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As a small streamer myself, I honestly agree with everything your saying. I have 70 followers currently on twitch and anytime I stream I usually have maybe 1-3 viewers if I'm lucky and sometimes I may peak to maybe 5, but I quickly go back down to 1. Ngl having the low viewership is discouraging for me, but I don't wanna let that stop me from doing something that enjoy which playing video games and showing off my skills. So definitely take everything you say into consideration. I've actually been thinking about trying to use youtube as a way to help with my growth, but I'm just not good with editing, but I definitely wanna try. Thank you for your wisdom and great advice.
Hey, I sit around 100 - 150 average right now, and feel discouraged so I feel you hahaha This video is aimed at myself as well honestly, it is hard work forever! But it is fun work as well when we find our focus.
Ngl I did most of this without even being told to and it works. Went from 0 to 7-8 average viewers in only a week, still growing. You HAVE TO be able to talk to yourself. You HAVE TO
It definitely wasn't harsh, these are comments people do need to hear. I've had to take a break from streaming due to work and life. However I'm planning to return in June and I am already planning stuff out, so I can be more discoverable. I tried growing as a variety streamer and it didn't work and I've learned that the hard way. Because all I was burn my self out.
Really happy to hear it wasn't harsh, I just really don't want to be "that guy that sells snake oil and yells, "You can do it!" " Good luck on the return! Glad to hear you're working hard! :) #earlygang
Eljay, I've been meaning to tell you this for a good while now... Thank you. Thank you for the mountain of incredible information you've provided for myself and everyone looking to dive into streaming. Just two months ago I began my streaming journey with nothing more than a wild idea that maybe I could someday have a community of my own. With your help I've been able to grow at an insane pace and I already have a humble community that I love to interact with. When I started I didn't even know what OBS was, but with your help I was able to grow smart and dive in with a splash. So thank you for being such a great mentor for all of us.
Much appreciated! I've had ideas to be more interesting for a while, but was consistently getting stuck in the mindset of "It won't be worth it, I'll just mess it up" but you've put forward a great point! So what's the harm in trying!
I have been watching a lot of your vids recently, even using one of your amazing overlays, thanks again. Yet the videos also told me I needed to do something but being a bit harder for me being mute. I started to use a TTS (Text to speech) program and really hope that might help to get in touch with my chat :3
Another awesome video. Thanks, Eljay! I just started 2 months ago and been steadily growing thanks to your tips. I've noticed a recurring tip/theme to your videos and it's *consistency*. It's kind of disheartening to not see views grow or followers but I'm going to keep trying to make good content and try to do better the next time.
Hey thanks for the kind comment! I think consistency and improving yourself are the two major keys to success at anything! Streaming just will always have other difficult factors to it that make it hard to do both of those things. And hey, #earlygang :)
I'm a small streamer myself. Even if this advice just seemed like common sense I completely didn't realize how entertaining my streams actually have to be. I sat down after what you said and tried breaking down what makes my content good or entertaining to a live viewer. All I came up with was.. I'm wholesome sometimes, engage with chat, and wait for something random to happen in hopes of it being funny or something to talk about. All my yt shorts and tiktok videos are all based off of those random moments. Relying on something random comes back as random in consistency.. You cannot predict random and cannot completely rely on random events. Not only do I rely on random.. I also pretty much only play Valorant or Overwatch which both games are full of streamers already. Its very very competitive and hard to find ppl on through categories and even if you look through the least viewed streams.. There are just so many the chances of finding me are very very slim.. I've branched out to yt shorts and tiktok, but still very hard to grow if I can't find the content people want to watch and are willing to use their time watching longer then 5 minutes. I will get better through everything I learn and everything I work on changing to become more entertaining. But now I see why I'm not as successful as my piers. Thank you, Stream Scheme
If you want to grow then you might have to do less of what you want and more of what the viewers want. This might mean taking a break from your regular games and playing some cult classics (think Hollow Knight, Cuphead, horror games). If these aren't your jam I'd recommend trying SOMETHING new rather than waiting for a funny moment that may never come. Shouldn't rely too heavily on luck to succeed BUT one can increase their luck using proper tactics. Always be trying something new, adding something new and keeping things fresh. If you're on camera try wearing something different, or that'll capture the eye. Keep going!
I've been really losing the drive to create content and keep a regular schedule on my stream. Hearing the things you had to say here was kind of the swift kick I needed to get my head straight and dive back into it. Keep doing what you're doing! It's honestly helping so many get the most out of their time striving to become discovered! Thank you.
Great stuff as always! Love the idea of using your title as a summary for the stream, but also a self-pitch to see if your stream idea is good to you. Cause if you wouldn't click your own stream, why would you expect someone else to?
I actually really appreciate this. We all need that wake up call. I’m just starting out, have a couple RUclips videos and streamed a couple times. I still have to learn the in’s and out’s of everything, but every little bit of information is incredibly helpful. I actually just streamed earlier today and I’m gonna cut it down to bits and post it everywhere. Gotta start somewhere, right?
Well said! I streamed one of my videos, with the mindset that I would later take it and make a video out of it. It was a 15 hour stream in total, and I averaged 1 viewer (which was my friend). I took that video, edited it down to a digestible 10 minute video and now it sits at around 400k viewers. I don't even stream on twitch anymore, I switched to RUclips pretty quickly lol.
Great video! What attracts me to a streamer: Family-friendly content, relaxing environment and/or gameplay (one guy I follow makes donuts in his bakery at night!), and the streamer's willingness to engage with their viewers. That's what I put into my own because that's what keeps me coming back to theirs.
I know everyone has there own style that comes naturally to them, but what I found worked for me when I was very small was I spent a decent amount of time not streaming, but on twitch in other small community streamer channels that I loved. The relationships with them and communities grew from there. Don't underestimate the power of other smol beans like you ☺️
Thanks bro! I wanna thank you a lot for your free Overlays on your Discord. I havent really been happy with all the Overlays I found online, but I LOVED your Old School Cool Overlay. Also thanks a lot for all the content you are putting up. Appreciating uo. You helped me a lot with my stream.
Great advice! I am at the beginning of changing my mindset to treat my streams like recording sessions for videos and shorts, and also to plan some challenge/event based streams that can translate to RUclips well! e.g. If I can't do X then I have to do Y. Keep the videos coming in the mean time!
Wasn't entirely sure about how this would pan out, but honestly you made a lot of excellent points and I absolutely plan on taking these ideas with me into my creations in the following months. Thanks so much for the tips dude, keep up the awesome work!~✨💕🌸
These videos are pretty great! Been binging a lot of them lately Gave me more of a push to consider actually schedule my streams and see what works .and try something new and have goals to work towards, I've got the resources and such, now i just got to use them. Thanks man, I'd love to see you in my stream one day! :)
Been streaming for over a year. Creating content on TikTok / RUclips since I started. I say all this to say that this video is 100% facts. You explained this better than anyone has. More people need to hear the truth behind streaming and content creation. Well done!
100% agree with everything you've said here (and in a crap load of other vids of yours I've recently watched). That said, I'm only streaming and making (minimal) content for fun, not to make money or become popular. I have a fulltime job as an IT contractor that pays extremely well and streaming etc is really just a nice way for me to relax (and waste a lot of money on gear I don't really need lol). I enjoy casual gaming and I honestly don't care if I have 1 or 1000 viewers. If someone finds me interesting or sees something in one of my streams/vids that helps them in a particular game, that's great. If they don't, then so be it.
"it's better to try and fail" This is my thoughts exactly. Idk why but I feel like there's less "regret" (maybe there's a better word) when you've at least tried. If you don't even try, you'll never know if you could've succeeded...and that just feels so much worse, and I speak from experience of never having the guts to ask my parents for acting or singing lessons when I was younger and - to this day, I still wonder how it would've gone if I had actually asked for them. It's why I just freaking went for it when I decided that I wanted to start streaming the games I play...and they were surprisingly encouraging.
PeachySaiyann & NubbinsInc - I love the chaos in Peachy's streams, the sound alerts, the randomness and overall fun. I love Nubbins' values, humor and professionalism. They also both play games I have interest in, so I do enjoy the gameplay, but I'm really there for personality!
Every time you say you're being harsh, I'm seeing you A. Showing us the tools to help us and B. Telling us how to fix things. What I consider to be harsh is saying "Well you just kinda suck" and leaving it at that. I love how constructive your criticism is and absolutely appreciate that you're taking the time to help us grow! Thanks so much for giving us tools to succeed! It's almost 5 in the morning for me right now, but tomorrow I plan to take a look at those tools for editing that you provided and learning how to use them! I've been wanting to learn how to do that so bad! You're absolutely amazing!
Appreciate these videos. I guess the hard part is starting. Like you said, someone just sitting in their room playing games isn't hard, it's the effort in trying to be different and entertaining for viewers to be worth watching. However, for a lot of us small streamers it's hard because that's all we have access too, it's a part of the growth so I guess that's where it's hard because you want to be entertaining but don't access to the tools to help and if no one cares to watch how will you ever hope to grow if the service isn't sustaining itself. Understand what I'm saying? It's a hard balance in the very beginning and why a lot of small channels fail cause it's not sustaining for them to grow its why viewers and engaging your community is important to any channel. Guess the key is consistency, you'll get demotivated, you'll want to give up but just hang in there one day you can put more resources into growing the brand and expanding the content.
Thanks a lot for this! I really appreciate the hard work and effort. I have 3 questions: 1) I know you mentioned I got to be entertaining even at 0 viewers, but How do you vocally do this without anyone? You tell stories and stories hoping one person pops in and laugh? or do you just say what's happening in the game. 2) I have some ideas for content and challenges that MIGHT not be what people are looking for. Should I still aim try to make it? I think it's interesting, I just don't know if someone will actually search for that challenge. 3) Is the niching down on one single game actually worth it if I got other ideas for other games? For example, I try BotW, which botw I'm hardly getting growth, but I have an idea for the new kirby game. My doubt is, is it bad to put out BotW content and then kirby? then go to pokemon and zelda again?
Answers! :) 1.) This entirely depends on your content, biggest recommendation, go watch a RUclipsr who records videos, go watch their videos that are recorded OUTSIDE of the Stream, see how they talk and make it engaging without a chat. 2.) Yes! Try everything! If it fails, you learn, if it succeeds you learn! 3.) Don't niche to a game! Niche to an audience demographic! Pointcrow does Nintendo, Challenges, Speedruns these are topics that share an audience demographic. AmbigiuousAmphibian does Survival, Challenges, strategy. These all share an audience. #earlygang
@@StreamScheme Incredibly grateful for this reply! thanks a lot man. Grateful to have your content to help others. I really appreciate your time to reply to this. Huge thanks! This video and your reply inspired me even more! Have a wonderful day eljay and everyone!
What I can say with a small stream channel on twitch myself on what helped me is this. I’ll start with I have 79 followers averaging around right now 5-10 peaking around 15 viewers which is good for a small streamer. What I did to help grow was simply start sharing my twitch links when I stream in discord servers I’m in as friends, or random people who roam the server will join and and usually support you. I also made a tik tok for my twitch where I would make quick 30 second edited clips from my stream and post it for people to watch and help gain more publicity. Also keep streaming as being a small streamer you just need to keep consistency and don’t be discouraged as everyone starts somewhere. Note: also figure out what you enjoy playing and what genre attracts the most people. For me I like playing action so Apex and Val when I play is about 5-8 viewers. But horror is something I sorta enjoy and my viewers like watching me get scared so I get 10-15. Hope this helps
I always appreciate your videos and advice Eljay. Back when I started streaming, it was clearly to make a job out of playing games, and to a degree yeah its still something id like to do. But Last year I started making YT content(COD Warzone since it was what I was playing), and it wasnt until the 3rd video that I started finding the flow I wanted and realized how to make my content different from others, and you know what that was: Editing. Something I had done very little of before, but now im quite confident, and I realize I actually enjoy it as much, if not more than streaming. I like more longform videos so that makes it difficult to edit shorts / tiktoks in between, but ive made the odd ones here and there, but mainly I keep pushing myself to learn more editing techniques, to improve each video in one way or another, heck the one im working on next is the most intricate ive done to date because of stuff ive learned. So in the end, I found another passion I never knew I had, and while I love streaming (And yes im actually putting your advice to work) I cant help but love editing YT videos more, especially so I can put stupid little jokes in that make me laugh.
I just want to say thank you for taking time out of your daily life to upload a video like this to help us Small Time streamers out and I promise you you're not going to hear no complaining for me I really appreciate the advice that you're giving and I like that you are speaking the truth even if it is a little harsh and people do need to hear that at times and I'm going to take what you have suggested and incorporate that into my streams so I just wanted to say thank you and I'm the type of person that always pushes to do better and take criticism even if it is a little harsh because again you got to hear that so thank you and I hope you're having a great day
6:06 Did anyone else hear Richard Ayoade's voice here for a second? Jajaja In all seriousness though, thank you for these videos! I just followed your stream the other day and I love your community! I've seen a bunch of your videos already, and I love them. Thanks again for making them!
This is awesome. Thanks so much for reminding me to get back on the wagon and make my streams better like they were when I first started. Much love bro
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I started streaming in 2015 or so. For 5 years my channel didn't grow much, about 125 followers. But when around 2020 I got the idea to talk a bit about my twitch on RUclips (where I was starting to get a little bit of people, around 10K) and it was a winner: I know I have a very good reading level so I started doing morning reads of LOTR and games that were "Lord of the Rings" themed with the hype that was building around the Amazon series, I quickly grew and as I write, I'm approaching 700 followers on Twitch! Your advices are pure gold! I might just add: make a clear and precise program that you stick to and share it on your socials ;)
Eljay! I just wanted to say, I did my very first stream last night, and it went amazing! I gained my first 15 followers, averaged 7 viewers, and even got my first raid! I took a lot of your advice to heart, and people were even saying it was one of the least scuffed first streams they've seen! (Uh, I did totally manage to forget to increase the font size for the chat box 1🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️) but other than that, your videos and tips have really helped me so far, so thank you so muxh for your wonderful tips, tutorials, etc!
I tend to often agree with you, so I'd say good job with your videos. You're right, most of people just make excuses. It's true that some content needs viewers (like pointcrow's video) to do anything at all but just start with something else interesting that doesn't need them. Once you get enough viewers, playing with them is an awesome idea!
I'm a "small" german streamer and i like your vids as i learned a lot of them. A lot of the infos i've wrote down in Word, started sorting them and read them again and again to get them into my brain. Thanks for this and I look forward to the next videos!
What would you recommend? RUclips shorts or tiktok ? I've been streaming for abit and nearing 3k followers but have been stuck at 20 - 30 average and want to level up Rn I'm working on getting a nice vtuber model done but I don't really do much outside of twitch anymore
I discovered you a week ago and honestly have been watching a lot of your videos, and all I have to say is it's inspiring me to keep on the grind. Keep up the great content!
Agreed. This is a burner but I grew so much when posting on other platforms but personal life got in the way and after that I grew lazy. I genuinely enjoy making content and aim to get back on it!!! I enjoy every person that comes in my streams just to say hi or stop by!! It means alot!! Thanks for the video!!
I am still a small streamer and have a small community, but I changed my niche to Retro because I can talk about it and actually enjoy it. I am so over AAA games. Anyway, I was wondering what was wrong, and why I lose ppl other than over time ppl come and go. Thanks, man! I will try and put these tips into practice. Good vibes.
Another great video, i fell like the idea of an video is way more important than the editing and quality. Also thanks Eljay, mostly cause of you i reached over 500 subs on YT with the stream starting to pick up :D
Idea and concept destroy everything else, I have 2 videos coming up on the channel PURELY about just that pretty much! And your growth is your own hard work :) #earlygang
Eljay I just want thank you for the awesome advice! I've been afraid to even touch tiktok, but my little community has been clipping some funny horror moments so I'll start with those. I'm having so much fun streaming and can already see improvement from weeks ago by following your advice, and just being myself!
I don't really have any streamers I look up to at the moment other than my friend who just got his first sponsor. Listening to your video made me think on how to use the fact that I'm often the lore nerd for anything I'm into and how I can incorporate that into my streams. I'm playing through Dragon Age atm which is one I know a lot about so I'm mostly explaining in world stuff and what things are going to change between the first and the rest. I also plan to explain the novels and comics when they occur chronologically. Your video has made me feel a bit more confident in embracing my lore nerdy self and let it out more in stream.
Ok wow, loved this video. I am trying to do a push to grow this year and I have been trying to think of ways to do so. Needed that little extra "You can do it". I have even downloaded software to learn editing but I might try TikTok as well! Thanks for all your help king!
Started a month ago, I'm now affiliated, I'm so happy and excited for the future!! I have used many of your tips, spent hours planning and tweaking, just need to start posting more content to other platforms to really get going! (All from my xbox btw). I used to make excuses about why I can't stream, but lately I have been so passionate to hit the live button and start!! Thank you so much for the help!!!
Making reason why I stream is cause it helps my depression alot, and one thing I need to do is stop thinking nobody will watch me and start to realize just stream and enjoy yourself I stream about 2-12 hrs depends on how I feel but mostly just do 2-3 hrs fasho
Great video, as always, Eljay! How do you deal with second-guessing yourself? Let me explain. I struggle with seeing cool video/stream ideas, saying "this could make for a great vid," but stopping myself from doing it just because other streamers have already done it. Am I in the right by stopping myself from doing content others have already done, or should I push through and make it my own?
If I find a way to forever not second guess myself, trust me that video will be uploaded instantly hahaha My rule of thumb these days, just to try say f*ck it, and do what makes me happy. I made amazon buy streams because it seemed fun, Ludwig already did it, but hey my chat loved it! Do your best to push through to what you enjoy!
@Stream Scheme Thanks for the reply! I will give that approach a try! My inspiration is always greater than my available time, but I work with what I've got. Thanks for putting these guides out. They help so much!
This advice feels very familiar to the advice I give folks who wanna do art and look at my stuff like "Dang you draw really well, I'll never draw that good." Like, I didn't get my skills overnight. You just gotta keep making interesting art content and keep trying to give it your best quality. It takes time to get really good at these things. So A+ on this video's advice. It's all about putting in the effort and sticking to it.
Thank you Eljay, awesome as always, I have recently started creating more RUclips content (game reviews and stream comedy completions etc) and already I am noticing some new people coming to twitch, your videos always help give me a little boost and realise this is what I want to do! :) I don't think these words were harsh they are wise! :D
Bro, you have just made one of the best videos for Twitch streamers I have ever seen! Honestly, the main message here, stream to create content and publish your content, goes a long way! Thank you for the inspiration! I look forward to my growth on Twitch and will be following this advice to the letter!
Thanks for the video mate! I always make the excuse that I don't have time to make RUclips videos while working full-time as well as streaming but I've been stuck in that mindset that it needs to be HYPER polished before it goes out good to see that if the content is engaging enough it can still do well!
Hi Eljay! I recently found your content and have been watching a lot of your videos for advice as I'm going to start streaming soon, and I've been finding it very helpful. However, there is one thing I haven't been able to find any advice on, not just from you but from anyone. I've been able to find videos and advice on what you should do BEFORE you start streaming, but not what you should do ON your first stream. I've never seen anyone's first stream before (except for VTubers but they have a very specific way of doing a first stream that I don't think applies to the normal streamer population) but I think it would feel awkward to introduce myself briefly and immediately jump right into content. If you (or anyone else reading this comment) have any advice, I would appreciate it!
I did actually cover this, super early on the channel and recently as well. I honestly think if you watched my 32 tips video (second most viewed) and my How to Grow to 25 average viewers video, you'll be pretty much covered :) #earlygang
I’ve been wanting to go from a guide RUclipsr to an actual entertaining RUclipsr and streamer for a long time. Knowing Smallant and those like him, they really set me on the right path to what I want to make. Even though my game (Genshin Impact) has an extremely defined meta when it comes to content. I’d really like to make all my content actually interesting to watch by doing these challenges instead of having reaction and playthroughs alone.
Thank you so much for making this video after watching I realized that I really was making low quality content and all of these tips make a lot of sense! I also thank you for not trying to sugar coat it because I do often find my self trying to rationalize why I am not doing some of the things you mentioned! Your videos are a huge help!
Very good video! I don't think any of what you said is necessarily wrong, but I'm not sure how it's useful or applicable to me. I'm a small channel and I have had limited success gaining follows by sharing a link in games. My most recent stream on RUclips was a 5 hr long Overwatch 2 Support placements video. I didn't really have viewers and if I did it was for short moments but I was giving commentary. I get really anxious if I focus too hard on the commentary and get a form of writers block, so for me I try to focus on the game and let the commentary come on it's own. I have recently started making myself only read comments in-between games and at the end of the stream and that is helping me organize myself as well. I appreciate any tips or advice I can get but I understand ultimately it will come down to me and the work I am willing to put into it. I am trying to figure out social networking and better ways to advertise streams as advertising in game usually gains me about 1-2 subscribers per stream.
12:18 These Pointcrow and Smallant examples are so good. Especially since I watch both of them. In fact, Pointcrow is who brought me over to Twitch in the first place, and it was one of his older BotW challenge videos that did it. He has grown a lot since I first followed him a couple years ago.
Hi mate, I'm almost 40, didn't have a clue about streaming and now i'm slowly getting better and better. A lot of that is thanks to you and your videos, you're doing gods work sir, if god concentrated on streaming video games. Just wanted to say thanks
As a small streamer I tend to spend a lot of time planning what are we going to do on stream and try to balance my passion of art and gaming, sometimes even making fanarts of the games we play. I used to edit the footages to upload them on RUclips but I got a bit discouraged after feeling like nobody was watching either the speedpaints, the vods or the compilations, as if neither of these work. I want to get a written schedule so people will know better what to expect from me and when, as discoverability is also very difficult for me. Thank you for the inspiring video Eljay, keep being awesome! ♥ ps: I wanted to ask you to review my Twitch for critique, but I don't feel confident doing that yet, maybe when I'll be a little bit more sure of myself :,>
Thanks for all your awesome videos bro! I'm loving making content and streaming with friends/viewers. I'm super small but admittedly it's fun and now just has become part of my normal life.
I have literally been binging your content for the past few days even before my first stream on last friday and all your tips have had such high value. I'm still a bit unsure about a lot of things, like people telling you all the time "Don't be a variety streamer, focus on one game only" and I wonder if I can still play two games, I wonder if my game I chose is too oversatured with 12-22k viewers (Genshin Impact) and so on and on. And while I still have all those worries, there's a bunch of stuff I still learned from the binge. I made sure that my titles are engaging, I've thought about a couple play of words and jokes from the game as titles for the next streams, things that make people click on me out of all these. According to friends who've been into streaming a while the numbers for my two streams are pretty well, but to grow a community is the hard way. And the most important thing I learned, from anyone stopping by who may see my comment: turn of the view count. During my first stream I was pretty hyped and I didn't see the view count, cause I didn't see my own stream and forgot to open the twitch app on my phone. When I saw I had 8 viewers I was hyped. Yea, 3 of them were my friends but there were still 5 strangers watchng my stuff that's awesome! Midway through the stream it dropped down to 3, once we even had only 2 which were literally two of my 3 friends mentioned earlier. I got so upset and I tried to mask, but ofc it was discouraging. The same happened on my other stream yesterday. First I was upset that the max I "only" got were 5 people and the other half of the stream were 3-4 with a very quiet chat in comparison to friday, so I got super selfconcious. I had improved my audio, my layout, everything - why were there less people? Ever since then I told myself to not look at it, because I feel like the moment I had figured out how to see your view count, I was doomed. I was happy, excited, streaming like this is what I do every day until I saw this 2. Don't look! It doesn't matter. :)
All really good points! Coming up with content ideas can sometimes be daunting, but you can do it! It's something I am struggling with atm, but I keep trying!
Honestly thank you sooo much, I came to watch your explanation vids so I could boost myself and my stream and its actually working so much appreciated man high respect for you because i knew nothing about what I was doing at the start and now I may not know too much but I am starting to get more control over my content and i’m beginning to grow more and more and its all honestly thx to you ❤
13:43 is this a "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon"-reference? ;) joking aside, do you think, if you're streaming on youtube, then uploading a relevant short for the stream's content would be good to boost the livestream numbers, when the stream starts shortly after the upload? for example, in csgo showing a specific smoke with a tiny frag montage using that smoke, then showing the effect of the smoke in the stream playing only the map for that day.
Thanks Eljay. I needed this today. I need a quality boost myself. So my channel isn't live till then. I could go audio-only till I get a better camera and overlays.
Just found you on my recommendations. Second video I’ve watched and so far VERY helpful. My problem with the webcam part, I don’t want to show my face. I want to keep that part of my identity anonymous. TheDooo does it and he’s one of my favorite RUclipsrs
I've honestly been looking for a way to make my streams more engaging as a small streamer (aside from acknowledging chat which I try to did every time. Did just watch your vid on getting more chatters btw, very helpful :3) and your "chat can turn off my controller* idea is quite inspiring, as were the examples you shared from other streamers at 11:10 . I tried putting a challenging twist on a game recently and, while I feel it did slightly better than my other content, I have a few ideas now for getting chat involved and for just spicing up my content in general.
Watching your channel it has helped me grow over the past year and a half, albeit slow steady growth, but everything you say has helped me go from 3 average to 30+ avg now. There is a bump in the road for every milestone. But keep pushing and innovating in your own way helps.
This is really helpful! I'm a new streamer myself, believe it or not, and am constantly trying to think of ways to make people actually want to engage with chat and myself, ways to entertain viewers, etc. It's a grind but things are starting to pick up!
I've been honestly trying my best to make stuff like shorts, but it's always so tiring to go through entire streams to find the cool moments, just because I have such a bad memory. As well asmy love-hate relationship with streaming, that definitely doesn't make the shorts strategy easy. I do always try to interact with chat, even if there's like 1 person watching, because if it's one person you still have to appreciate they're there with you!
What do you think about Hover? Also people who inspire me are Armnestra. I love how genuinely goofy excited she gets about stuff. Like the first time she did the egg hunt in Stardew, it was legendary to see her anticipation for the results and then her crushed by Abigail. I need to bring that level of excitement to my stream more frequently.
You'll be glad to know ive always took your advice about still treating ur stream like u have viewers even if you have 0 its perfect practice to being more natural on stream sadly i had to step away from streaming for awhile for personal reasons but the return is coming and thanks to all your helpful videos i know i can make it
Solid point . As a twitch viewer i havent actually browsed a category in about 2 years now . Alot of the time i feel fortunate for even growing at all as a twitch streamer when i think of how i am as a viewer and that many might be just like me lol Granted in the past couple years ive done alot more content on youtube than twitch but still ... the reality is browsing the categories is a pain because theres just way too many streamers and more so , small streamers . its easier to just follow those u find that u like along the way and resort to your followed list
Awesome video! I’ve been searching around for any kind of video to help give me the boost to keep on going and improve and honestly your video is the only video I could get through. I think it was very well done and all of your points are things I felt slipping on my own channel and you did an awesome job reminding me to do better! Also for somebody like me getting 30k views was insane can’t even imagine 500k
So I want to start streaming, but don't know how. I want to do a unique channel on Twitch where it's primarily horror focused reaction content and occasional gaming. I'm going to watch your videos so I can get the best tips possible. I'm gonna be honest, I'm not confident in myself as far as my ability to make interesting content, but I'm sure as hell gonna try! Thank you for uploading these tips for us!
Hey, Eljay! I found this video as a happenstance, but I at least wanted to comment as not only a great video comment, but also as some insight/advice from myself as well :P I stream as a way to hang out with friends, and other people that might stumble on my stream. I think the biggest downer is having that "need to stream" grind mindset that kills a lot of people's motivations. If you stream with the intent that you're streaming for a bunch of friends, and more importantly, that you're just having a fun time with them, people will come to you just to talk, and, well, hang out! My biggest motivators from other streams are Vinny, and Joel from Vinesauce; it's all they do. They're funny, they're lax, and I come back to them all the time, because that's who I want to be - a laid back streamer that has people come for the chill vibes. I'm not really into making streaming my career, but maybe that's why I'm not as stressed out when it comes to numbers. Start strong, and finish strong. Even though I have almost 70 followers (crazy number, honestly), I get maybe two people watching all the time. Even when the counter sits at 0, I still act like people are watching, or are going to watch the vods. Be yourself! If you want to be an entertainer, follow the video like he explains. Otherwise, just play games like you do with your friends, and by yourself. Don't be obligated to keep talking, but if you have chatters, definitely talk to them :D
I know this was uploaded literally 9 months ago, but something I've found true (reference point at about 4:35 in video), is that "mediocre" gameplay is one of the best possible scenarios for gameplay skill. The reason being that it's relatable to the audience and often, hilarious, unintended things happen as a result. Never let being "bad" at a game hold you back. People LOVE that stuff.
Right now I'm at 24 followers on twitch, my youtube is at 6 subscribers. What your saying in this video an your other videos, I am taking notes on an trying my best to apply them. It's gotten to the point where I've done a lot of research an now I'm trying to turn it all into an action that can propel forward. To that end the next stream I do I don't want to simply be playing a game, I want what I'm doing to matter to someone aside from myself. Your videos helped me really understand that.
Thank you for this advice. This video has been very helpful and i could say even a push in the right direction. You just pointed out difficult but also easy it is to start out. I personally never thought of looking at the beginning of streamers time and focused on the now. Its always been an issue of confidence but I think i wont be that worried about that now. Thank you!☺☺
first person i floowed and subbed to was Matty Braun on twitch. His charasmatic energy and all around goofiness has me coming back every time. also, he has a giant cheese he just picks up when commanded to. not to mention his entire community is such a pleasure to chat with. as a streamer myself. i do variety games and my big "Thing" is just a hangout place "the gamez room" that ppl can come into and just feel like they went to a friends house to chill and chit chat.
I don't personally stream, but my favorite streamer is Sim_Play_Loraine. She streams sims content, although right now we are all obsessed with the new Disney Dreamlight Valley game!! The thing I love about her streams, and what keeps me coming back, is the amount of chaos we are allowed to do during her streams! She eats Bean Boozles, Spicy chips, She has it where we can stop her current gameplay and she has to do solo Phasmo for a certain amount of time. She has now gotten some extremely spicy gummies and suckers (the sucker dares you to suck on it for 5 minutes!!) All these things keep me coming back to watch her!!!
Ive started streaming a few weeks ago. I binge watched almost every video you put out before I felt I was ready to start lol I’m lucky to have some following on instagram because of my car and drifting content. So I figured the perfect way to start would be a nostalgic game that not only me, but most of my followeres (3.5k) played as a child. Was lucky to have 18 average viewers on my first stream playing Need for Speed Most Wanted, and people liked it a lot!! And its so cool to see them excited for the next stream. I’m doing NFS on Wednesdays and Minecraft on fridays now, and feedback has been a lot better than I expected, getting 10-20 average viewers with only like 70 followers now. Definitely the secret to it is not the game, not how good you play the game, but how entertaining you are, how you engage with your chat and how your viewers come back for you and not for the game. Building a community is a big key. Thanks Eljay!!
I don't typically listen to the "like and comment" spiel that most content creators put out there, but this is something I'll actually do that on, the advice is solid and I want to take it to heart. I have an active streaming schedule, but you're absolutely right, I don't put forth the effort to make shorts to help advertise my stream when whacky shit happens, all I do is play the fucking game with my dry ass commentary and then reupload the stream on RUclips. I don't consider myself interesting or funny in the goddamn slightest, unfortunately. I WANT to be funny and entertaining, just a dumbass lmao. But yeah, you're right, that's probably just a mental excuse I'm using to avoid attempting to make shorts and the like. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the video.
Three major inspos right now: Mori Calliope (huge music talent and punished gamer) Selen Tastuki (nickanamed "chuckle dragon") Yuuka Bear (hilarious commentary, amazing voice skills) All different sizes, all different styles, but they're each so good at engaging their viewers in their own way. They also make a lot of cool stuff besides streaming- I myself have recently grown from 0 to nearly 500 subs on YT, and the huge majority of that has been from video essays, youtube shorts, and (most recently) tiktok stuff. Also since I started focusing on specific games, namely Omori, Animal Crossing and Genshin, it seems like more people come by and stick around to see where things go! I need to get better at asking mundane questions that get people interested in chatting without feeling put on the spot. Also... I've been taking guitar and voice coaching lessons, and wanna start adding music to my streams, but man I'm kind of nervous to start with that! I'm a baby beginner. But I'm proud of how many ways I've expanded over the past year!
These are really nice tips. I just want to have around an average of 5 to 10 people watching. streaming is so much more fun when you can talk with your chat and I would enjoy streaming so much more if i knew I wasnt just talking to myself. As long as one person is watching, then I dont feel like im wasting my time
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1:10 OWN3D Sponsor Segment
2:00 Small Streamers Don't Know What Streaming Actually Is!
3:00 How To Stand Out As A Streamer On Twitch!
4:30 How To START Making Good Content On Twitch!
5:28 Why Small Streamers NEVER Grow On Twitch!
6:20 How Viewers ACTUALLY Use Twitch!
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Love ur vids
Where is the guide ?!
The TikTok one? In the description.
@@StreamScheme thanks !
Thank you so much for this
As a small streamer myself, I honestly agree with everything your saying. I have 70 followers currently on twitch and anytime I stream I usually have maybe 1-3 viewers if I'm lucky and sometimes I may peak to maybe 5, but I quickly go back down to 1. Ngl having the low viewership is discouraging for me, but I don't wanna let that stop me from doing something that enjoy which playing video games and showing off my skills. So definitely take everything you say into consideration. I've actually been thinking about trying to use youtube as a way to help with my growth, but I'm just not good with editing, but I definitely wanna try. Thank you for your wisdom and great advice.
Hey, I sit around 100 - 150 average right now, and feel discouraged so I feel you hahaha This video is aimed at myself as well honestly, it is hard work forever! But it is fun work as well when we find our focus.
I know this feel! Make your viewers invisible and enjoy yourself!
That's the number you should expect at your size! Dont feel bad about yourself but the lack if discoverability
Hey I’m in the exact same situation as you. I have 70 followers and average 1-5 viewers as well
Exactly where i am 1-5 viewers and 40+ followes 😭💪
Ngl I did most of this without even being told to and it works. Went from 0 to 7-8 average viewers in only a week, still growing. You HAVE TO be able to talk to yourself. You HAVE TO
So true
It definitely wasn't harsh, these are comments people do need to hear.
I've had to take a break from streaming due to work and life.
However I'm planning to return in June and I am already planning stuff out, so I can be more discoverable.
I tried growing as a variety streamer and it didn't work and I've learned that the hard way. Because all I was burn my self out.
Really happy to hear it wasn't harsh, I just really don't want to be "that guy that sells snake oil and yells, "You can do it!" "
Good luck on the return! Glad to hear you're working hard! :) #earlygang
Eljay, I've been meaning to tell you this for a good while now... Thank you. Thank you for the mountain of incredible information you've provided for myself and everyone looking to dive into streaming. Just two months ago I began my streaming journey with nothing more than a wild idea that maybe I could someday have a community of my own. With your help I've been able to grow at an insane pace and I already have a humble community that I love to interact with. When I started I didn't even know what OBS was, but with your help I was able to grow smart and dive in with a splash. So thank you for being such a great mentor for all of us.
This is a very kind message, I really appreciate it :) hope all goes well for you and I’ll do my best
Much appreciated! I've had ideas to be more interesting for a while, but was consistently getting stuck in the mindset of "It won't be worth it, I'll just mess it up" but you've put forward a great point! So what's the harm in trying!
I have been watching a lot of your vids recently, even using one of your amazing overlays, thanks again. Yet the videos also told me I needed to do something but being a bit harder for me being mute. I started to use a TTS (Text to speech) program and really hope that might help to get in touch with my chat :3
Hope it goes well, good luck!
Another awesome video. Thanks, Eljay! I just started 2 months ago and been steadily growing thanks to your tips. I've noticed a recurring tip/theme to your videos and it's *consistency*. It's kind of disheartening to not see views grow or followers but I'm going to keep trying to make good content and try to do better the next time.
Hey thanks for the kind comment! I think consistency and improving yourself are the two major keys to success at anything! Streaming just will always have other difficult factors to it that make it hard to do both of those things.
And hey, #earlygang :)
I'm a small streamer myself. Even if this advice just seemed like common sense I completely didn't realize how entertaining my streams actually have to be.
I sat down after what you said and tried breaking down what makes my content good or entertaining to a live viewer. All I came up with was.. I'm wholesome sometimes, engage with chat, and wait for something random to happen in hopes of it being funny or something to talk about.
All my yt shorts and tiktok videos are all based off of those random moments. Relying on something random comes back as random in consistency.. You cannot predict random and cannot completely rely on random events. Not only do I rely on random.. I also pretty much only play Valorant or Overwatch which both games are full of streamers already. Its very very competitive and hard to find ppl on through categories and even if you look through the least viewed streams.. There are just so many the chances of finding me are very very slim..
I've branched out to yt shorts and tiktok, but still very hard to grow if I can't find the content people want to watch and are willing to use their time watching longer then 5 minutes.
I will get better through everything I learn and everything I work on changing to become more entertaining. But now I see why I'm not as successful as my piers.
Thank you, Stream Scheme
If you want to grow then you might have to do less of what you want and more of what the viewers want. This might mean taking a break from your regular games and playing some cult classics (think Hollow Knight, Cuphead, horror games). If these aren't your jam I'd recommend trying SOMETHING new rather than waiting for a funny moment that may never come. Shouldn't rely too heavily on luck to succeed BUT one can increase their luck using proper tactics. Always be trying something new, adding something new and keeping things fresh. If you're on camera try wearing something different, or that'll capture the eye. Keep going!
I've been really losing the drive to create content and keep a regular schedule on my stream. Hearing the things you had to say here was kind of the swift kick I needed to get my head straight and dive back into it. Keep doing what you're doing! It's honestly helping so many get the most out of their time striving to become discovered! Thank you.
Great stuff as always! Love the idea of using your title as a summary for the stream, but also a self-pitch to see if your stream idea is good to you. Cause if you wouldn't click your own stream, why would you expect someone else to?
Exactly how I think man, also the reason I re-watch many of my videos.
I actually really appreciate this. We all need that wake up call. I’m just starting out, have a couple RUclips videos and streamed a couple times. I still have to learn the in’s and out’s of everything, but every little bit of information is incredibly helpful. I actually just streamed earlier today and I’m gonna cut it down to bits and post it everywhere. Gotta start somewhere, right?
Well said! I streamed one of my videos, with the mindset that I would later take it and make a video out of it. It was a 15 hour stream in total, and I averaged 1 viewer (which was my friend). I took that video, edited it down to a digestible 10 minute video and now it sits at around 400k viewers. I don't even stream on twitch anymore, I switched to RUclips pretty quickly lol.
Great video!
What attracts me to a streamer: Family-friendly content, relaxing environment and/or gameplay (one guy I follow makes donuts in his bakery at night!), and the streamer's willingness to engage with their viewers. That's what I put into my own because that's what keeps me coming back to theirs.
Between this and the podcast you got the best content creation advice out there, KEEP EM COMIN
Appreciate that! Hope the content helps mate! Thanks for the support! #earlygang
I know everyone has there own style that comes naturally to them, but what I found worked for me when I was very small was I spent a decent amount of time not streaming, but on twitch in other small community streamer channels that I loved. The relationships with them and communities grew from there. Don't underestimate the power of other smol beans like you ☺️
it really is nice to give someone what you want as well.
Plus it can form friendships.
Thanks bro! I wanna thank you a lot for your free Overlays on your Discord. I havent really been happy with all the Overlays I found online, but I LOVED your Old School Cool Overlay. Also thanks a lot for all the content you are putting up. Appreciating uo. You helped me a lot with my stream.
Glad you like them! Thanks for such a kind comment, it is really appreciated! :) #earlygang
Great advice! I am at the beginning of changing my mindset to treat my streams like recording sessions for videos and shorts, and also to plan some challenge/event based streams that can translate to RUclips well! e.g. If I can't do X then I have to do Y. Keep the videos coming in the mean time!
Wasn't entirely sure about how this would pan out, but honestly you made a lot of excellent points and I absolutely plan on taking these ideas with me into my creations in the following months.
Thanks so much for the tips dude, keep up the awesome work!~✨💕🌸
These videos are pretty great! Been binging a lot of them lately
Gave me more of a push to consider actually schedule my streams and see what works .and try something new and have goals to work towards, I've got the resources and such, now i just got to use them. Thanks man, I'd love to see you in my stream one day! :)
Been streaming for over a year. Creating content on TikTok / RUclips since I started. I say all this to say that this video is 100% facts. You explained this better than anyone has. More people need to hear the truth behind streaming and content creation. Well done!
100% agree with everything you've said here (and in a crap load of other vids of yours I've recently watched). That said, I'm only streaming and making (minimal) content for fun, not to make money or become popular. I have a fulltime job as an IT contractor that pays extremely well and streaming etc is really just a nice way for me to relax (and waste a lot of money on gear I don't really need lol). I enjoy casual gaming and I honestly don't care if I have 1 or 1000 viewers. If someone finds me interesting or sees something in one of my streams/vids that helps them in a particular game, that's great. If they don't, then so be it.
Love this out look, Novo!
"it's better to try and fail"
This is my thoughts exactly. Idk why but I feel like there's less "regret" (maybe there's a better word) when you've at least tried. If you don't even try, you'll never know if you could've succeeded...and that just feels so much worse, and I speak from experience of never having the guts to ask my parents for acting or singing lessons when I was younger and - to this day, I still wonder how it would've gone if I had actually asked for them.
It's why I just freaking went for it when I decided that I wanted to start streaming the games I play...and they were surprisingly encouraging.
PeachySaiyann & NubbinsInc - I love the chaos in Peachy's streams, the sound alerts, the randomness and overall fun. I love Nubbins' values, humor and professionalism. They also both play games I have interest in, so I do enjoy the gameplay, but I'm really there for personality!
Every time you say you're being harsh, I'm seeing you A. Showing us the tools to help us and B. Telling us how to fix things. What I consider to be harsh is saying "Well you just kinda suck" and leaving it at that. I love how constructive your criticism is and absolutely appreciate that you're taking the time to help us grow! Thanks so much for giving us tools to succeed! It's almost 5 in the morning for me right now, but tomorrow I plan to take a look at those tools for editing that you provided and learning how to use them! I've been wanting to learn how to do that so bad! You're absolutely amazing!
Great video as always! Quick question, what is that animated chat overlay you’re using?! 👀
just commenting for the algorithm love ur content keep it up!
Appreciate these videos. I guess the hard part is starting. Like you said, someone just sitting in their room playing games isn't hard, it's the effort in trying to be different and entertaining for viewers to be worth watching. However, for a lot of us small streamers it's hard because that's all we have access too, it's a part of the growth so I guess that's where it's hard because you want to be entertaining but don't access to the tools to help and if no one cares to watch how will you ever hope to grow if the service isn't sustaining itself. Understand what I'm saying? It's a hard balance in the very beginning and why a lot of small channels fail cause it's not sustaining for them to grow its why viewers and engaging your community is important to any channel.
Guess the key is consistency, you'll get demotivated, you'll want to give up but just hang in there one day you can put more resources into growing the brand and expanding the content.
Thanks a lot for this! I really appreciate the hard work and effort. I have 3 questions:
1) I know you mentioned I got to be entertaining even at 0 viewers, but How do you vocally do this without anyone? You tell stories and stories hoping one person pops in and laugh? or do you just say what's happening in the game.
2) I have some ideas for content and challenges that MIGHT not be what people are looking for. Should I still aim try to make it? I think it's interesting, I just don't know if someone will actually search for that challenge.
3) Is the niching down on one single game actually worth it if I got other ideas for other games? For example, I try BotW, which botw I'm hardly getting growth, but I have an idea for the new kirby game. My doubt is, is it bad to put out BotW content and then kirby? then go to pokemon and zelda again?
Answers! :)
1.) This entirely depends on your content, biggest recommendation, go watch a RUclipsr who records videos, go watch their videos that are recorded OUTSIDE of the Stream, see how they talk and make it engaging without a chat.
2.) Yes! Try everything! If it fails, you learn, if it succeeds you learn!
3.) Don't niche to a game! Niche to an audience demographic! Pointcrow does Nintendo, Challenges, Speedruns these are topics that share an audience demographic. AmbigiuousAmphibian does Survival, Challenges, strategy. These all share an audience.
#earlygang
@@StreamScheme Incredibly grateful for this reply! thanks a lot man. Grateful to have your content to help others. I really appreciate your time to reply to this.
Huge thanks! This video and your reply inspired me even more!
Have a wonderful day eljay and everyone!
What I can say with a small stream channel on twitch myself on what helped me is this.
I’ll start with I have 79 followers averaging around right now 5-10 peaking around 15 viewers which is good for a small streamer. What I did to help grow was simply start sharing my twitch links when I stream in discord servers I’m in as friends, or random people who roam the server will join and and usually support you.
I also made a tik tok for my twitch where I would make quick 30 second edited clips from my stream and post it for people to watch and help gain more publicity.
Also keep streaming as being a small streamer you just need to keep consistency and don’t be discouraged as everyone starts somewhere.
Note: also figure out what you enjoy playing and what genre attracts the most people. For me I like playing action so Apex and Val when I play is about 5-8 viewers. But horror is something I sorta enjoy and my viewers like watching me get scared so I get 10-15.
Hope this helps
I always appreciate your videos and advice Eljay.
Back when I started streaming, it was clearly to make a job out of playing games, and to a degree yeah its still something id like to do.
But
Last year I started making YT content(COD Warzone since it was what I was playing), and it wasnt until the 3rd video that I started finding the flow I wanted and realized how to make my content different from others, and you know what that was:
Editing.
Something I had done very little of before, but now im quite confident, and I realize I actually enjoy it as much, if not more than streaming. I like more longform videos so that makes it difficult to edit shorts / tiktoks in between, but ive made the odd ones here and there, but mainly I keep pushing myself to learn more editing techniques, to improve each video in one way or another, heck the one im working on next is the most intricate ive done to date because of stuff ive learned.
So in the end, I found another passion I never knew I had, and while I love streaming (And yes im actually putting your advice to work) I cant help but love editing YT videos more, especially so I can put stupid little jokes in that make me laugh.
I just want to say thank you for taking time out of your daily life to upload a video like this to help us Small Time streamers out and I promise you you're not going to hear no complaining for me I really appreciate the advice that you're giving and I like that you are speaking the truth even if it is a little harsh and people do need to hear that at times and I'm going to take what you have suggested and incorporate that into my streams so I just wanted to say thank you and I'm the type of person that always pushes to do better and take criticism even if it is a little harsh because again you got to hear that so thank you and I hope you're having a great day
6:06 Did anyone else hear Richard Ayoade's voice here for a second? Jajaja
In all seriousness though, thank you for these videos! I just followed your stream the other day and I love your community!
I've seen a bunch of your videos already, and I love them. Thanks again for making them!
This is awesome. Thanks so much for reminding me to get back on the wagon and make my streams better like they were when I first started. Much love bro
I started streaming in 2015 or so. For 5 years my channel didn't grow much, about 125 followers.
But when around 2020 I got the idea to talk a bit about my twitch on RUclips (where I was starting to get a little bit of people, around 10K) and it was a winner: I know I have a very good reading level so I started doing morning reads of LOTR and games that were "Lord of the Rings" themed with the hype that was building around the Amazon series, I quickly grew and as I write, I'm approaching 700 followers on Twitch!
Your advices are pure gold!
I might just add: make a clear and precise program that you stick to and share it on your socials ;)
Eljay! I just wanted to say, I did my very first stream last night, and it went amazing! I gained my first 15 followers, averaged 7 viewers, and even got my first raid! I took a lot of your advice to heart, and people were even saying it was one of the least scuffed first streams they've seen! (Uh, I did totally manage to forget to increase the font size for the chat box 1🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️) but other than that, your videos and tips have really helped me so far, so thank you so muxh for your wonderful tips, tutorials, etc!
I tend to often agree with you, so I'd say good job with your videos. You're right, most of people just make excuses. It's true that some content needs viewers (like pointcrow's video) to do anything at all but just start with something else interesting that doesn't need them. Once you get enough viewers, playing with them is an awesome idea!
I'm a "small" german streamer and i like your vids as i learned a lot of them. A lot of the infos i've wrote down in Word, started sorting them and read them again and again to get them into my brain.
Thanks for this and I look forward to the next videos!
What would you recommend? RUclips shorts or tiktok ? I've been streaming for abit and nearing 3k followers but have been stuck at 20 - 30 average and want to level up
Rn I'm working on getting a nice vtuber model done but I don't really do much outside of twitch anymore
I’d recommend full RUclips videos on discoverable topics, but otherwise Tik toks and shorts (shorts on their own specific channel) :)
@@StreamScheme I see thanks for the response might look into tiktok
I discovered you a week ago and honestly have been watching a lot of your videos, and all I have to say is it's inspiring me to keep on the grind. Keep up the great content!
Wonderful advice and content as always Eljay. I'm still clicking on your videos over a year after subscribing. 👏🔥💥
I appreciate that! It is wild to see so many amazing familiar community members still working :)
@@StreamScheme If it wasn't for your channel, I would have given up by now. I recommend your channel to anyone who asks me for advice on streaming.
Agreed. This is a burner but I grew so much when posting on other platforms but personal life got in the way and after that I grew lazy. I genuinely enjoy making content and aim to get back on it!!! I enjoy every person that comes in my streams just to say hi or stop by!! It means alot!! Thanks for the video!!
I am still a small streamer and have a small community, but I changed my niche to Retro because I can talk about it and actually enjoy it. I am so over AAA games. Anyway, I was wondering what was wrong, and why I lose ppl other than over time ppl come and go. Thanks, man! I will try and put these tips into practice. Good vibes.
Another great video, i fell like the idea of an video is way more important than the editing and quality. Also thanks Eljay, mostly cause of you i reached over 500 subs on YT with the stream starting to pick up :D
Idea and concept destroy everything else, I have 2 videos coming up on the channel PURELY about just that pretty much!
And your growth is your own hard work :) #earlygang
Eljay I just want thank you for the awesome advice! I've been afraid to even touch tiktok, but my little community has been clipping some funny horror moments so I'll start with those. I'm having so much fun streaming and can already see improvement from weeks ago by following your advice, and just being myself!
Hope the TikTok guide helps :) Honestly, I think it is very powerful when used right! :) Good luck mate!
my man. your streaming tips are INSANELY good.
I don't really have any streamers I look up to at the moment other than my friend who just got his first sponsor. Listening to your video made me think on how to use the fact that I'm often the lore nerd for anything I'm into and how I can incorporate that into my streams. I'm playing through Dragon Age atm which is one I know a lot about so I'm mostly explaining in world stuff and what things are going to change between the first and the rest. I also plan to explain the novels and comics when they occur chronologically. Your video has made me feel a bit more confident in embracing my lore nerdy self and let it out more in stream.
Ok wow, loved this video. I am trying to do a push to grow this year and I have been trying to think of ways to do so. Needed that little extra "You can do it". I have even downloaded software to learn editing but I might try TikTok as well! Thanks for all your help king!
Started a month ago, I'm now affiliated, I'm so happy and excited for the future!! I have used many of your tips, spent hours planning and tweaking, just need to start posting more content to other platforms to really get going! (All from my xbox btw). I used to make excuses about why I can't stream, but lately I have been so passionate to hit the live button and start!! Thank you so much for the help!!!
Making reason why I stream is cause it helps my depression alot, and one thing I need to do is stop thinking nobody will watch me and start to realize just stream and enjoy yourself
I stream about 2-12 hrs depends on how I feel but mostly just do 2-3 hrs fasho
Great video, as always, Eljay!
How do you deal with second-guessing yourself? Let me explain. I struggle with seeing cool video/stream ideas, saying "this could make for a great vid," but stopping myself from doing it just because other streamers have already done it. Am I in the right by stopping myself from doing content others have already done, or should I push through and make it my own?
If I find a way to forever not second guess myself, trust me that video will be uploaded instantly hahaha
My rule of thumb these days, just to try say f*ck it, and do what makes me happy.
I made amazon buy streams because it seemed fun, Ludwig already did it, but hey my chat loved it!
Do your best to push through to what you enjoy!
@Stream Scheme Thanks for the reply! I will give that approach a try! My inspiration is always greater than my available time, but I work with what I've got. Thanks for putting these guides out. They help so much!
This advice feels very familiar to the advice I give folks who wanna do art and look at my stuff like "Dang you draw really well, I'll never draw that good." Like, I didn't get my skills overnight. You just gotta keep making interesting art content and keep trying to give it your best quality. It takes time to get really good at these things. So A+ on this video's advice. It's all about putting in the effort and sticking to it.
Thank you Eljay, awesome as always, I have recently started creating more RUclips content (game reviews and stream comedy completions etc) and already I am noticing some new people coming to twitch, your videos always help give me a little boost and realise this is what I want to do! :) I don't think these words were harsh they are wise! :D
Bro, you have just made one of the best videos for Twitch streamers I have ever seen! Honestly, the main message here, stream to create content and publish your content, goes a long way! Thank you for the inspiration! I look forward to my growth on Twitch and will be following this advice to the letter!
This is the second video I've seen where you said you hoped it wasn't harsh, it's not at all, thank you for all the motivation!
I don't stream yet but I still find the videos interesting, great video, also I so.ehow didn't know u had Ur own RUclips channel
Kept it a secret for personal projects and experimenting hahaha Hope the video helped mate! :) #earlygang
Thanks for the video mate! I always make the excuse that I don't have time to make RUclips videos while working full-time as well as streaming but I've been stuck in that mindset that it needs to be HYPER polished before it goes out good to see that if the content is engaging enough it can still do well!
Another informative banger. You nailed all of it. Thanks again man!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope it helps! :) #earlygang
Hi Eljay! I recently found your content and have been watching a lot of your videos for advice as I'm going to start streaming soon, and I've been finding it very helpful. However, there is one thing I haven't been able to find any advice on, not just from you but from anyone. I've been able to find videos and advice on what you should do BEFORE you start streaming, but not what you should do ON your first stream. I've never seen anyone's first stream before (except for VTubers but they have a very specific way of doing a first stream that I don't think applies to the normal streamer population) but I think it would feel awkward to introduce myself briefly and immediately jump right into content. If you (or anyone else reading this comment) have any advice, I would appreciate it!
I did actually cover this, super early on the channel and recently as well.
I honestly think if you watched my 32 tips video (second most viewed) and my How to Grow to 25 average viewers video, you'll be pretty much covered :) #earlygang
@@StreamScheme I think I watched those already, but I'll watch them over again to see if I missed anything. Thank you!
I’ve been wanting to go from a guide RUclipsr to an actual entertaining RUclipsr and streamer for a long time. Knowing Smallant and those like him, they really set me on the right path to what I want to make. Even though my game (Genshin Impact) has an extremely defined meta when it comes to content. I’d really like to make all my content actually interesting to watch by doing these challenges instead of having reaction and playthroughs alone.
Thank you so much for making this video after watching I realized that I really was making low quality content and all of these tips make a lot of sense! I also thank you for not trying to sugar coat it because I do often find my self trying to rationalize why I am not doing some of the things you mentioned! Your videos are a huge help!
Very good video! I don't think any of what you said is necessarily wrong, but I'm not sure how it's useful or applicable to me. I'm a small channel and I have had limited success gaining follows by sharing a link in games. My most recent stream on RUclips was a 5 hr long Overwatch 2 Support placements video. I didn't really have viewers and if I did it was for short moments but I was giving commentary. I get really anxious if I focus too hard on the commentary and get a form of writers block, so for me I try to focus on the game and let the commentary come on it's own. I have recently started making myself only read comments in-between games and at the end of the stream and that is helping me organize myself as well. I appreciate any tips or advice I can get but I understand ultimately it will come down to me and the work I am willing to put into it.
I am trying to figure out social networking and better ways to advertise streams as advertising in game usually gains me about 1-2 subscribers per stream.
12:18 These Pointcrow and Smallant examples are so good. Especially since I watch both of them. In fact, Pointcrow is who brought me over to Twitch in the first place, and it was one of his older BotW challenge videos that did it. He has grown a lot since I first followed him a couple years ago.
Hi mate, I'm almost 40, didn't have a clue about streaming and now i'm slowly getting better and better. A lot of that is thanks to you and your videos, you're doing gods work sir, if god concentrated on streaming video games. Just wanted to say thanks
As a small streamer I tend to spend a lot of time planning what are we going to do on stream and try to balance my passion of art and gaming, sometimes even making fanarts of the games we play.
I used to edit the footages to upload them on RUclips but I got a bit discouraged after feeling like nobody was watching either the speedpaints, the vods or the compilations, as if neither of these work. I want to get a written schedule so people will know better what to expect from me and when, as discoverability is also very difficult for me.
Thank you for the inspiring video Eljay, keep being awesome! ♥
ps: I wanted to ask you to review my Twitch for critique, but I don't feel confident doing that yet, maybe when I'll be a little bit more sure of myself :,>
Thanks for all your awesome videos bro! I'm loving making content and streaming with friends/viewers. I'm super small but admittedly it's fun and now just has become part of my normal life.
I have literally been binging your content for the past few days even before my first stream on last friday and all your tips have had such high value. I'm still a bit unsure about a lot of things, like people telling you all the time "Don't be a variety streamer, focus on one game only" and I wonder if I can still play two games, I wonder if my game I chose is too oversatured with 12-22k viewers (Genshin Impact) and so on and on. And while I still have all those worries, there's a bunch of stuff I still learned from the binge. I made sure that my titles are engaging, I've thought about a couple play of words and jokes from the game as titles for the next streams, things that make people click on me out of all these. According to friends who've been into streaming a while the numbers for my two streams are pretty well, but to grow a community is the hard way.
And the most important thing I learned, from anyone stopping by who may see my comment: turn of the view count. During my first stream I was pretty hyped and I didn't see the view count, cause I didn't see my own stream and forgot to open the twitch app on my phone. When I saw I had 8 viewers I was hyped. Yea, 3 of them were my friends but there were still 5 strangers watchng my stuff that's awesome! Midway through the stream it dropped down to 3, once we even had only 2 which were literally two of my 3 friends mentioned earlier. I got so upset and I tried to mask, but ofc it was discouraging. The same happened on my other stream yesterday. First I was upset that the max I "only" got were 5 people and the other half of the stream were 3-4 with a very quiet chat in comparison to friday, so I got super selfconcious. I had improved my audio, my layout, everything - why were there less people? Ever since then I told myself to not look at it, because I feel like the moment I had figured out how to see your view count, I was doomed. I was happy, excited, streaming like this is what I do every day until I saw this 2. Don't look! It doesn't matter. :)
All really good points! Coming up with content ideas can sometimes be daunting, but you can do it! It's something I am struggling with atm, but I keep trying!
Honestly thank you sooo much, I came to watch your explanation vids so I could boost myself and my stream and its actually working so much appreciated man high respect for you because i knew nothing about what I was doing at the start and now I may not know too much but I am starting to get more control over my content and i’m beginning to grow more and more and its all honestly thx to you ❤
13:43 is this a "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon"-reference? ;)
joking aside, do you think, if you're streaming on youtube, then uploading a relevant short for the stream's content would be good to boost the livestream numbers, when the stream starts shortly after the upload?
for example, in csgo showing a specific smoke with a tiny frag montage using that smoke, then showing the effect of the smoke in the stream playing only the map for that day.
Thanks Eljay. I needed this today. I need a quality boost myself. So my channel isn't live till then. I could go audio-only till I get a better camera and overlays.
Just found you on my recommendations. Second video I’ve watched and so far VERY helpful. My problem with the webcam part, I don’t want to show my face. I want to keep that part of my identity anonymous. TheDooo does it and he’s one of my favorite RUclipsrs
i can tell you actually care, hope the best for you! thank you for this video
I've honestly been looking for a way to make my streams more engaging as a small streamer (aside from acknowledging chat which I try to did every time. Did just watch your vid on getting more chatters btw, very helpful :3) and your "chat can turn off my controller* idea is quite inspiring, as were the examples you shared from other streamers at 11:10 . I tried putting a challenging twist on a game recently and, while I feel it did slightly better than my other content, I have a few ideas now for getting chat involved and for just spicing up my content in general.
That's the best moral of the story ever! "It's better to try and fail, than to have never tried at all. (And still fail)"
happy to bump you in the algorithm lad, quality advice and sound rationale
Thanks for this, and for the reference to the TikTok/RUclips video, as I'm trying to learn that too
Happy to help! and I do hope it helps! :) #earlygang
Watching your channel it has helped me grow over the past year and a half, albeit slow steady growth, but everything you say has helped me go from 3 average to 30+ avg now. There is a bump in the road for every milestone. But keep pushing and innovating in your own way helps.
This is really helpful! I'm a new streamer myself, believe it or not, and am constantly trying to think of ways to make people actually want to engage with chat and myself, ways to entertain viewers, etc. It's a grind but things are starting to pick up!
I've been honestly trying my best to make stuff like shorts, but it's always so tiring to go through entire streams to find the cool moments, just because I have such a bad memory. As well asmy love-hate relationship with streaming, that definitely doesn't make the shorts strategy easy. I do always try to interact with chat, even if there's like 1 person watching, because if it's one person you still have to appreciate they're there with you!
What do you think about Hover? Also people who inspire me are Armnestra. I love how genuinely goofy excited she gets about stuff. Like the first time she did the egg hunt in Stardew, it was legendary to see her anticipation for the results and then her crushed by Abigail. I need to bring that level of excitement to my stream more frequently.
You'll be glad to know ive always took your advice about still treating ur stream like u have viewers even if you have 0 its perfect practice to being more natural on stream sadly i had to step away from streaming for awhile for personal reasons but the return is coming and thanks to all your helpful videos i know i can make it
The shorts tip is so much help honestly, currently trying to get out of a viewers low, RUclips recommended this video. Now going through some clips
Solid point . As a twitch viewer i havent actually browsed a category in about 2 years now . Alot of the time i feel fortunate for even growing at all as a twitch streamer when i think of how i am as a viewer and that many might be just like me lol Granted in the past couple years ive done alot more content on youtube than twitch but still ... the reality is browsing the categories is a pain because theres just way too many streamers and more so , small streamers . its easier to just follow those u find that u like along the way and resort to your followed list
Awesome video! I’ve been searching around for any kind of video to help give me the boost to keep on going and improve and honestly your video is the only video I could get through. I think it was very well done and all of your points are things I felt slipping on my own channel and you did an awesome job reminding me to do better! Also for somebody like me getting 30k views was insane can’t even imagine 500k
Thank you for the tips I can now hopefully improve my twitch streams thanks again
I am currently prepping to stream and this video 100% validates the road and thinking I have about it all. Thanks for this!
So I want to start streaming, but don't know how. I want to do a unique channel on Twitch where it's primarily horror focused reaction content and occasional gaming. I'm going to watch your videos so I can get the best tips possible. I'm gonna be honest, I'm not confident in myself as far as my ability to make interesting content, but I'm sure as hell gonna try! Thank you for uploading these tips for us!
Hey, Eljay!
I found this video as a happenstance, but I at least wanted to comment as not only a great video comment, but also as some insight/advice from myself as well :P
I stream as a way to hang out with friends, and other people that might stumble on my stream. I think the biggest downer is having that "need to stream" grind mindset that kills a lot of people's motivations. If you stream with the intent that you're streaming for a bunch of friends, and more importantly, that you're just having a fun time with them, people will come to you just to talk, and, well, hang out! My biggest motivators from other streams are Vinny, and Joel from Vinesauce; it's all they do. They're funny, they're lax, and I come back to them all the time, because that's who I want to be - a laid back streamer that has people come for the chill vibes. I'm not really into making streaming my career, but maybe that's why I'm not as stressed out when it comes to numbers.
Start strong, and finish strong. Even though I have almost 70 followers (crazy number, honestly), I get maybe two people watching all the time. Even when the counter sits at 0, I still act like people are watching, or are going to watch the vods. Be yourself! If you want to be an entertainer, follow the video like he explains. Otherwise, just play games like you do with your friends, and by yourself. Don't be obligated to keep talking, but if you have chatters, definitely talk to them :D
I know this was uploaded literally 9 months ago, but something I've found true (reference point at about 4:35 in video), is that "mediocre" gameplay is one of the best possible scenarios for gameplay skill.
The reason being that it's relatable to the audience and often, hilarious, unintended things happen as a result.
Never let being "bad" at a game hold you back. People LOVE that stuff.
Right now I'm at 24 followers on twitch, my youtube is at 6 subscribers. What your saying in this video an your other videos, I am taking notes on an trying my best to apply them. It's gotten to the point where I've done a lot of research an now I'm trying to turn it all into an action that can propel forward. To that end the next stream I do I don't want to simply be playing a game, I want what I'm doing to matter to someone aside from myself. Your videos helped me really understand that.
Thank you for this advice. This video has been very helpful and i could say even a push in the right direction. You just pointed out difficult but also easy it is to start out. I personally never thought of looking at the beginning of streamers time and focused on the now. Its always been an issue of confidence but I think i wont be that worried about that now. Thank you!☺☺
first person i floowed and subbed to was Matty Braun on twitch. His charasmatic energy and all around goofiness has me coming back every time. also, he has a giant cheese he just picks up when commanded to. not to mention his entire community is such a pleasure to chat with. as a streamer myself. i do variety games and my big "Thing" is just a hangout place "the gamez room" that ppl can come into and just feel like they went to a friends house to chill and chit chat.
Honestly, the last part...was exactly something I needed today! Thanks
I don't personally stream, but my favorite streamer is Sim_Play_Loraine. She streams sims content, although right now we are all obsessed with the new Disney Dreamlight Valley game!! The thing I love about her streams, and what keeps me coming back, is the amount of chaos we are allowed to do during her streams! She eats Bean Boozles, Spicy chips, She has it where we can stop her current gameplay and she has to do solo Phasmo for a certain amount of time. She has now gotten some extremely spicy gummies and suckers (the sucker dares you to suck on it for 5 minutes!!) All these things keep me coming back to watch her!!!
the last part of advice at 15:00 hit deep, thank you man.. i'll try my best!
Ive started streaming a few weeks ago. I binge watched almost every video you put out before I felt I was ready to start lol
I’m lucky to have some following on instagram because of my car and drifting content. So I figured the perfect way to start would be a nostalgic game that not only me, but most of my followeres (3.5k) played as a child. Was lucky to have 18 average viewers on my first stream playing Need for Speed Most Wanted, and people liked it a lot!! And its so cool to see them excited for the next stream. I’m doing NFS on Wednesdays and Minecraft on fridays now, and feedback has been a lot better than I expected, getting 10-20 average viewers with only like 70 followers now. Definitely the secret to it is not the game, not how good you play the game, but how entertaining you are, how you engage with your chat and how your viewers come back for you and not for the game. Building a community is a big key. Thanks Eljay!!
I don't typically listen to the "like and comment" spiel that most content creators put out there, but this is something I'll actually do that on, the advice is solid and I want to take it to heart. I have an active streaming schedule, but you're absolutely right, I don't put forth the effort to make shorts to help advertise my stream when whacky shit happens, all I do is play the fucking game with my dry ass commentary and then reupload the stream on RUclips. I don't consider myself interesting or funny in the goddamn slightest, unfortunately. I WANT to be funny and entertaining, just a dumbass lmao. But yeah, you're right, that's probably just a mental excuse I'm using to avoid attempting to make shorts and the like. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the video.
Three major inspos right now:
Mori Calliope (huge music talent and punished gamer)
Selen Tastuki (nickanamed "chuckle dragon")
Yuuka Bear (hilarious commentary, amazing voice skills)
All different sizes, all different styles, but they're each so good at engaging their viewers in their own way. They also make a lot of cool stuff besides streaming- I myself have recently grown from 0 to nearly 500 subs on YT, and the huge majority of that has been from video essays, youtube shorts, and (most recently) tiktok stuff. Also since I started focusing on specific games, namely Omori, Animal Crossing and Genshin, it seems like more people come by and stick around to see where things go!
I need to get better at asking mundane questions that get people interested in chatting without feeling put on the spot. Also... I've been taking guitar and voice coaching lessons, and wanna start adding music to my streams, but man I'm kind of nervous to start with that! I'm a baby beginner. But I'm proud of how many ways I've expanded over the past year!
These are really nice tips.
I just want to have around an average of 5 to 10 people watching.
streaming is so much more fun when you can talk with your chat and I would enjoy streaming so much more if i knew I wasnt just talking to myself.
As long as one person is watching, then I dont feel like im wasting my time