streaming is all about keeping your viewers glued to your channel making
sure that the proverbial conveyor belt of low quality content continues to feed
into their mouths like some sort of never-ending donut feeding machine in
the pits of hell what I need to nap so until I can nap on stream and have my
feet out on a perfectly angled camera then I'm gonna have to find a way to
keep my channel live without putting effort in so today we're talking how to start a rerun
while most people know twitch as a live and interactive
platform there are times when a rerun can be pretty appropriate and honestly
quite successful hi I'm eljayem I'm from twitch.tv/ eljayem_
as well as streamscheme.com and today we're gonna be showing you how
to set up and run a successful rerun as well as the pros and cons of doing so so
let's get into it so you're gonna need two things before you can start your
rerun the first is a vod or some uploaded content to your channel the
second thing you're gonna need is to have reached affiliate status I know I
know but before you click away because you're not an affiliate go check out the
description we do have a guide on how to reach you fill it in seven days there
are some tips and tricks to do that and because you're gonna be an affiliate in
seven days just keep watching this so you know how to do it when you're ready
okay so if you want to do a rerun on Twitch the first thing you have to do is
go to twitch.tv/eljayem_ you've got to click on
this little follow button here and then once you've done that it'll unlock the
rerun feature and then appear to the right and click on your photo what we're
gonna do it's gonna hit over to create a dashboard this will bring you to your
stream manager now when you're in your stream manager you'll have a few things
you should have your Activity Feed upstream preview for when you're live
our chat and then you'll have these buttons over here I want to focus on
these buttons now on mine you'll see I have a button here called start a rerun
now if you don't see the starter rerun button I'm gonna click this plus sign
you're going to scroll down just slightly to the grow your community
section you have to start a rerun and you can click this button here it'll say
add mine says added because obviously I already have it so once it's there
you'll click on start of rerun and you will have a rerun cue now what you can
do here is as you can see I already have stuff for my rear and cue so I'm going
to remove that if you've got anything in there make sure you remove it so it's
clean so yours will most likely look like this
nice and empty if it isn't as I said please remove stuff come up here to the
add a video section and it will show you in chronological order the latest video
you have all the way back now this means that if you wanted to you could upload a
whole series of 20 minute fully edited videos from your YouTube channel
directly to twitch and rerun as a marathon so you want to go on holiday
for a few days you could rerun all of the best hits you give them poll your
audience and ask them what they want to see on your channel but but now say you
don't have that and you just want to rerun an old stream on your night off
what you're gonna do is you're gonna come here and you're gonna see blind
playthrough or whatever yours is called you can even search so I can say breath
of the wild and it will bring up all of my breath of the wild stuff cuz I've got
a bit my title and I'm gonna say I want to click this one when I add this five
and a half hour stream cool now that would have out of it so I can come here
and I can click this little X it'll get rid of it click off now it's there
literally all I have to do now is click start a rerun
now the reason I'm not gonna click this is because I don't want to start a rerun
so we're gonna click cancel here now what's gonna happen after you hit rerun
is it is going to start transmitting the rerun to your channel this stream
preview will become the rerun preview you'll have to obviously change your
title and all your tags and what you're gonna see down here as well is I think
that says rerun in progress manage or stop if you click manage it will reopen
this window and you can add more to your rerun queue so I've only got one in
there now but say I want to add another I can just do that and I'll add it to
the next one so you can literally just have hours and hours of content playing
on your channel at all times which there are some channels such as speed running
channels will often just rerun their speedruns and stuff like that and next
to the manage button down here will also be a stop rerun now another thing I want
to show you how to do is how to create a notification in your chat that this is a
rerun now as a stream labs user I use cloud bot so I'm gonna come in here I'm
gonna come to my stream labs dashboard I'm gonna go to cloud bot I'm gonna go
to timers and you'll see that I have two things still up here I have a follow bot
and have a rerun now my follow bot is something that I always have in my
stream at all times it is a every 30 minutes it will say don't forget to
follow the channel if you're enjoying the stream it's free it really helps us
out and it won't send that message even if 30 minutes has
passed unless 10 other messages have gone through my chat which in 30 minutes
tends to always be the case but it's a good little protection in case we're
having a quiet night now for the rerun this isn't live LJ is sick so it is a
rerun points and betting are on though what this does is it lets everyone in my
chat know that this isn't live so they don't sit there and talk or get confused
to what's going on and you might think but it says rerun in the title or it
says rerun in the follow account or the view account or it says rerun on the
browse window no matter what people will still get confused and not realize it's
a rerun it's not their fault it's just about which works so mine is
currently turned off because obviously I'm not doing a rerun right now so I can
click Edit and show you this stuff but instead I'm gonna show you how to create
entirely new timer add timer now when I call this rerun lot or rear in bot now
we're gonna add our message this is a rerun LJ is nursing a hangover
don't drinkids there you go and as I said I'm gonna set my interval to 30
minutes and I'm gonna say that I want at least 5 messages to come through
potentially actually we could probably set this to be 15 because it most likely
is that the 5 messages should come through if not that's fine now once
you've done that you click Save and it'll be automatically turned on from
your timeline off quickly cuz it I want that if you want to turn things off it
is here a green means on grey means off and you're good to go now if you want to
remove a rerun bot basically this and go like that so now that's all setup over
here your rerun is running and you are good to go enjoy your night off look
after that hangover get yourself some panadol and remember that first step
head over to the channel and chocolate cheeky follow congratulations now you
know how to set up your twitch rerun now if only I get my feet cam up I would
have the perfect twitch channel so before you go anywhere let's talk the
nitty gritty and the rules behind doing a rerun
now our first point isn't really a pro or con it depends on who you are but
every single rerun will be in 720p this only really matters if you are streaming
at 1080p 60 frames such as myself but I think
most people stream at 720p and really most people watch at 720p because of
internet and just how it works so not a huge deal it really just comes down to
who you are say you want to take that five-hour wad of you doing amazing and
valid but you really just want to cut out that one game in the middle there
where it wasn't very good and you don't want you want to see how terrible your
plays were don't worry all you have to do take that wad into your video
producer highlight highlight the start highlight the end and then don't
highlight the middle part export them out of the publish parts and when you do
your rerun just queue them as I showed you you can run that queue feature which
means that it'll play the first two and a half hours and at least second two
hours and 20 minutes cutting out that round that you really don't want people
to see while reruns aren't for everyone and there are going to be some viewers
who would never watch a rerun because they're there for that interaction there
are still some good reasons to try it out so the first is re running a stream
for multiple audiences say you're going to try and hit that Australian audience
that's been following you on Twitter or YouTube or watching your vods you smack
that rerun button after you finish your stream and it starts playing a whole six
hours again there you go you've reached a new audience while they may not be
able to interact with you you have to remember that chat is active these
people can interact with each other when I did my rerun I was honestly
shocked to see how many people rocked up and hung out and talked in my stream and
used my cloud gambling features it was surreal to say and when you compare this
to a vod well why would they want to read that chat when they can make their
own chat with their friends now second point is showing a rerun of a classic
great episode on your night off because not everyone stream seven days a week
some streams are better than others they will go down in community history I
remember being there when the yogscast watched the important playlist it was
one of the funniest streams i've ever seen and i still go back and re-watch it
if you save these entire streams as big highlights you will always be able to
rerun to your community schedule it in tell your audience you're going to be
running a classic episode every saturday night and let them come and chat and use
cloud bots and do whatever they want and re-watch those memories easy as that one
of the things is you'll probably have a lot of new people who weren't
back then and you'll probably have some hardcore fans who are there saying I
remember that I was there oh my God look there's my chat on screen next point
reruns verse hosting so obviously a rerun is designed to fill the void of
going offline and making a channel empty now of course there is hosting but why
would you rerun when you could host and why would you host when you can rerun
the thing is when you host someone your channel doesn't appear in any categories
it's just a place where your followers if they go they will see that someone
else is live however a rerun does up here in a category so if you decide to
rerun that game of rim world like I did and you end up fourth in the category
because your viewers are there watching then it's worth it because you might
have someone drop by who goes it's a rerun but I'll watch it or not realize
it's rerun drop in and really enjoy the content and decide to stick around for a
live one hosting on the other hand does have its benefits obviously a rerun is
good for your channel but hosting can help you network with other streamers
and that's really important you don't grow alone if you tell someone you're
gonna host them and they decide to host you as well that's a big deal that's
opens up doors for Co streams and all sorts of things networking is crucial
and when I say Network I don't just mean sending email after email I actually
mean helping out another streamer because if you want to get somewhere and
work with people they need to see that you're there for them as well you've got
some tips about how to network we actually have another guide in the
description I know we have a lot of them Streamscheme has over 200 plus guides
guys I have to talk about them I'm sorry there's just everything over there
alright now I gotta talk about the bad things yeah you thought I already
covered the bad things too 720p no now we have to talk about the bad things
reruns are bad for your analytics I said it they're bad for your analytics if you
aren't a partnered streamer and you're working towards getting to partnered
streamer every run is a terrible idea and no I'm not kidding if you are
sitting on 70 average viewers when you're live and a bunch of that is chat
talking back and forth and you run a rerun and there's no interaction you're
going to lose viewers who aren't there that is going to enter your 30 days that
you need to hit past a partner or in 30 hours or whatever it is now and it
will impact you when I did my rerun I was an affiliate I
was nowhere near hitting a partner status so I didn't really care my
analytics did take a dive on that rerun but that was okay
these days I'm not gonna do a rerun because I'm trying to keep my analytics
really consistent and solid and above that status for when I try and go for
partner what you can do in the meantime though while you do it is save up all of
the best ones make an Excel spreadsheet or a Google Doc of the links to all of
your vods highlights everything that you really want to show to your audience and
once you hit that mark where you don't really care about a slight analytics
drop then you can just push all of it out in one big community celebration
sorry guys I'm gonna be offline for the next three days take all of this content
it'll be going for all 72 hours whatever you want to do go for it but as long as
you know where it is and know what you need to search in order to get them into
that queue you're sweet and the second big bad as I said you
will take an analytics drop and that is because streamers and viewers don't take
reruns seriously I know it's odd but some streamers and some viewers will
call reruns lazy even if it's your night off and you don't normally stream you
just write add extra content for your vids maybe you're sick and doing it
people still consider it recycling content obviously most people
aren't bothered by it if they don't want to watch it they'll just go somewhere
else but at the end of the day you have to be aware that you might get some
shitty comments about a rerun this is probably unlikely but hey we wouldn't be
doing our job if we didn't talk about it so what's the TLDR you need to be an
affiliate you need to have a vote or highlight up and running we'd recommend
waiting until you're partnered so that you can actually stay up there and
fourth make sure you schedule it and push it hard so that your audience knows
it's a rerun so you don't take an analytics tip and we will see hold on
you've got to tell them links and description to subscribe you'll get it
right one day you're new to YouTube all right bye you next time