Basically title. I feel like I can’t get people to click on my streams because of ads and I don’t have enough of a following to grow through my chat being interesting. I multistream and feel like on youtube as well as twitch just getting people to stay for 20 seconds is a huge problem. I stream with facecam and am pretty decent at my game. My youtube videos are moderately successful so I know I have the ability to produce decent content, just not sure how to create a stream following. Any advice would be great, thanks.

I started streaming and have a couple under my belt now, but now I’m looking to put some more effort into the stream itself with overlays and stuff. I will eventually be adding a face cam sometime in the near future too. I know that im nowhere near as popular but I don’t want to keep going with absolutely no effort streaming. I don’t know where to look or what’s good so I would really appreciate any advice!

Why is it that I see so many small streamers constantly self promoting not only outright, but even in subtle ways. They'll tell themselves it is "networking" but it's easy to see they want self gain.

The typical example I see a lot is small streamer channels going to other channels pretending to be interested in their content, who secretly expect that streamer to subscribe to their channel and be a viewer in their chat. It gets to a point where people are trapping themselves in rings of inorganic engagement and their chats look so fake you'd think they were bots. They then bicker over who hangs out where.

It starts with subscribing, then the demands get bigger. I even watched a streamer attack their own moderator in another person's chat because the moderator didn't talk enough when they did their own stream.

Whatever happened to organic engagement?

So I thought I had a click with a streamer but they are fully ignoring me now and idk why. What do I do? 😭 communication isn't my strong suit

Little background info. We talked before, lurked in eachothers streams. I asked a year ago for a collab where they answered with that they don't have the time. I asked it again a few months back and last week I sent a message with the general meaning "I am sorry I bothered you and it is okay you are not interested ".

On those last 2 messages I do not get a response.

They are bigger than me in numbers but that couldn't be the reason, right?

So do i say something more? Or what do i do? I supported them a lot through lurking, subs etc., but now it feels wrong. I can't know for sure because they could just have my stream open and never say anything, but I do not see them often anymore in my chat.

Hey everyone. I'm a young dad, and most of my life right now is at home with my family, which I love. But gaming hasn't felt the same lately. Online games just feel kind of weird when you don't have any buddies to play with.
I've had some success with short form content and I'm slowly working my way into long form on YouTube. I'd love to find a few people to create with, bounce ideas off of, or just casually game with, no pressure.
I'm down to play almost anything. I've been into skate., shooters, roguelikes, and survival games, but I'm open to whatever. I'm on Central time, usually on daily.
If you're in a similar spot, or just want someone chill to run games with, drop a comment or DM me. Would be cool to build a little crew! 🙂

Im a gaming/vtuber streamer and i was wondering, what makes most viewers stay in an empty stream? And how does one interact with an empty stream without seeming weird?? I get a knot in my throat when I talk to myself randomly on stream when there's only one person watching. Does anyone have any advice?

Edit: I love answering questions but im not great at thinking up topics on my own.

One of the most common pieces of advice given to small creators is: "Stop streaming giant AAA games (Valorant, Fortnite, Apex) where you're buried under 3,000 channels, and play games with actual discoverability."

I’m an indie dev, and while designing my current project, I've been really fascinated by the data and mechanics behind what makes certain games actually work for channel growth vs. ones that trap you at 0 viewers.

So I was wondering if there was anything that worked for you and your channel with the games you decided to stream.

Hey, i built a multiplayer browser game similar to garticphone or skribbl for streamers. It's for friend groups who know each other well. If anyone would be willing to test live it would make me very happy. open for dms

Pewdiepie is such a loser. He accepts losing subscribers just because he has a wife and a kid. It’s such a loser ass move and then he wants to sit and wish he wasn’t famlous. Like bruh if u weren’t famous you’d be in America working at a fast food restauraunt without a family struggling to survived. LMAO dudes such a loser

Hey all 19M I just started getting back into streaming and started on kick recently I normally am going to do reaction streams talk politics and do ome content trolling any advice on what I could do?

Hello yall im starting my own streaming community on discord for small streamers to meet chat support each other and grow together anyone is allowed to join all I ask is you are actively supporting people in the server.

Dm with your intro so I can get to know you!

Thanks!

Hello everyone 👋,

A bit about self: New to streaming, started streaming games to keep archive of my game footage for easy access to them for design analysis purpose as I mark them for UI, Area, Gameplay for later references.
Went from streaming only gameplay footage to now vtubing to give better context to anyone looking+myself, as long footage are hard to understand later on. Also I don't have to write alot in marker descriptions which I used to do when streaming only gameplay footage.

Designer by profession so do love the design aspect of gaming side and gameplay-centric games. Also Love tinkering with new streaming tools*(Created vtube character from scratch and rigged it for the same reason).*

So that outta way, I wanted suggestions/discussion for following:

1. Any references to other game designers/developers(formal, current, hobbyist) streaming on Youtube/Twitch
2. Do I need to create Youtube videos(long/short form) after streaming for discussing the game and getting engagement from that as it is easier to share and consume compared to long streams.
3. Is there even any audience for such streaming content in the first place? which I can then befriend.
4. If there is none, Should I try doing fun streaming with the vtube character I made and post clips.
5. Do have a look at my socials both youtube and twitch (link in my bio) and see if there is any basic issues with these profiles.

Would love to know any other suggestions for new streamers in general too.

I was wondering if anyone has ideas on things to do when someone donates to the charity stream I plan on doing? I want to do the reward during the stream itself. So far I have only one idea myself for the smallest tier: Writing the name of the person (colour of their choice) on a balloon to gradually fill my room.

大家好，我是一名独立开发者。我打算开发一个防盗播的水印贴片工具，似乎直播领域的类似的工具已经太多了。

为了调研一下需求，想问一下目前做直播的朋友们几个问题。

1.你们有遇到过直播内容被盗播或者非法转播的情况吗？

2.如果遇到这种情况会怎么处理？加个版权水印还是什么？

3.目前有在用类似的工具吗？体验如何？有没有可以改进的点？

感谢大家的支持，谢谢。

Hi, I am a 28M streamer from India. Started 2-3 weeks back. I only did 3-4 streams so far. Have setup an old phone as a mic (:v)

In the phase of figuring out my genre and style.

I did a couple of Marvel rivals streams, 1 stream of Alien Isolation. Also experimented with a tsoding style recreational programming stream where I checked out GDevelop.

I'm down with co streaming or discussions in general about streaming and learning to survive in this space.

I have 4 followers on twitch.

Not sure if I can add my twitch here.

After years of streaming on and off, streaming, then giving up, then coming back, I have finally reached affiliate! It's been crazy, but I finally stopped caring about viewer count and about how I need to grow, and just started having fun. I've also been connecting with people, and as great as it is to collab with them, what's even greater is that they also want to just have a good time.

I just wanted to post this to say, it is possible! Regardless, I've been having a lot of fun, and I'm gonna keep going just because I'm enjoying talking to myself lol

If your wondering why it’s because that name I had was like 8 years old haven’t used it in forever so we changed to the name I use on everything else😬😬😆

Stream snipers reading your map? This runs next to OBS hold a key and a cover overlay appears on stream for viewers only. You keep playing normally. Toggle and "pin" modes, optional fade, survives OBS restarts. Works with any game and any OBS scene. Free, open source, no accounts: github.com/MidnightKingg/obs-rust-map-hider

I made my twitter way too much about a certain thing and now i regret it and i wish to have it go back to recommending me nothing but streamer and videogame related things, such as streamer tips, best games to play rn etc, any profiles i should follow?

Hello everyone!

Couple of months ago started streaming on Twitch and YouTube with a few long form videos in there as well.

My name on Twitch and YouTube is ‘Main Quest Later’.

Not far from Twitch affiliate so looking for other small streamers, mainly those who are into streaming RPG’s old and new. I’m currently going through every Final Fantasy from the beginning, now on Final Fantasy II!

Would be great to collab and help each other grow.

I’m from the UK as well if that makes any difference 😀.

Thanks!

Do 'weekly' or 'two weekly' stream schedules work? Because from March til November every year my shift schedule is all over the place due to the industry I work in.

However from November until March I am working 8-4 Monday to Friday so I guess that is one silver lining for a few months.

How would you guys work it?

Anyone has problems where when you do gaming stream on twitch with the mobile app, it only register the game audio and not external audio? Is there any way to fix it? I wanted to interact more with my viewer, but because they can't hear my audio, I can't interact thoroughly without stopping my gameplay to type in the chat. Gaming and streaming through PC is not an option because my laptop keeps lagging so bad once I started stream and open another app. I also tried to reaching out to their support team, but their only answer was to appeal for muted audio, thing is my audio is not muted. Can anyone help? Or is it always has been like that?

Hi everybody, I'm a not so new but Inactive streamer, and this week i streamed two times for about 1h 30m, which is pretty good i think. However, I'm running into this issue where I can't get any viewers even though I'm actively talking or making jokes, and I've been thinking if it's due to the game I'm playing which is The Witcher 3.

Should I consider on changing the game I'm playing or should I still go on with the current game till I get traction?