I completely restarted my streaming journey from scratch at the start of 2023, I went from always having 150 average viewers, to zero viewers… but then for my first stream on a new account, new platform, and entirely new audience… I had 80 average viewers, I did this by following a simple, clear, actionable series of steps, literally, anyone can do.
If you’re starting from 0, and you have no experience, it’s kind’ve like going on a cross-country road trip, you don’t just get in the car and drive, you need to plan out where you’re going, what you’re excited to see, what music you’re listening too, and most importantly… what snacks you want to bring.
If you didn’t do any of this, you’d end up bored, aimless, and starve to death… coincidentally that is the 3 main things that happen to new streamers.
To avoid this, I created a plan, specifically a Content Map.
by that I mean, you need to understand who your audience is, what they love, and then you need to stream with the idea of making content for Tik tok, Yt shorts, instagram, full youtube videos, and any of the thousands of other platforms.
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How I Started Again From 0 Viewers 0:38 Full Animated Stream Overlays - Sponsor Segment 1:18 Why Starting Streaming Means Planning! 4:26 How To Grow Your Stream In 2023 5:50 How To Use TikTok And Shorts To Grow Your Stream 8:05 How Certain Stream Advice RUINS Your Growth! 9:30 How To Use YouTube Videos To Grow Your Stream 10:34 How Memes Can Help You Grow Your Stream! 12:36 How To Grow Your Stream Properly In 2023 14:27 How I went live to 85 average viewers on my first stream
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
