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This content provides a comprehensive guide for aspiring Twitch streamers, covering essential qualities, current meta strategies, and practical setup advice to build a successful streaming platform.
this isn't going to be a
one-size-fits-all but my ultimate advice
here is
twofold don't overthink it don't overdo it
it
even if you have viewers it's not your
viewers job to entertain you
it's your job to entertain them and i
think a lot of small streamers
forget that what i really want to show
you is look at the thumbnails go for one
of these spots that one it's not
covering up anything in your gameplay
and two it's not going to be covered up
by any of the twitch
ui you are your own competition
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hey everybody welcome back to my channel
if you're a new viewer welcome in thank
you so much for joining
i'm hey shady lady if you are a
returning subscriber i just want to let
you know that i've converted this
channel pretty much entirely into only
twitch tutorials
so if you have anything in specific
you'd like to see me talk about please
let me know in the comments below or
anything in this video that you want to
see me
go further in detail about let me know
and i can make more videos on that [Music]
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this is going to be a short but
hopefully thorough presentation on how
you could get started on twitch
now and theoretically create a
successful platform for yourself
i actually collaborated a little bit
with my friend duke stamina
on writing a script for this because he
just recently switched over from being
like an irl content creator a musician
performer who mostly was on facebook but
found that he was struggling with
growing a new following or expanding his following
following
and even monetizing it all and so i
finally convinced him to come on to
twitch because i think twitch is primed
for both of those things
he was a brand new into the twitch world
didn't know much about it at all
any of the tools you needed or anything
like that so this video is created with
him in mind and people who are just
getting into twitch now and don't even
really know where to start or what to do
or anything like that i do have a script
that i've prepared so
if it seems like i'm reading from a
script it's because i am but i just feel
like i deliver the information a little
bit better when i do that
this whole video i'm kind of designed
around the meta of twitch right now
what's currently working on twitch and
what has been for the last
year or so a lot of things have changed
in the last four to five years on twitch
and what's working on the platform
what's selling what gets people to click
and all of that so i kind of want to
cover it as well as i can i'm going to
be making follow-up videos where i spend
much longer going into
gratuitous detail on everything so make
sure you subscribe and hit the
notifications if you want to keep up
with that
if you're already a streamer you may
find some of this information
a little patronizing because i am coming
at this from the perspective of you
really don't know much about twitch or
the platform at all
so sorry about that but maybe you can
still gain some value from this [Music]
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you're ready to start streaming but have
you sat down and thought to yourself
what does it take to be a good streamer
and how can i do that
what exactly is your job as a streamer
what qualities does a successful
streamer need
you can look some of the bigger content
creators and kind of pull some of this
information why are people subscribing
what is he doing
or she doing well what do they offer and
the five qualities that i think are the
most important your job is to entertain
number one number two being consistent
in schedule and vibes
three being self-aware to honestly
reflect on yourself
of what your strengths and weaknesses
are which is going to lead
into you being able to niche well for
being innovative
wherever you can be and five leadership
so just to dive in a little bit as far as
as
your job is to entertain when people are
logging into twitch they're usually
looking for some kind of distraction
from their life whether they're just
getting home from a job
you're really wanting to give them a
space where they can escape and enjoy
and they want to find a chill place
where they can feel connected to others
with a similar passion or
interest so oftentimes you don't even
need to do this big show
with all of these bells and whistles
it's really just the idea of being able
to go
and hang out with someone whose
personality they like that attracts an
audience or
a community of people with similar
energy while they're playing league of
legends or while they're
doing their makeup or whatever your
interest happens to be they're just
looking for that nice comfy little spot
to chill if you're a content consumer
you know what i'm talking about you're
going to a specific channel consistently
because they bring the same type of
energy every time
this is leading us right into consistent
with schedule and vibes
you don't want to start streaming one
day and be raging out and yelling at
overwatch and what the
like angry and then the next day you're
doing asmr
and hello everyone welcome into all this
like chill comfortable quiet space
because at that point your audience is
confused you're probably even confused
as a content creator i'm speaking from
experience here i'm the queen of
bouncing back and forth between
so many different content types to the
point where it's kind of like shot my
own growth in the leg which is why i'm
giving this advice if you're just
starting out and you're trying to
shoot long term pick something and run
with it for a while until you start to
build a kind of consistent
regular fan base at a certain level of
growth you would be able to branch out
of a schedule or branch out of a
specific content style that you've set
for yourself
but to begin with you're just trying to
build momentum
so even if you can only commit to one
day a week
right now and that's all do it at least
set yourself some kind of schedule so
that you can tell your audience when
they come in yeah
my next stream is going to be this day
at this time and we're going to be doing this
this
because then you can at least deliver
the message and you might have some
returning viewers from one stream to the other
other
and it's all about building your
momentum in the beginning and getting
those like three viewers five viewers
seven viewers bumping you up higher in
the category so you can get more visibility
visibility
self-awareness is one that i wanted to
include because it's important
you're going to have some trolls come in
and say some mean things to you or
whatever and if you lose your temper
lose your cool
and just kind of start raging out at
them you want to think of yourself like
a comedian on stage and you've got
someone in the crowd heckling you
think about when you watch comedians and
they lose their cool and they're like oh
this guy sucks get him out of here i
can't believe he's ruining my show
as compared to the comedian that can
keep their cool and
riff off of it make a joke off of it and
then the whole audience is laughing
instead of the whole audience being like
cringed out and embarrassed because this guy
guy
the performer just completely lost his
cool this is kind of like just being
self-aware being able to take a joke
being able to understand like yeah i do
kind of have a goofy smile yeah i do
kind of laugh like that yeah you know
that that's a that's funny like lol
instead of
it's just it's not only going to help
you but it's going to help your audience
just feel
more comfortable it's also important to
have the ability to
assess what you're doing right or wrong
without blaming
others for where you are and that's the
most important thing
it's so easy to be like well you know
i'll i would be a popular streamer too
if i had five thousand dollars worth of gear
gear
i would be a popular streamer too if i
had that specific look i'd be a popular
streamer too if i was doing this
as opposed to just like looking at
yourself what can you offer what are you
bringing to the table and how can you
capitalize on that
how can you create an audience and a
platform around what you have to offer
instead of trying to measure yourself
against every other person
and then being angry at other people's success
success
you are your own competition nobody else's
else's
being a streamer is already a very
innovative field to go into in the first place
place
it's still not very mainstream to be
able to explain to people what a stream
i'm a streamer and then i'll really
understand what you're saying
but on top of being a streamer you still
need to be more innovative you need to
be able to take risks and try things
that you've never seen people do before
just because you're like i have this
idea that i kind of want to
i want to do a stream from my garden
where i'm also drinking a beer
and talking about this movie that i just saw
saw
and why it's a bad movie like and then
boom right there you've got this really
interesting content style like
you know you've already got like a
content style it's like garden boy movie
reviews or something you know what i mean
mean
it's a really interesting concept but
you you might think to yourself like
well everyone just streams from their
room with these like
gamer lights in the background and all
of these like
hit 17 buttons and i do all these crazy
zoom ins on my face and stuff and
if i don't do that then i won't be a
successful streamer meanwhile
doing gamer boy movie reviews with a
beer is nothing that's being done right now
now
so you're bringing something new to the
table you're innovating in a field
you're going against the norms you're
standing out so think about what you
enjoy doing like or
even something that you want to try and
put into your life a little bit more
the final point that i want to talk
about what makes a good streamer is
leadership and i think that this is the
most important and one that comes with
experience and time
i think this is the most important
quality streamer content creator
influencer your job is to lead your
community your job is being the leader
you have to take responsibility you have
to make decisions keep your word when
you say what you're gonna do
do what you say mean what you say say
what you mean and show up when others
need you to show up
when companies are reaching out to
influencers they're doing this because
that person is
leaning they are a leader of their
community and people listen to the
leader so they're like hey leader tell
them to buy our product basically
basically [Music]
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i also think it's important to address
actually think what does success mean to you
you
does success look like a lot of
followers does it look like a lot of
chat interaction
does it look like getting into the field
to be able to do voice acting long term
is it about having the ability to
express yourself freely are you trying
to make money
are you looking for opportunities are
you trying to build a community
what exactly is it that you want out of streaming
streaming
that way you don't get sidetracked
because you don't understand what your
goals are
and so you're just sitting here looking
at the view count and feeling depressed
even though your whole goal the whole
time was to advertise the fact that you
have an album coming out or
advertise the fact that you also crochet
and you have an etsy shop or something
think about what it is that you're
actually trying to accomplish from streaming
streaming [Music]
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another thing that i want to mention is
to understand
why you're streaming in the moment like
what are you hoping to get out of that
stream i think this is really important
because if you go onto your stream and
you stream for six hours playing league
of legends or something and you're
sitting at zero to one viewers maybe no
one's really talked to you the whole time
time
and by hour four five six you're
starting to get angry and depressed
you're feeling like you wasted your time
and no one cares about me
and this is such a this is such a waste
i'm such a loser all of these like this
downward spiral
what did you want to accomplish out of
the stream anyway and this is why i
think it's important for streamers to be
content creators on other platforms
because immediately you can counteract
this by just going into your stream
with the idea of at the end of this
stream i want to have
three hours of footage that i can edit
up into a youtube video that i can use
for other purposes
and then even if you don't have any
viewers or people chatting to you
you still have valuable content at the
end of it that you can
change and transform into something else [Music]
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so now that you're kind of getting a
feeling for what you need to be
as far as a content creator goes what
you need to bring to the table as a
content creator
let's look at what's already on the
table we're gonna do a little
stream theory here and talk about the
current twitch meta or the most
effective tactics
available a year or two ago the recipe
for success used to be
streaming eight hours a day five days a
week 40 hours a week
right hyper focusing on one game title
or one genre
i stream 40 hours of overwatch every
week i stream 40 hours of dead by
daylight every week
times have changed the current meta is
all about cross promoting your content
across multiple platforms
i have seen multiple people blow up
because they've had a couple of viral
twitter videos they'll post some kind of
funny twitter skit or something
and then they build an audience on
twitter and then the next thing you know
they've gone from 20 average viewers on
twitter to 90 average viewers to 130 to
getting twitch partner
just because they've built a little bit
of clout on another platform
so now we're going to switch over to a
screen capture so i can show you guys a
little bit of statistics
so i'm on a website called twitch
tracker over here there's another
website called sully gnome
which will give you similar information
i'm going to click on
stats overview and we're going to look
at some statistics for the twitch
website you can see here
this is from 2013 to 2020
and this is concurrent viewers on twitch
and you can see very clearly the curve here
here
and specifically april of 2020
this spiked like crazy which coincides
with kovid everyone
is stuck at home looking for something
to do it's a really good time to be a
streamer right now
as twitch has grown for viewers it's
also grown for streamers so there is a
lot of competition right now
these are average concurrent channels
from 2012 2000 concurrent channels in 2012
2012
to 83 000 concurrent channels in 2020
which just means channels live at the
same time we've gone from 300
000 broadcasters a month in 2012 to 6
million broadcasters in 2020 twitch partners
partners
3 000 in 2012 to 45 000
in 2020. even just since the start of
2020 in the aftermath of global events
you can see the amount of streamers has
dramatically spiked
competition for viewers is at an
all-time high but this is also a time
where people have more time than usual
to consume media for the viewer account
is also spiked in a similar manner
in other words this is one of the best
times to try your hand at becoming a streamer
streamer
there has never been more information
available or more viewers available
for this however because there are so
many people streaming
the recipe for success has changed
instead of streaming 40 hours plus a
week in my opinion
your time is better served by streaming
in smaller intervals while focusing the
rest of the time you would have spent streaming
streaming
on creating off-stream content building
authority on another platform gives
people more of a reason to care that
you're live in the first place
and you're also creating scarcity of
your own content driving up the need to
catch you in the moments you are live
we're going to dive into this a little
bit deeper when we talk about scheduling later
later
this website has a lot of interesting
information but you can come down here
and see
here it looks like there are the most
viewers available on saturdays but
there's also the most streamers available
available
the second most viewers available are on
sunday but we've got a drop down
in streamers so i think sundays in my opinion
opinion
right now are one of the prime days to
stream it looks like sundays and
probably like
probably like a thursday or a friday
later in the week there's more
there's there's a little bit more
viewers here towards the weekend
but there's not as many streamers yet
there's the most streamers available on
saturday so as a streamer you have the
highest competition on saturday
and then looking at games just chatting
is definitely our
most popular category right now this is
the last seven days so you can see among us
us
has been a big popping one so i would
actually not recommend either of these
two categories for a small streamer
i would recommend something down here in
this little section so like a
hearthstone dead by daylight
apex music these are categories that
have a lot of viewers but they're going
to have a little bit less
competition i still think there are
better choices we'll talk about this a
little bit later though i still think
there are better choices than picking
these really popular game categories
okay there's a lot there's a lot of
juicy information on twitch tracker so i would
would
recommend peeking at it [Music]
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so now to talk about how to be
entertaining there are strategies to
have more fulfilling streams in the
beginning even if you don't have an audience
audience
i've gone in depth on how to talk to
yourself when no one is there in another
video which will be linked below
but to summarize it you want to fill
dead space by narrating your thoughts or
your inner monologue
out loud learn to talk to yourself
whether people are responding to you in
chat or not even if you have viewers
it's not your viewers job to entertain
you it's your job to entertain them
and i think a lot of small streamers
forget that because you'll hear them
like oh chat's so dead is it what are
y'all doing
is everyone okay like they're constantly
trying to get chat to talk to them
which is good you want chad engaged but
you really just need to be able to sit
back and vibe
and let chat enjoy what you're making
here are a few quick tips to add
entertainment value to your streams
improving your improv skills which is
can boil down to stay in the moment
learn to say yes and just a quick google on
on
improv skills will help making the
audience part of the show
bringing them in work on your
storytelling skills have strong
listening skills whether that's to chat
a guest you might have on the episode or
scenes in the game
add more enthusiasm from a place of authenticity
authenticity
don't fake being funny or try to be
sarcastic if it's not what you're
naturally gifted with and i have a
recommended video here by bryant chambers
chambers
legacy that talks a lot about this get a
little more physical
talk with your hands dance on stream to
celebrate a raid here's a really good
example of a
fantastic entertainer mr chan chan
dancing doing a little helicopter dance
whenever people raid him and even ninja
is kind of well known for the pon pond dance
dance
so you can even exaggerate you don't
have to get up and show your full body
if you aren't comfortable with that but
exaggerate your body movements to tell a
story or react only go as far as you're
comfortable to
add additional camera angles or zoomed
in scenes for comedic effect or more dynamic
dynamic
video content don't take yourself too
seriously learn to laugh at yourself [Music]
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now we're going to talk about actually
gaining followers on your platform
the simple answer to gaining followers is
is
make good content and stay consistent
there's really not a formula
or a secret recipe it's literally just
make good content
stay consistent put new content out
every week that's good
people will naturally follow that good
content is an extremely subjective
statement but you should be fine-tuning
your craft constantly
every day there's something you can
improve upon whether it's upgrading your
graphics tweaking your mic settings
researching your niche for a deeper understanding
understanding
or setting up a nicer backdrop there's a
lot about understanding your identity
that will result in people following you
and sticking around for longer term
which we'll discuss a little bit later
when we get into niches
here are my five tips for gaining a
following mean what you say and say what
you mean
aka be trustworthy two don't be afraid
to open up and share your story with
your community
be raw be real be authentic three
celebrate your milestones with your community
community
this could be 200 followers 500 followers
followers
first 30 subscribers we got a new emote
just hit affiliate have fun celebrations
but don't go overboard please with the
12 and 24 hour streams
not necessary you can do you can do
something simple like we wear a mario
hat and play super mario or something
you can do something cute and simple
share your favorite stream moments on
other platforms
this goes two-fold because it's going to
be earning you clout on other platforms
like twitter or whatever
but encourage your audience to clip your
stream moments or go back at the end of
the stream and pull out a spot where you remember
remember
oh this is really funny and then share
it i forgot to mention that this also
creates fear of missing out or fomo by
your followers who weren't present
during the stream when they see these
moments it encourages them to be there
for your next streams because they're
like wow
look how much fun i missed out on
incorporate networking
into your streaming practice to help get
your name out there
raiding is what i would recommend most
if you do nothing else you don't have to
go and spend hours in other people's
streams every day
but just raiding at the end of your
streams will do miles and i can do a
whole video on rating rating etiquette
picking a good raid target etc let me
know if that's something you're
interested in [Music]
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finally we're going to be talking about
finding your niche this subject
deserves its own hour-long presentation
and there's a ton of videos available on
it but
to put it simply you're trying to create
content where you have a natural
passion and you can provide a skill set
to help you stand out to an audience
that wants
said content this sounds complicated but
it could be as simple as i've always
loved horror movies and i'm very good at
storytelling and people want to be
spooked and so you have your niche
telling spooky stories in the just cat
chatting category you look for stuff you love
love
stuff you're good at and stuff people
want and you want a
combination of the three and just to
talk more anecdotally for a second
i didn't discover my niche until i've
been experimenting with several
different stream styles and started noticing
noticing
trends and viewer count spiking with
specific content so really
you just want to buckle up for a lot of
hit and miss style experimentation in
the beginning it's best to start with
your passion and just hold steady over a
few weeks or even months
until you can really start to analyze
and notice trends and start to fine-tune
your content down into a niche
i think it probably took me a solid two
years before i understood what my niche was
was
and then another year or two on top of
that before i finally yielded
to becoming that type of content creator
twitch tutorials [Music]
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now we're going to talk about scheduling
your streams this isn't going to be a
one size fits all
but my ultimate advice here is twofold
don't overthink it
don't overdo it yes it's better practice
to have a set schedule where you're live
at the same time every week and that's
the ultimate goal
but to begin with you're really just
trying to get yourself into the habit
and rhythm of streaming
there's no sense pushing for eight to
twelve hour stream marathons in the
beginning you're gonna demoralize yourself
yourself
and burn yourself out in my opinion a
great beginner schedule
is two to three times a week two to four
hours per stream you want to give your
audience enough time to miss you
allow time to pass so that you have
stories about your life to tell them
when you come back
this also creates a scarcity around the
service or content that you're providing
so people are more likely to show up in
the windows that you do provide where
you're live this will help
boost your average viewer count if
you're live every day for eight hours a day
day
your audience may think to themselves oh
they're always online
i can miss them today and i'll catch
them tomorrow i also encourage you to
feel out your audience
if you're used to streaming two hours
but you have a crazy active community
that's really hyped up it wouldn't hurt
to add another 30 minutes or another
hour onto the end of your stream
alternatively if you normally stream two
hours and you see your chats kind of
dying about an hour and a half in
and you're starting to kind of like okay
i'm done streaming
you can just go ahead and end it an hour
and a half you don't have to hit two
hours every day or whatever
the best advice i can give you for
stream length is to go into your stream
with some kind of
goal for post stream content this will
make a stream with a dead chat not hurt
as much
because you will still hopefully have
hit your content goal and have enough
footage to convert that stream into a
twitter video or a youtube video
and use that time you spent to your
advantage by converting it to content on
other platforms that could lead to more
viewers on your next stream
a final piece for advice for deciding
when you should stream is to use a handy
site like twitch tracker like we talked
about earlier
and get a feel for when the optimum time
to stream is i can do an entire video
analyzing the data on the site let me
know if you're interested in that
and it's worth checking twitch tracker
every month or so because trends change rapidly
rapidly
okay now we're gonna talk about avoiding
burnout i am the queen of burnout so all
i can really tell you are signs to look
out for that might signify burnout is approaching
approaching
a growing cynicism or anger regarding
streaming in general
so feeling resentful of the success of
others focusing more on your failures
second where once you could laugh at a
troll it's now angering you to the point
of long-winded rants
and sweaty palms three well-meaning
community members making
jokes at your expense suddenly irritates
you or hurts your feelings
four you dread the thought of going live five
five
you keep making excuses for postponing
your streams like
i have a headache or i have to clean up
or i'm just not feeling it tonight being
a few prime examples and some of my
personal favorites
physical symptoms could be closely
related to stress symptoms headaches
stomach issues appetite changes anxiety
heart rate up
tense body general fatigue etc i'm not a
doctor though
google it yourself talk to your own
doctor what number are we on seven
seven lower performance and compensating
by pulling
longer hours or forcing yourself to
stream more
so your streams aren't as good and you
feel like you need to hang in there even longer
longer
and force let me wait for that next raid
my viewer count isn't high enough i need
to do something else and just like
really wearing yourself and dragging
yourself out eight
feeling lonely even when you're
surrounded by people and this can be a
virtual thing too
pulling up your twitter and just feeling
complete disconnect from everybody
feeling like you are looking in from the
outside and you are no longer part of
the group
nine having a hard time deciding what to
stream and you just kind of fall back on
whatever as long as i'm live or
sometimes trying to do bigger and better
streams than ever
12 hour streams or fan demanded content
that you're not really interested in doing
doing
even if you don't have the energy just
for a regular stream
i see people do this all the time when
they're like oh stream's not working for me
me
i just don't really know what i'm doing
wrong you know what i'm just going to do
a 12-hour stream tomorrow i'm just going
to grind it out we're just going to go
for it
you're already disconnected and burnt
out and unsure what you're doing in the
first place why would you put yourself
through that
torment the other thing i want to say is
burnout is going to look different for
everybody so just learn
yourself and understand what it looks
like for you when you're no longer happy
in what you're doing
the big thing about burnout is that
you're putting more energy into
something than you are receiving in
return so it's looking for a balance
the best way to avoid burnout is to
learn to recognize it and have the
strength to back off and take it slower
possibly even take a mini break and
spend some time outdoors refresh your
mind get grounded get back and you know
take it take care of the laundry you've
been ignoring [Music]
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now we're going to talk about networking
basics networking is a mixture of making
friends and making smart business moves
the advice i give my friends who are
just getting started is to spend some
time in categories they plan to stream
in and just be a viewer of that content
surf around and find streamers that you
like hanging out with follow them
chat with them without mentioning your
stream and potentially follow them on
other platforms if you enjoy their
content enough
become part of their community and
support them with no
expectations i think that it's a good
thing to shoot for making about one to
two solid networking friends a week
another major thing for networking is
rating at the very end of every stream
it doesn't matter if you have 10 viewers
or two viewers you're adding your viewer
account onto another streamers
and sharing communities i think of this
as cross-pollinating communities
it's extremely rare someone is upset by
receiving a raid
although it does happen and i recommend
that you vet streamers beforehand
just to avoid dealing with an ungrateful
streamer also remember that your
reputation is currency when it comes to
being a content creator
every reaction you have is public and
tells everyone what type of person and
creator you are
so be kind and mindful when interacting
with others
there is an unspoken twitch etiquette
that i'd like to touch on
uh and i'd like to touch on a few parts
of it there's no official streamer
etiquette anywhere it's just kind of an unspoken
unspoken
culture one don't mention you're a
streamer in another streamer's chat
unless they specifically ask this is
seen a self-promotion
most of the time it's polite to just not
mention other streamers in someone
else's channel unless it's brought up specifically
specifically
two and a lot of new streamers do this
don't call
lurkers out a lurker is someone who
shows up on your viewer list but hasn't
talked in chat yet i know it can be
tempting to have that viewer list open
and say oh hey cooldoritoman22 when you
see their name show up in the list but
unless they've
actively joined the conversation by
saying something in your chat or setting
an alert off by following
etc don't force them into conversation
it's called
calling out lurkers and it can
potentially just make them leave the
channel and i know that
when i get called out of lurk i'm like
bro i'm just trying to chill i don't
really want to talk to anybody i just
wanted to watch some content
in regards to collaborations if you're
going live with other people on your
channel if you go live with someone else
who is either playing a game with you
in a discord voice chat call with you or
is also live streaming themselves
tell them you're streaming this is just
common courtesy so they can be aware
they're being broadcasted
consent is important i hope this one
goes without saying but don't pressure
people into following you or subscribing
to you or donating to you
it's just not a good look next be
grateful for hosts
donations follows subscriptions etc
nobody wants to hear wow it took you
long enough
when they follow you or support you in
another way and i've heard that before
i've been in so much channel chatting
with them we maybe have been networking
on twitter or something and i hit follow
and the follow alert goes off and they
look like
confused and they're like you're just
now wow that took you long enough and
it's like
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now we're going to talk a little bit
about twitch chat and culture if you've
not spent a lot of time on twitch it's
important to know that twitch has a
culture all of its own
similar to how there are different
emojis on apple phones compared to
android phones
twitch has its own special set of emotes
you might want to spend some time
familiarizing yourself with twitch
global emotes such as kappa
and pogchamp poggers to understand what
they mean when they're used in your chat
kappa is typically used to signify a
sentence with sarcastic or set in a
bantering type of way
and this could lead to misunderstandings
unless you're familiar with the emotes
meanings already
there's a lot of twitch terminology to
get used to as well such as terms we've
already used like lurking rating
affiliates versus partners etc
keep your eyes out for my abcs of twitch
video that i'm hoping to release with
this series
this next section we're going to switch
back over to a screen cap and we're
going to do a really quick run through
of setting up your profile just kind of
the most important parts of this
we're looking at a brand new twitch
profile here we've gone into creator dashboard
dashboard
in the top right corner you click on
your profile creator dashboard and then
on the left hand side we come down to preferences
preferences
channel this is where you find your
stream key this is extremely important
do not share it with other people anyone
who has your stream key can broadcast to
your channel
another thing that i want to tell new
streamers about is this option here
storing your past broadcasts make sure
this is turned on
it automatically saves broadcast for up
to 14 days if you have that turned off
then when you go live
and you turn the stream off the video is
gone it doesn't save anywhere
unless you're saving it to your hard
drive so make sure this is turned on
the next thing that i think is important
is on your actual
bio page under the about section you
want to upload some panels here
you can add some widgets but the most
important ones that i think that you
should have
is a profile picture of some kind an
about section
so thank you links to your other social media
media
and a link to your paypal or donate if
you want to add that
and i'm going to show you an example of
my friend duke stamina who just got started
started
he's created these graphics himself but
you can see he's got like a little
profile picture it doesn't have to be an
actual picture of you
a little drawn picture or your branding
an about me section where he's got his
little about me a link to his youtube a
link to his spotify
a link to his donate a link to his
discord and then a couple a link to his
twitter and a couple of widgets or a widget
widget
um and this is he's also got his social
media updated and then i'll show you
mine as well
mine i focus a little bit more on
aesthetics honestly
um i've got like my profile picture up
top with my name
links to my social media to a paypal
link a link to my streamer community
that i manage
what my sub badges look like a link to
my stream gifts
and a couple of widgets links to my
instagram and credits for my graphics
okay so that's as much as i want to talk
about for the actual twitch dashboard [Music]
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this is toasty she's gonna chill for a
second i guess before we get into setting
setting
up your obs i guess i want to talk a
little bit about
hardware and equipment requirements i'm
not a tech guru
but i will say there's some you don't
have to go out and buy like a thousand
dollar setup
you could technically just stream
straight from your cell phone you would
have to be in the just chatting category
but you could technically just stream
with a cell phone if you already have a pc
pc
i see mostly recommended like computers
with i5 processors
even if you can't stream like really
high def games like the new god of war
or whatever
you could still stream lower end graphic
games like pixel graphic games or like
retro game
you don't have to be set up to stream
like these super brand new games that
are coming out
otherwise you're looking at spending
bare minimum 800 and
closer to 2000 honestly for some of
these like nice high-tech
setups if you're going the pc route i
recommend a webcam and a microphone
literally just go on amazon and type in
streamer microphone but i've been using
a blue yeti
for five years now and it it's had a
an issue here there mostly with the usb
cord but it's a mid-tier microphone
you're gonna pay around 100 to 120 for
it but i think it's a pretty good like
intro microphone but you can find
cheaper ones for like thirty to forty dollars
dollars
webcam wise i'm using a c920 logitech
c920 which is about an eighty dollar
camera last time i looked and again you
can probably find cheaper options that
are closer to the 20 to 30 dollar range
uh i recommend a microphone
a webcam and then some kind of computer
setup even if it's like a laptop or whatever
whatever
finally you could also stream straight
from your xbox or straight from your
playstation 4.
they're streaming software's built into
those gaming systems
and i think you can add webcam capture
to them so you don't have to go and
spend a million dollars to get started
you can just use what you have lying
around and see if you're even interested
in doing it long term and then start to
slowly build up
and use the streaming itself to
fundraise your growth
and your hardware upgrades [Music]
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the final section that we're going to do
is just a quick rundown of obs
i'm using my streamlabs obs to record
through so i've actually downloaded the
original obs
okay so we're looking at obs here this
is a little bit of an older version
but everything should still be the same
when you get into obs
the first thing you want to do is come
into the settings down here in the
bottom right you want to go through
every individual setting and make sure
it's fine tuned to your liking there's
plenty of tutorials to go into depth on
obs but for the sake of this i just want
to show you
where to put your stream key which is
right under here on the left hand side stream
stream
this is where you put that stream key
that we found in your twitch profile
and save that if you're finding that
you're struggling with dropped frames
while you're live streaming you may want
to come in here and mess with the video
bitrate dropping it down lower
the current bit rate that i stream on my
bitrate is 2500 here
that's where you enter your stream key
now we just want to set up a really quick
quick
overlay for you i think that bare minimum
minimum
most people have a starting soon screen
not required there's a big debate about
it do you do that by right clicking
add or you just press the plus button
down here we're gonna rename this
original scene that was up here and
we're gonna call this
chatting slash community scene where
you're like hanging out and chatting
with your community again not a required
one but these are like i feel like some
of the most common ones
we've got a gaming screen and maybe like an
an
afk brb screen and maybe
ending scene the goodbye ending scene i
don't really even use one myself because
i typically just rage straight from my
streams but that's an option
and i think these here are probably like
the main ones you want to get started
and then add and pepper in more
i'm not going to go through and set up
every single one of these here we're
just going to build a gaming scene together
together
so you've added your scene down here in
the bottom left we're going to come over
into the sources
we're going to add a new source over
here the first thing we want is the
actual game capture so you just right click
click
add or again press that plus button down
here you want a
game capture create new we're going to
call it game capture
you could create specific ones for
specific games so for the sake of this
i'm going to call this
stardew valley and we're going to click
ok now it's going to have a drop down
here at the top capture any full screen
specific window or foreground some games
are finicky and different you might have
to do
you might have to play around with
specific ones because some games won't
let you just pull the actual game i've
had it happen
especially with like ubisoft games we
are going to capture a specific window
and i'm going to come down to my stardew valley
valley
choice and we're going to click ok
and then we're going to click and drag
and just stretch this out to fit okay so
now we have our full game capture here
a lot of times people will add their
webcam okay so we're going to click and
add a video capture device
when you're looking at a webcam it is
one of the bottom options called a video
capture device this is also how you add
a capture card like an elgato we're
going to call this webcam
click okay and we're going to pick our
webcam i'm going to use my 615 my c615
for this example
click ok and now we want to put this
wherever we want it to and resize it
one little pro tip here or like hack
that i'll show you really quick is
thinking about the thumbnail
of your video and how it's going to look
so let's just really quickly come over
here to
twitch.tv we're going to look at the
stardew valley category
and take a look here what i really want
to show you is look at the thumbnails
you can see in the top left it has a red
button that says live
in the top right it has a time stamp of
how long they've been live in the bottom
left it tells you how many viewers are watching
watching
so you can see in this second example
here she's got her webcam set
right there on the left hand side so
that it's not covered by any of those stamps
stamps
the bottom right corner is a good spot
to put your camera because the twitch
doesn't add any kind of stamp on top of
it but let me show you an example
of someone who's being covered right
here you can see this person right here
their webcam is right here but it's
covered up by that
viewer mark and same here with this
example their webcam is in the top left
and it's being covered by that bright
red live so you want to try and go for
one of these spots that
one it's not covering up anything in
your gameplay and two it's not going to
be covered up by any of the twitch
ui so we're going to move our webcam
down here in the bottom right and we're
going to nestle it right in between
the toolbar and stardoo and the energy bar
bar
and now we're not being covered by
anything on twitch and we're not
covering up anything important
on our video game capture so another
thing here that i'll show you that's
just like kind of a little trick is
to make our webcam look a little bit
nicer we're going to right click on the
camera and we're going to go into filters
filters
and we're going to add a an effect
filter an image mask
blend an image mask and that's fine we
don't even have to worry about the title
for this
we're going to find an image mask and
let me show you what some of them look
like i also have a blog i'll link below
of a bunch of masks that i have
available for free download
so masks are just solid things that
tell you can say i'm using a mask right
here it's rounded it's just kind of
telling the
telling it where to crop out i don't
really know how to explain technically
why it works i just know that it works
so we're going to use let's use this
weird one that i have here
so you can really see how it works uh
you can see that it's like not working
that's because you want to drop this
down to alpha mask alpha channel instead
and now you can see it's kind of got
this cool gradient effect
and we're gonna close that you can see
me down in the bottom right corner now
i'm not
um it's not a solid circle i just think
it adds like a little something something
something
it makes it look just a little bit more
interesting up to you you don't have to
add them but it's just a little a little
hack as it were so now we have our game
capture really there's not
really much else that you need to add
like need to add besides this but a lot
of people will add their
widgets like someone just followed you
or whatever i'll show you here like in
order to add an alert when someone just
follows you
click on the plus sign here for a source
and you want an alert box
add source and that's it just click add
source and we're just going to go ahead
and click done we're not going to
customize this at all
and let's test to follow you can see
that's my little alert that i've popped up
up
you can spend all day going in and
customizing those but that's how you get
your little
alerts that's really all you need you
can also create
overlays you can see here on the game
itself like how you would kind of want
to design that
i'll make a video on how i design my
overlays if that's something you're
interested in then you just click start
streaming down here in the bottom right
corner and it should connect you right
to your channel
you can flip between these different
scenes you just made and you're set [Music]
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there's a couple of other basic tools i
would recommend i would definitely
recommend like a stream labs chat bots
or some kind of chat bot moobot nightbot
there's a lot of different options there
that's your set other than that that's
how you get you get rolling
i think that's going to wrap this up i
really hope i can edit this down to like
30 minutes
i hope this was helpful i hope it was
like quick to the point
and you got some value out of this
please let me know if there's anything
in specific you are most interested in
me going into more detail on
or elaborating on or creating special
tutorials for
and also i guess if there's anything
that you think a new streamer needs to
know in 2020 on how to get started with
their journey uh that i might have missed
missed
uh leave that as a comment below and i
guess that's gonna wrap it up for this video
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