So picking the right platform when you're just getting started
as a streamer, it's important.
As it really determines what pace you grow and what kind of success
you create for yourself and with all the tools now available, even as a
console streamer, you now have access to stream to more than just Twitch.
Should you choose?
So, so before we dive in, let me know in the comments, if you stream the directly
from your console, or if you're using a streaming PC, as this is going to
help me tailor my videos in the future.
So let's go ahead and kick off.
Twitch.
Right.
What are the good things about it?
What are the bad things about it?
And should you stream on it?
Right.
So when you look at the good things about it, Twitch has been the old G right.
They understand what it is to go ahead and create engagement, to get people, to spend
money, to be able to have your views.
I feel like they're part of your tribe, but the only issue is that growing
that community is the challenge.
Why?
Because if you're a new streamer and you're coming on to Twitch and you have
zero audience, zero presence, you're going to be streaming to zero to one
viewers for a long time, especially if you don't know how to create content
that brings people to your stream.
So that's the aha moment.
It's not the best platform for a new streamer, because you're not
going to see the growth at the rate that you ultimately want to achieve.
So is it a platform that I recommend for new streamers?
No.
Does it have some benefits and positives that ultimately are
great if you do have an audience?
Yes.
Like I have an audience.
If I decide to stream on Twitch.
I can have a group of people that come from my YouTube channel from my
social media to Twitch, that gives me a boost in the ranking, allow me to
be able to attract new viewers that are already on the Twitch platform.
But if that's not the position you're in, it's not the platform you
should go ahead and get started with.
Then we'll look at Facebook, right?
What are the goods and the bads.
And should you be streaming on Facebook as a new streamer?
Well, Facebook has a lot more features for building community.
It allows you to be able to stream on it.
Create content, build a group and engage with other streamers, engage
with other family members and friends.
The only downfall from Facebook is the fact of the experience
that you have on there.
Right?
It's not really built for a gaming community, even though
they have a gaming sector, right?
You have a lot of friends and family on there, which you
may not want to interact with.
There's just a lot of things that come in with Facebook, where it's also a
platform where you typically have.
Hey, it's a plate, right?
So if you know how to spend money and you know how to run advertisement
and you know how to go ahead and create content on Facebook and create
that engagement, then it could be a platform that could work for you.
But again, is it a platform that I would recommend for new streamers?
No.
Now we look at YouTube, right?
When you look at YouTube, what is it that YouTube offers that the
other platforms don't offer, right?
And it's the opportunity to be able to have your content
be found today, tomorrow.
The next day, next year.
So it gives you the opportunity to be able to continue to be found right
now you say, well, Curry, I can make content on YouTube and stream on Twitch.
Yes, that is right.
But think about this, right?
If you build an audience on YouTube, you think that they
want to move over to Facebook.
You think they want to move over to a Twitch, right?
People want to stay on the platform that they spend the most time on.
So if I'm someone that watches content on YouTube and then you
stream on YouTube, guess what happens?
I'm more likely to go ahead and not only subscribe to your channel.
China notification on what you're going to see more growth.
Right?
So as a new streamer where I recommend, even though it's the most challenging,
it's the most challenging at all, three, from setup to distribution, to just
creating content, to understand the platform by far the most difficult one.
Right.
But who said the streaming journey was a overnight success, right?
This is a long-term journey.
So if I'm talking, talking about the long term and where are you
gonna see the most rewards and where are you going to develop them?
Gills.
They're not only are going to help you income wise, but also in building
a community and understanding what it takes to actually build the
stream business is YouTube, right?
Because ultimately what happens is you're going to be live
streaming on YouTube, right?
And then you take that content.
You can put it on your channel.
People are able to continue to watch it, get to you to get found.
You can break up those clips, put them on six off, put them on
Instagram, put them on Snapchat.
It just gives you more availability and more opportunities.
And you ultimately have on Twitch or Facebook.
Now you may say you're Curry.
I'm a console streamer, but that's solely fine.
I have a video showing you how to go ahead and stream to YouTube