hey everybody welcome back to the channel today i'm gonna be talking about
my experience on twitch what you can expect from your first few
weeks on the platform as well as from the basic mistakes i made and what you
can do to avoid them i'm also gonna make a separate video on
that topic but i'll at least cover it in a sort of overview way today so i
actually started streaming a couple of years ago
but around the time that i initially started streaming i didn't have any
consistent schedule i would stream a couple of days here a
couple of days there there would be months between any stream
and this stemmed from the fact that i wasn't really focused on making a
successful channel but around two months ago i knew
that i wanted to start taking streaming seriously and pursue my interest in
creating content so i finally took the leap and it was
rewarding and exciting and so much fun but i also encountered a lot of
disappointment and i wanted to talk a little bit about that in this video
and where it stemmed from first though i do want to talk about some of the
statistics as well as successes that i faced on the channel because despite the
disappointments there's a lot to look back on and
celebrate when i started streaming i started by streaming chess
it was a game that i was enamored with and i naively had these high hopes that
i could become a title player so i figured my best choice was to start
streaming it and initially within the first week or so of streaming i was
seeing probably an average viewership of anywhere from one to two viewers but
week over week until about a month in i saw these numbers grow
until i was reaching peak viewership of 15 with an average from anywhere between
four and eight now this growth is great but around that
month point i started to see the numbers plateau and the conclusion that i came
to when i finally took that step back was that i was making some critical
errors and i was approaching it fundamentally wrong
so i stopped streaming every single night and set a proper schedule
and then dedicated that extra time into venues and avenues would be more
successful something else to note is that i
eventually burnt out on playing five hours of chess every day
and when i started to try and branch out and play games like warzone and escape
from tarkov my viewership definitely took a hit and
a good chunk of the reason for this is that the viewers that i had drawn in
and my repeat viewers were here for the chess
and now that i wasn't streaming chess every day or nearly as regularly
well that audience dwindled so what exactly were the key mistakes that i was
making on the channel well most of them stemmed from the
expectations and beliefs i had about what would work and what i should be
doing on the channel first i expected far too much to be
happening in far too little time even if you take every right step along
the way the process is slow and it takes a lot of hard work along the way
next i had this belief drilled into my mind by countless successful
streamers that i needed to be streaming every
single night in order to become successful
so that's exactly what i did i was streaming for anywhere from three to
eight hours every single night of the week and this
approach does not work sure there may be some outliers out
there who stream every single night and find their audience and find success
but for the general twitch user that's not going to be the golden ticket
there are thousands of streamers out there streaming every day for countless
hours and putting in the same amount of work as you
not every single one of them is going to succeed and just doing the bare minimum
like streaming every day is not going to get you there and one of
the biggest problems with this belief is that it sets you up for failure
if you dedicate every single night and every single day to streaming you're not
leaving yourself a ton of time to focus on creating content on other platforms
or focusing on other venues to draw new viewers instead you're relying on the
slim chance that thousands of viewers or hundreds of viewers are gonna find you
on the very bottom of twitch's browse page
because that's how it's sorted right now it's sorted by viewership
so when you're starting and you've got one five ten viewers
and you're playing a game like warzone or escape from tarkov you are at the
very bottom of the list there are hundreds and thousands of
streamers that the potential viewer has to scroll through
in order to find you therein lies one of the biggest problems with the belief
and promise has been made to aspirational streamers that streaming
every day and every night is the key to success
because it's really not and finally the last mistake that i identified on my
channel was that i wanted everything to be perfect
and this is good you do want to strive to create great content and you want to
strive for an engaging experience but don't let it stop you from making
mistakes because the best lessons you're going to learn about your channel
are from making mistakes just remember to look back on them and learn from them
those were the three biggest mistakes identified on my channel but there's a
lot of other mistakes you might be making
i'm going to create a separate video about that topic and exactly what the
mistakes are and how you can avoid them for now though i'll make a couple
recommendations just start streaming even if everything isn't absolutely the
way you want it and you don't have the top-of-the-line equipment
some of the best lessons you're going to learn about your channel and the
platform as a whole are from just streaming making the
mistakes learning on the go and adapting to what
you've discovered and the last recommendation for this
video anyways is to set a proper schedule stream for
two to four days in the week and dedicate the rest of that time on
creating content elsewhere or focus on building your brand but
streaming every day and every night for countless hours on the platform
is only going to take away from that time you have to build your brand
elsewhere that is all for today i hope it provides
at least a snapshot of what you can expect on the platform
and i'll be creating some other videos about how to start streaming and the
mistakes you want to avoid when you begin
but for now i will leave you with the information that i've covered in this
video as always if you want to learn more
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until then i'll see you then