Numbers say you have viewers, but your chat is a ghost town.
How do you get those ghosts to come out and chat and make the stream
more lively?
I'm gonna give you four easy chat strategies to make your chat more
lively today.
So you know what?
Let's get to it.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
It's always a mystery why chat is so quiet when you actually have
viewers.
A healthy chat can actually attract more viewers.
When people have fun and they feel like they're part of the stream,
well then they bring friends too.
This helps you grow and also make streaming a lot more fun.
Now, there are ways to get those lurkers to open up and become active.
The first strategy is the most obvious.
Usually what I'll do is I'll ask where everyone's from.
Inevitably someone will chime in with their location and then you just
ask some follow up questions.
Something like, oh, I've been there I love, and some restaurant or
something.
Or, oh man, I'll bet it's cold there today.
This is a great way to make a connection with that individual and
encourage others to speak up too.
Live streams are all about connections, and the more you encourage it,
the more chat's gonna roll.
Now the second strategy works well because of psychology.
People want share their experiences to folks that have a similar
experience so they can share that connection.
So this one works like this.
No one ever seems to be able to find me here on YouTube or Twitch or
wherever.
How'd you find the stream?
Most viewers are streamers themselves, or at least they understand the
problem of finding viewers or other good streams.
Someone will almost always tell you how they found you, but also then
share their thoughts on how difficult it is to find streams or to find
an audience.
Again, something in common and a connection point.
The third strategy is to relate to their expertise.
Whatever game you're playing or a problem you're having people
watching it also play or may have the same problem.
Questions about strategy for a certain task or part of the game always
brings out the resident expert, or at least someone who thinks they
are.
Now they're watching you play the game for a reason.
This one helps you kind of find the reasons why people in your
audience are actually watching you, and it's a great way to get the
chat talking.
Now, the single best strategy for getting the best out of your chat is
having a great moderator.
The right moderator welcomes everyone in the chat and strikes up a
conversation using the same four tips we already talked about.
They get the conversation started and keep it rolling while you can
focus on being entertaining on the stream.
Just the act of welcoming in each viewer is contagious.
You're gonna find that the chat is gonna actually start to follow suit
and welcome each viewer as well.
Before long you have the most welcoming stream on earth, and people
just like to belong to that sort of thing.
And finding the right mod isn't always easy.
You need someone who knows the game you play or the subject that
you're talking about pretty well, and also has kind of a sense of
humor to them.
And of course, they have to be trustworthy.
The right mod understands your chat rules and knows how to enforce
them without being a tyrant.
So everyone is open and free to have fun.
That is really what live streaming is all about.
It can really take time to find the perfect mod to really bring out
those chats, but when you do, it's gonna transform things for your
stream.
So when you find one, be sure to treat them right, take care of them,
and they're gonna welcome people into the chat.
Keep the conversation going and take care of you.
Incidentally, if you watch a lot of streams and you're interested in
knowing what it takes to be a moderator, well you just got the list of
criteria.
If you can be that kind of person for some streamer, well then you're
gonna be the perfect person for them to make the moderator so that you
can encourage conversation and discussion in their live stream.
And if you wanna learn more about how to grow your audience on your
live stream, you should check this video out.
And if you're always looking for tools, tips, and tricks that can help
make you a better live streamer or YouTuber, subscribe to the channel.
My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.