Topic: Building a Community on Twitch

Hi all, hope you are well??
I need some advice I have been streaming for 5months now and I enjoy it alot I have 13 followers, I have a schedule etc just can't seem to get the people to come view or follow me, I mean I will continue to carry on streaming just not the same with 1 view and nobody talks haha.

Any advice would be helpful, respect gamers 😎 ✌👍.

@Lambert311287
I think it may be a supply-demand issue. There are only so many viewers to go around and many of them are probably already watching somebody else. Ask yourself, what is it about you/your output that would convince people they should watch you instead of someone else/ what is your USP? If, as you say, you enjoy doing it and will continue regardless then maybe don't worry so much about the quantity and focus on the quality.

@Lambert311287 Hey Lambert! May I ask what games you stream? It's possible the issue may lie there.

People have to have interest in the content first, then the creator

@sorteddan your total right thanks for the feedback much appreciated, I will work on my selling USP more. maybe I'm trying to hard 🤔

@TraCuz- I stream fortnite, fifa 22, and cod vanguard. Could be that thanks

@Lambert311287 Are you in any discords with shoutout channels? You could post in those when you go live and reach some people. Try to build relationships with other smaller content creators within your space that play similar games. Ones that average 50-100 viewers, see if they have a discord and maybe they'll have a shoutout channel and you can get some discovery there.

1. Show your face - a face cam is a must if you want to establish yourself as a streamer ; the bigger streamers ( streams with atleast an average of 100- 500+ people ) can afford to do some no-cam streams . showing your face is actually a significant quality of life and essential part to streaming , it’s what makes you and your viewers interactions more authentic in real-time & the human interaction is better .

2. Be entertaining - talk to your viewers & react to the gameplay experiences . don’t make them uncomfortable though , like asking personal questions unless it gets to that point , y’know ? try to keep it focused around the game or something or let the convos gradually carry on to something else .

3. DONT PUT “TTV/YT/TWITCH” IN YOUR USERNAMES FOR ANYTHING . this is generally something only low-quality and people that aren’t good at streaming do , and people are more inclined to mock you instead of actually go and view your stream .

4. Advertise your stream through your socials

5. Set the vibe , play some music in the background but make sure it isn’t louder than the game .

6. Have a main game or main genre you play . DONT BE A VARIETY STREAMER (yet) because it’ll mess up your numbers and consistency of establishing yourself . big streamers can afford to branch off into eventually anything because they always have a dedicated following .

it takes a long time to establish yourself as a streamer , if you managed to have at least 10 people watching you then you’re already doing better than most . the average streamer i’d say streams to at least 30+ people ; once you stream to altleast a classroom of people regularly then you’re pretty much an established streamer .

Determine who your target viewer is and look up how to market to them, for example by looking what streamers who target the same demographic do. For example I'm aware that streamers who target children do things like wear funny outfits and do silly dances while they play, some streamers who target teenagers are women in skimpy clothing, I'm not aware if there are adult viewers on twitch, as I'd assume adults would just buy the game instead of watching someone else play.

Then start putting edited versions of your streams on YouTube to advertise yourself, trying to get your videos to show as suggestions from other similar streamers who put their stuff on YouTube. Mention in the videos for people to watch live on twitch for the full content plus whatever interactive experience you provide while streaming.

@Kairu why don’t you like tiktok ?

@Kairu i figured as much