first!! XD :O :(
can you do a video on physically disabled streamers....bring light to all disabilities, there are a few physically disabled streamers that i know
I appreciate your content.
My chat is as silent as I am around girls.
85 comments (well 86 now) and only 342 likes? Thanks for the good tips.
You almost sound like that girl from Schitt’s Creek
Will you do a video on haters, like not just one off haters but ones that legit go out of their way to hate me and my content almost to the point that they are a fan like they dislike every video talk mad crap ect
Sometimes the same hater is begging me for in game items also it can be annoying
i took the hearts that u left me as inspiration and i made a diss track on the hater :)
thanks so much ashni u the best
i love your videos.... a huge help im trying my chances at becoming a content creator.... video games and the community have helped me through some shitty things in my life...... do u do one on one's with people??? i would by chance love to pick your brain sometime....
Super useful video as always!
Also, Dead By Daylight is just a dead game, let's be honest, they just ban everyone eventually, even without reason, not a bad game, just bad systems behind it.
Would it be appropriate to talk about sports on stream? I’m an avid sports nut but idk If that would resonate with people? Anyways, thanks for the great video!
Absolutely!! Talk about it forever and eventually you'll find the people who love that thing too. That's how you find your community
ashnichrist Thank you! I appreciate the reply!
True
Good job.
*Note taking intensifies*
YESSSSS
I'll play w ya! I've been in since beta ill carry ya senpai
Can anyone help me out?
Let’s play DBD together!
very good video! i try to work on that one being better to keep my chat alive so far i have streamed since 2017 my account on twitch are way older hehe its from back in the day it called justin.tv
Thanks I just hit 9k followers I’m always looking for ways to improve this helped a lot def gna revisit dbd and replicate to see if it makes a difference lol science purposes
here before 100views
NICE :D
These tips are useless. You are turning entertainment into science. If you are a boring dweeb, you will never be a successful entertainer.
to be honest? your 2nd example soundes fake and the constant talking just got on my nerves, i rather watch a generic Streamer than someone where i feel like they read a book.