Twitch is still by far the leading champion of live streaming content. They have over 9 million active streamers on their platform, and nearly 140 million people tune in to watch these streamers every single month. In 2020, these viewers consumed almost 19 billion hours. While these stats are impressive, it also highlights just how competitive the market can be if you want to be a successful Twitch streamer.
Here are seven tips to getting started on Twitch:
Identify Your Ultimate Goals and Niche
What are you trying to accomplish from live streaming? Break it down into smaller goals for each live stream you produce. Always keep in mind how you can use the live stream content for later too.
Start with Good Audio
If you start with a webcam, you need to have perfect audio to communicate with your audience. If they can’t hear you, they won’t find you as a good source of entertainment. Of course, the content you share has to be great, but you make the difference and why people want to watch live content.
Be Entertaining and Engaging
Your audience is there for you to provide something to them, not the other way around. This means you will need to learn how to talk to yourself. Improve skills such as audience involvement, storytelling, strong listening skills, enthusiasm with authenticity, getting physical, using your body, using multiple cameras, laughing at yourself, and not being too serious.
Set Up Your Creator Dashboard and Profile
Completely fill in your profile and be aware of all the settings and tools available to you in the creator dashboard.
Open a Twitter Account
Twitter is essential if you want to be a Twitch streamer. Most of those who use this platform use Twitter as their source of news, information, and notifications. Be sure to post before, during, and after your stream and whenever possible to further connect to your audience.
Use the Chat Bot Features
Twitch has “chat bots” that help monitor your chat to prevent any malicious links or communication. It also helps further engage and interact with your audience if, at some point, you are too busy or get a lot of viewers. Over time, you can also assign real people to be “moderators” to do this job and send or share more information with them.
Network With Hosting and Raiding
Twitch’s hosting and raiding features allow smaller channels to grow by sending their audience to another live streamer. When you end your stream, use it. Over time, other streamers will host or raid you to further grow your community.
Be sure to ask your audience what kind of content they enjoy the most and stick to a consistent schedule to further improve your chances of success. Just because the platform is competitive does not mean you can’t become a streamer. In fact, it is the perfect time as Twitch continues to improve its platform and double its audience year after year.
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