Honestly, from personal experience, this is such a good take. I hit affiliate after 2 months of streaming, and now I average between 7-10 viewers, and I didn't even realise how many of these points I actually followed naturally. The only other thing I'd mention for this video is also making sure to bring in viewers from other platforms, like RUclips, and trying to bring in an audience on here by using highlights from streams, or showing off a challenge that was completed while live. As soon as I had a video pop off a little bit, my twitch followers and viewer count doubled by the start of my next stream.
Making Content Elsewhere is a MASSIVE way to grow your stream. It is something I will tell everyone who has done these first steps, but if these first steps aren't there yet: That has to be put into place first. Making content on TikTok and RUclips with the intention to send them to Twitch is not very useful if you don't have a schedule, have a niche, and make interesting content. That said: You are 100% right. The next step after this is making content elsewhere and funneling people to Twitch.
The whole core-viewer is where I'm trying to be. Like you and Tom, your streams revolve around my availability to watch. I try to stream at 8pmET, after kids are in bed, twice a week. Granted I've only been doing this two weeks. I hope Phasmo is a good game to start in because as of now it's what my niche is. I know this isn't going to click overnight, and maybe not even the first month. I just want to build something, no matter how long it takes.
You have the right attitude, Cryptic! You show you are ready to commit time and set it up in such a way that people who found you once can find you again. Great start, keep working,. keep developing your skills, and don't give up!
All my life I’ve been a little overweight, 6’3 215 and have no issue with my weight. However my chat loves to mess with me about it. I buy into the joke but setting up jokes about my weight and having a pan in my setup that I use when I get “mad” at the chat or the game. It’s funny as hell and my viewers love it, you have to create a streaming “character”. Something that’s funny and interactive with the viewers to keep them there
Some people love that, absolutely! Others prefer a more genuine approach, but that doesn't mean they don't have a character too! You are right, it just depends how far you want to push it for your community!
Amazing tips. Will be following all of it. I have been struggling myself on my twitch to get 3 consecutive viewers. I mainly stream apex legends but as you said that if you select games with views between 1k-5k and many followers, we need to stream that game to build a community. For Eg. Baldur .
Exactly, but there are things you can do to get better discovery - Although that requires making content on other platforms to really break out: Short form content is great at the moment.
The Last Of Us on PS5 gave me viewers and chatters, streamed that games 2 times and was my 2 best streams yet so im focusing on finishing the game and im already almost affiliated
I have a question. Try to get the 3 average viewers on twitch I listened to all the tips. Something is not added up streamed for 1:20 minutes I had 5 devices up that I created 5 separate twitch accounts and had them open the whole twitch stream and chatting. Also my son and wife was on my stream the whole time and had 3 other people in my chat aswell and my viewers on showed 1 and after I was done my summary said I had a average of 1.2 viewers. How is that possible. When I had 5 devices open the hole stream and my wife and son that should have been 7 viewers. Im confused. Any help on that?
That is a very good question, but there are quite a lot of different things that can cause this: - If the player volume is zero you might not count as a viewer. - If all 5 devices, your son, and your wife were on the same IP address then it may have only counted one of them. (This is a Bot prevention measure from Twitch) However I am not able to give a definitive answer, I'm afraid.
@ContentDelta Man that is interesting. Might try again tomorrow. With the volume up and you might be right. All the devices are in the same household. So you think if I turn of the wifi on the devices and use the cellular network it might register
@@Flaxko-97 Does that even count either? I mean if its from the same IP as you are streaming FROM then why would it count as a viewer? Im just asking because from a logical standpoint if I was Twitch I absolutely wouldnt count a single viewer from within the same household. Maybe they allow one as a "benefit of the doubt" thing but I wouldnt be surprised if it counts as zero.
@@OrionDakotait count u can actually get 2 views from the same ip as long as it’s a different account so you would count as 1 and have some1 make an account and that’s 2
I just started doing this grind for 3 viewers, does the number of people involved need to be there as soon as the stream starts? or is it per hour? I do not know how the average is calculated in order to count.
It is an average over your stream, so if you have 1 viewer in your first hour and 5 in your second, then the average would be (1+5)/2 = 3. They definitely don't need to be there from the start. Every second people are watching is counted.
@@ContentDelta ok thank you for taking your tine to reply to my comment. This is so good to hear, I have been playing warframe and I have been getting 3 to 6 viewers per stream.
No, you can't just play games. You need to bring your personality, a twist to your game style... -something- that offsets you from all those other people just playing games. Just think "Why would they watch me instead of anyone else?"
It will get you views on RUclips but not as many for sure. I for one love "no commentary lets-play" channels but if you look at the views and subs compared to the rest they are verifiably worse. I get it. You can try using your "just play" footage and making your own commentary/react content from it. Im thinking about doing that for every other video as it occurs to me I have 170gb of recorded video game footage that id like to do something with! What I have a tough time with is thinking about the concept that people who show their face on camera seem to be VASTLY more successful than even commentary gameplay. I dont like the sound of my voice (its bad enough) so its hard for me to enjoy watching and editing videos with my face! Dont know if you have the same thing going on but the bottom line is that RUclips and Twitch are pretty saturated with gaming content and while you can skim SOME views by picking a popular game, you really have to think like he commented above me "why would they watch me instead of anyone else?"
Nah, that is a type of content. You definitely don't need to do this to grow. Just look at many of the biggest streamers. I have not seen KaiCenat or Pirate software do that.
I did my first stream yesterday and it was very foreign to me. I think its hard to make that kind of content for me because I dont really consume that kind of content. Most of the streamers I have seen kind of annoyed me constantly talking to chat and not even playing the game. Maybe I just saw some bad streamers or do you think there is a learning curve when growing as a channel and you have to maintain a balance between talking to chat and your original content? To some people talking to chat IS content but generally I am into a channel for what they are doing, not necessarily "who" is doing it, which is why I spend all my time on RUclips and almost none on Twitch. I mean yeah, I love a good personality but do you think balance is important and not getting too cocky/thinking everyone is there just to hear about your day is especially important when transitioning from being a nobody to this "3 CCV+" streamer?? Maybe I need to spend more time viewing popular streamers on Twitch and its actually not as much of a big deal as I remember. :/
You are asking some very important questions here and some which definitely don't have a direct answer. However there is one thing I do very strongly believe: there are two types of streamers, those who have skills and people watch for that and those who have personality and people are there for them. Personally, I strongly believe that unless you are already extremely good at something it is your personality that gets people to watch you. If you look at the "new generation" of big "stars" such as Ludwig, KaiCenat, and Pirate software than this is definitely the case. The game or whatever they did didn't matter. People were there for them. If you are really good at the game though, you are right, you upload the best of that content to RUclips and funnel them to your Twitch to see you live. But here once again: It is to see you live. The ONLY difference between Twitch and RUclips is that Twitch is LIVE and that means interacting real-time with your audience. If you aren't interacting then they might as well be watching RUclips. That being said... This is a skill, something you will learn over time and something you develop in both as a viewer and a creator. Watch streamers in your space that are further advanced than you but under 100 viewers and see how they handle it. You aren't going to learn from watching people that have 1000s of viewers at this stage.
@@ContentDelta Thats true I know there are different streamers and I suppose I just like to see a balance there somewhere. If a streamer is bad enough at playing a game I get actually annoyed and have to stop watching and just play the game myself. Some popular youtubers are like that too, fun people, just rather BAD at gaming. I do have a bit more sympathy towards streamers for not being as "good at gaming" now that I have an idea the level of multitasking required to be a good content creator. Just trying one stream is enough to put it into perspective! :P Thank you very much for your reply and your video. Worth its weight in GOLD and I hope you get to make a good chunk of change over time from this video having helped so many people!
so not a big talker while no one is around. but when im offline i cant chat about anything im watching. smh now i got my pc up and running now i can try out your self recording technique. can you check me out some time?
@@HollywoodGaming19 Well for one, you gotta put your twitch link in your youtube channel ya dingus! But I was going to say id be happy to watch your stream sometime. I did my first stream yesterday and it was very foreign to me. I think its hard to make that kind of content for me because I dont really consume that kind of content. Most of the streamers I have seen kind of annoyed me constantly talking to chat and not even playing the game. Maybe I just saw some bad streamers/there is a learning curve when growing as a channel and you have to maintain a balance between talking to chat and your original content. To some people talking to chat IS content but generally I am into a channel for what they are doing, not necessarily "who" is doing it. Might be an uphill battle for me trying to make content I dont really enjoy myself. Or I just gotta get on twitch and find someone I enjoy watching and learn from them how to do it right....yeah that makes way more sense now! :P
If you really think that is the case, then I can highly suggest looking at some presentation courses and maybe even taking some improv classes. They can really help!
I'm in the same boat... I'm not funny nor very interacted.. I've been trying to get the average views for months but I didn't know it had to be 30 days
@@ContentDelta I'm testing different things on different platforms trying to figure out what games sell and what don't I have an empty talk account I'm testing that theory on and so far so good
Then that is something to start working on! I started out EXTREMELY boring too, but you just keep on working on it and improving and eventually it gets better. I can highly suggest looking for public speaking videos - they are a gold mine!
Yeah my fiance looked at some of my videos yesterday and told me straight up "when you are talking to me your tone changes and you have excitement in your voice, but not when you are talking in these videos." I think his advice about always treating it like you are talking to 100 people is GOLD. Or if you arent big on public speaking (which may very well be why you are choosing to talk to your camera instead) then imagine your camera is your friend or sibling that you are interacting with. Maybe it will help you sound less like a professor giving a lecture to the whiteboard! Its hard when you dont necessarily like the sound of your own voice and its awkward talking to a camera while alone in a room, but you have to do your best to imagine the people THERE WATCHING YOU, as you know they will be....eventually.
Honestly, from personal experience, this is such a good take.
I hit affiliate after 2 months of streaming, and now I average between 7-10 viewers, and I didn't even realise how many of these points I actually followed naturally.
The only other thing I'd mention for this video is also making sure to bring in viewers from other platforms, like RUclips, and trying to bring in an audience on here by using highlights from streams, or showing off a challenge that was completed while live. As soon as I had a video pop off a little bit, my twitch followers and viewer count doubled by the start of my next stream.
Making Content Elsewhere is a MASSIVE way to grow your stream. It is something I will tell everyone who has done these first steps, but if these first steps aren't there yet: That has to be put into place first. Making content on TikTok and RUclips with the intention to send them to Twitch is not very useful if you don't have a schedule, have a niche, and make interesting content.
That said: You are 100% right. The next step after this is making content elsewhere and funneling people to Twitch.
@@ContentDelta SUBBED YOU JUST NOW THANKS!
The whole core-viewer is where I'm trying to be. Like you and Tom, your streams revolve around my availability to watch. I try to stream at 8pmET, after kids are in bed, twice a week. Granted I've only been doing this two weeks. I hope Phasmo is a good game to start in because as of now it's what my niche is. I know this isn't going to click overnight, and maybe not even the first month. I just want to build something, no matter how long it takes.
You have the right attitude, Cryptic! You show you are ready to commit time and set it up in such a way that people who found you once can find you again. Great start, keep working,. keep developing your skills, and don't give up!
All my life I’ve been a little overweight, 6’3 215 and have no issue with my weight. However my chat loves to mess with me about it. I buy into the joke but setting up jokes about my weight and having a pan in my setup that I use when I get “mad” at the chat or the game. It’s funny as hell and my viewers love it, you have to create a streaming “character”. Something that’s funny and interactive with the viewers to keep them there
Some people love that, absolutely! Others prefer a more genuine approach, but that doesn't mean they don't have a character too! You are right, it just depends how far you want to push it for your community!
Makes me think of that streamer Caso
Bro u aint caseoh
I will turn my hobby into a business and a reality that builds me up
Love to hear it! Keep it up!
Amazing tips. Will be following all of it. I have been struggling myself on my twitch to get 3 consecutive viewers. I mainly stream apex legends but as you said that if you select games with views between 1k-5k and many followers, we need to stream that game to build a community. For Eg. Baldur .
Exactly, but there are things you can do to get better discovery - Although that requires making content on other platforms to really break out: Short form content is great at the moment.
But what if we aren't good with those types of games?
Great video Maths!
Thank you, Kata!
Loved your content my brother. Always be like this. Don't change even if it's just a facade
It is not. This is 100% who I am! So thank you for your kind words!
The Last Of Us on PS5 gave me viewers and chatters, streamed that games 2 times and was my 2 best streams yet so im focusing on finishing the game and im already almost affiliated
Let's go!! That is awesome!
Thanks For The TIPS man much appricaited!
Happy to help! Good luck!
I have a question. Try to get the 3 average viewers on twitch I listened to all the tips. Something is not added up streamed for 1:20 minutes I had 5 devices up that I created 5 separate twitch accounts and had them open the whole twitch stream and chatting. Also my son and wife was on my stream the whole time and had 3 other people in my chat aswell and my viewers on showed 1 and after I was done my summary said I had a average of 1.2 viewers. How is that possible. When I had 5 devices open the hole stream and my wife and son that should have been 7 viewers. Im confused. Any help on that?
That is a very good question, but there are quite a lot of different things that can cause this:
- If the player volume is zero you might not count as a viewer.
- If all 5 devices, your son, and your wife were on the same IP address then it may have only counted one of them. (This is a Bot prevention measure from Twitch)
However I am not able to give a definitive answer, I'm afraid.
@ContentDelta Man that is interesting. Might try again tomorrow. With the volume up and you might be right. All the devices are in the same household. So you think if I turn of the wifi on the devices and use the cellular network it might register
@@SimplyBallDroppinit’s because you can only use one of your own devices per IP address
@@Flaxko-97 Does that even count either? I mean if its from the same IP as you are streaming FROM then why would it count as a viewer? Im just asking because from a logical standpoint if I was Twitch I absolutely wouldnt count a single viewer from within the same household. Maybe they allow one as a "benefit of the doubt" thing but I wouldnt be surprised if it counts as zero.
@@OrionDakotait count u can actually get 2 views from the same ip as long as it’s a different account so you would count as 1 and have some1 make an account and that’s 2
Thank you I get 4 average viewers and it’s only my 9th day streaming
Very nice! Keep it up and keep growing!
thx man =) gonna use alle of this.
That is awesome! Enjoy!
Thank you for this advice.. I'm going to like and sub
Thanks for the sub!
1 more week of my 6 month video game break I can’t wait to come back and start streaming
That is awesome!!
I just started doing this grind for 3 viewers, does the number of people involved need to be there as soon as the stream starts? or is it per hour? I do not know how the average is calculated in order to count.
It is an average over your stream, so if you have 1 viewer in your first hour and 5 in your second, then the average would be (1+5)/2 = 3. They definitely don't need to be there from the start. Every second people are watching is counted.
@@ContentDelta ok thank you for taking your tine to reply to my comment. This is so good to hear, I have been playing warframe and I have been getting 3 to 6 viewers per stream.
Just playing games won’t get you viewers on RUclips?
No, you can't just play games. You need to bring your personality, a twist to your game style... -something- that offsets you from all those other people just playing games.
Just think "Why would they watch me instead of anyone else?"
You have to wear a skimpy swimsuit and straddle a huge inflatable pickle like amouranth and write names on it
It will get you views on RUclips but not as many for sure. I for one love "no commentary lets-play" channels but if you look at the views and subs compared to the rest they are verifiably worse. I get it. You can try using your "just play" footage and making your own commentary/react content from it.
Im thinking about doing that for every other video as it occurs to me I have 170gb of recorded video game footage that id like to do something with! What I have a tough time with is thinking about the concept that people who show their face on camera seem to be VASTLY more successful than even commentary gameplay. I dont like the sound of my voice (its bad enough) so its hard for me to enjoy watching and editing videos with my face!
Dont know if you have the same thing going on but the bottom line is that RUclips and Twitch are pretty saturated with gaming content and while you can skim SOME views by picking a popular game, you really have to think like he commented above me "why would they watch me instead of anyone else?"
Nah, that is a type of content. You definitely don't need to do this to grow. Just look at many of the biggest streamers. I have not seen KaiCenat or Pirate software do that.
How to you find the browse section on twitch.
At the top of the Desktop website there is a bar. Click "Browse" on the left and you can get in.
Thank you
Anytime! It was my pleasure!
I did my first stream yesterday and it was very foreign to me. I think its hard to make that kind of content for me because I dont really consume that kind of content. Most of the streamers I have seen kind of annoyed me constantly talking to chat and not even playing the game. Maybe I just saw some bad streamers or do you think there is a learning curve when growing as a channel and you have to maintain a balance between talking to chat and your original content?
To some people talking to chat IS content but generally I am into a channel for what they are doing, not necessarily "who" is doing it, which is why I spend all my time on RUclips and almost none on Twitch. I mean yeah, I love a good personality but do you think balance is important and not getting too cocky/thinking everyone is there just to hear about your day is especially important when transitioning from being a nobody to this "3 CCV+" streamer??
Maybe I need to spend more time viewing popular streamers on Twitch and its actually not as much of a big deal as I remember. :/
You are asking some very important questions here and some which definitely don't have a direct answer. However there is one thing I do very strongly believe: there are two types of streamers, those who have skills and people watch for that and those who have personality and people are there for them.
Personally, I strongly believe that unless you are already extremely good at something it is your personality that gets people to watch you. If you look at the "new generation" of big "stars" such as Ludwig, KaiCenat, and Pirate software than this is definitely the case. The game or whatever they did didn't matter. People were there for them.
If you are really good at the game though, you are right, you upload the best of that content to RUclips and funnel them to your Twitch to see you live. But here once again: It is to see you live.
The ONLY difference between Twitch and RUclips is that Twitch is LIVE and that means interacting real-time with your audience. If you aren't interacting then they might as well be watching RUclips.
That being said... This is a skill, something you will learn over time and something you develop in both as a viewer and a creator. Watch streamers in your space that are further advanced than you but under 100 viewers and see how they handle it. You aren't going to learn from watching people that have 1000s of viewers at this stage.
@@ContentDelta Thats true I know there are different streamers and I suppose I just like to see a balance there somewhere. If a streamer is bad enough at playing a game I get actually annoyed and have to stop watching and just play the game myself. Some popular youtubers are like that too, fun people, just rather BAD at gaming. I do have a bit more sympathy towards streamers for not being as "good at gaming" now that I have an idea the level of multitasking required to be a good content creator. Just trying one stream is enough to put it into perspective! :P
Thank you very much for your reply and your video. Worth its weight in GOLD and I hope you get to make a good chunk of change over time from this video having helped so many people!
Thank you so much for the kind words! That is exactly why I do this: To help as many people as possible on their journey as a content creator
so not a big talker while no one is around. but when im offline i cant chat about anything im watching. smh now i got my pc up and running now i can try out your self recording technique.
can you check me out some time?
I can't promise I can check you out, but I really hope this technique helps!
@@ContentDelta if you can’t it’s all good and I will continue to grow and learn.
@@HollywoodGaming19 Well for one, you gotta put your twitch link in your youtube channel ya dingus! But I was going to say id be happy to watch your stream sometime. I did my first stream yesterday and it was very foreign to me. I think its hard to make that kind of content for me because I dont really consume that kind of content. Most of the streamers I have seen kind of annoyed me constantly talking to chat and not even playing the game.
Maybe I just saw some bad streamers/there is a learning curve when growing as a channel and you have to maintain a balance between talking to chat and your original content. To some people talking to chat IS content but generally I am into a channel for what they are doing, not necessarily "who" is doing it. Might be an uphill battle for me trying to make content I dont really enjoy myself. Or I just gotta get on twitch and find someone I enjoy watching and learn from them how to do it right....yeah that makes way more sense now! :P
I average 2.2 people and 2 of them are myself! My videos are boring and I try be funny! But I am the only one laughing.
If you really think that is the case, then I can highly suggest looking at some presentation courses and maybe even taking some improv classes. They can really help!
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Hey are you still streaming?
@@abrealewood1933 yes I am still streaming! I have a goal of 1 year and if nothing has changed try something totally new. Then after that give up.
I'm in the same boat... I'm not funny nor very interacted.. I've been trying to get the average views for months but I didn't know it had to be 30 days
I work on Phasmophobia and stream it ALOT
Love to hear it! Still one of my favourite games
@@ContentDelta I'm testing different things on different platforms trying to figure out what games sell and what don't I have an empty talk account I'm testing that theory on and so far so good
Im extremely boring lol
Then that is something to start working on! I started out EXTREMELY boring too, but you just keep on working on it and improving and eventually it gets better. I can highly suggest looking for public speaking videos - they are a gold mine!
@@ContentDelta awesome so there's hope lol. Ok I'll check some out for sure thank you!
Yeah my fiance looked at some of my videos yesterday and told me straight up "when you are talking to me your tone changes and you have excitement in your voice, but not when you are talking in these videos." I think his advice about always treating it like you are talking to 100 people is GOLD.
Or if you arent big on public speaking (which may very well be why you are choosing to talk to your camera instead) then imagine your camera is your friend or sibling that you are interacting with. Maybe it will help you sound less like a professor giving a lecture to the whiteboard! Its hard when you dont necessarily like the sound of your own voice and its awkward talking to a camera while alone in a room, but you have to do your best to imagine the people THERE WATCHING YOU, as you know they will be....eventually.
@@OrionDakota definitely a good way to look at it.
Bro said only fans 💀
If that wasn't clear: it was a joke 🤣