whether you're just starting out as a streamer or if you've been doing it for a long time it
doesn't matter sometimes it's good to take a step back and just look at all the advice
that's out there so i started doing an faq document of all the things i get asked the most
and now it's turned into this video 62 ish tips
hopefully about streaming and content creation that you can use to grow let's get into it
hey there i'm Eljay from streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at twitch.tv/eljayem_
links to both those in the description seriously check them out and as i said today we're going to
be smashing through around 62 tips on streaming and content creation now i've split these up into
categories and added time codes in the description so there's a particular category you're interested
in you can skip straight to that and take a look at it but i have a small challenge for us as a
community i want you to go down to the comment section and i want you to comment a tip of your
own for content creation and for streaming while you're down there you might see something that you
haven't heard before or something that you don't know that could help you out or your comment could
help others out as well so chuck a tip down in the comments and then let's get into it our first
section is general tips for streaming first up it's important to enjoy yourself your chat will
reflect you if you are sad angry or upset then they will not be into it so make sure you enjoy
yourself in everything you're doing the second tip is game selection now a lot of you guys are
streaming in categories where you just won't get discovered whether it's because it's oversaturated
or because it's completely dead you need to find that middle ground on game selection i
have a video that covers it entirely third tip is to schedule schedule schedule you need to schedule
out your stream and stick to it consistently if you throw in random days or you miss days
it is gonna hurt your growth in the long term fourth with that being said though do not stream
every single day there are better things to do with your time you can stream for three days and
then spend the rest of it working on your content or building up your social platforms fifth tip do
not do giveaways especially while you're growing people will only come to your stream for the sake
of the giveaway they will not come back for you seriously it may be a good way to get followers
and stuff like that but it will not build a community building a community around giveaways
will hurt you in the long run plan out your stream roughly decide how long you're going to
spend doing each thing come out with content ideas and bits that you can do throughout your stream
to keep yourself from having to improv everything and entertain your chat better seventh tip do not
stream for money because money honestly is just something that will not come through your stream
until you are much bigger when you're just starting out it is inconsistent if not just
non-existent so don't stream for money stream for a passion that is deeper than money my eighth tip
is to watch your vods back seriously sit down and try and watch your bod is this something you would
actually watch if not why is it putting you off and how can you solve this problem or fix this
problem my ninth tip when you're just starting out you don't have mods so get a cloud bot or a
different moderation bot to make sure that nothing bad happens in your chat tip number 10 use smart
goals goals that you can achieve and every time you achieve one of these goals it gets you closer
to a big overall goal if you aren't an affiliate yet you shouldn't even be thinking about making
it to partner instead you'd be thinking about how to get to 15 viewers 20 viewers 30 viewers
set up small smart achievable goals that allow you to grow over time my next tip is to create
engaging and clickable titles for your streams something you probably don't know unless you've
watched my video about how to create titles for your stream is that only 36 characters
will actually appear under your thumbnail after that it all gets cut off and they won't see
anything else so use those 36 characters to make someone click your stream tip number 12 is in the
same vein as your titles make sure you're using your tags tag selectors are fantastic for letting
people find you easily you can use things like playing with viewers and honestly people do use
these they use them to filter them down and find creators they can enjoy number 13 is create good
clickable go lives none of this just hey i'm live seriously write something engaging will we defeat
this boss tonight have that pop up on someone's phone and they will click it and drop by seriously
good go lives tip number 14 get better twitch tv seriously it gives you 15 shared emotes you can
use and 15 of your own emotes so if you're not an affiliate or if you are an affiliate it'll
give you a whole slew of things you can use for your remotes until you get partner number 15 get
yourself a nice overlay preferably animated but if your computer can't run it just something that
looks good and brings your branding all together seriously it takes you a long way to looking more
professional number 16 get good music for your stream preferably dmca free stuff but essentially
get music that adds to it don't just get betting now what i call betting is something we use back
in the film days it was just music that stayed underneath something it didn't add any emotion
get good music that makes people hyped get music that makes people feel a challenge coming on
seriously get good music for your stream there's a lot of royalty free stuff out
there a video coming soon on it number 17 you need to learn to understand dmca's dmca's
aren't something that twitch has caused dmca's are caused by people using copyrighted music
and record labels coming after them youtube has dealt with the exact same thing and these days
youtube is just as harsh if you upload videos and get three copyright strikes on youtube
they delete your account understanding dmca is important stop blaming twitch it is a global
problem number 18 find your unique voice stop emulating giant streamers i don't understand why
i see so many people cosplaying as dr disrespect on twitch you aren't dr disrespect you are you be
yourself seriously you will have a much better and easier time to grow if you're just being yourself
number 19 stop watching giant streamers at all now i don't actually mean at all i just mean why would
you watch someone who's not going to interact with chat or you can't learn from you may as well
watch some of those 25 50 100 average viewers and you can actually learn from them you can
learn how to interact you can see where they're at and prepare yourself to grow to that stage
the next section is all about community building so let's get into these tips the next tip is a
question i get asked constantly how do you keep your viewers coming back lj honestly it's just
by engaging with them i talk to them i get to know them i build a community and that way i give them
time to get invested into me and the community then they will come back even if i switch games
tip 21 and also because they all join our discord and the discord is a place where they can hang out
together and no matter what they get a go live notification because every stream i tell them in
the discord that i'm live get discord tip 22 is also to do community nights nights where you as
a community hang out play games together whether it's on stream or just in the discord place them
among us play some jackpots seriously it's a great way to connect people and break out of people who
only return for just one game and instead return for the community tip number 23 don't just ban the
bad vibes because one bad person can ruin your chat and make people not want to come back but
also gift subs to the good vibes to the people who are there who can't afford a sub for themselves
but bring good feelings to the chat who are nice people gift them a sub so that it makes them stick
around seriously it's a great tactic if you can afford it obviously get rid of the donation button
donations do nothing to build your community gifting subs however does and getting bits does as
well seriously if someone gifts a sub to someone else that person is more likely to come back
especially with the state of ads are in twitch right now not just that but if three people each
drop 100 bits it creates a hype train and hype trains will put you on the front page of twitch
while it is running which is huge advertising for you while that hype train is up you will be there
and you will have so many extra eyes on you it's super important number 25 don't get bogged down
on the analytics just focused on improving your content with good content those analytics will
grow obviously you can use go live analytics and things like that to see what we're bad go lives
and how to be better but don't aggressively focus on them and get analysis paralysis
number 26 if you're follow for following that's not building a community that's just giving you
fake numbers follow follow does nothing for your community because these people aren't going to
come watch you and let's be real you aren't going to go watch them don't follow for follow number 27
keep yourself talking no matter what because if someone drops into your chat you can instantly
convert them into a community member as long as you're active and engaging to them number 28 is
to set up twitch emotes twitch badges and channel points and all those things if you're an affiliate
setting these things up and basing them around your community and trying to make them unique to
your community will go a long way to make people feel like they're a part of something special
number 29 speaking of special set up special subscriber roles on your discord i have a video
on that it's linked in the cards it goes a long way to make people have a little special place
to hang out number 30 when it comes to community building it means you have to be consistent in
the type of content you create in the same way you have to be consistent in your schedule you
have to be playing the same types of games talking and making the same types of jokes
if one day you're playing call of duty war zone and then the next you're playing stardew valley
obviously the viewers from one won't convert to the other easily and vice versa try and
stick to your content and your niche number 31 be active in your discord if you have a community be
active while you're offline talk to them joke about them talk about books whatever it is they
like seriously be active when you're offline it'll make them feel like they want to come back
number 32 create a community name that the community can get behind we're called the royals
on my stream because we have crowns for our sub badges and roy el you know so it's royals don't
worry they love it but get something for yourself essentially people like to rally behind they like
to have a label attached to them and number 33 our final one of community building treat people
like people not a view count not a chatter they're a person treat them like a person seriously
treat them like a person please please our third section is all about tech tip 34 is to learn
about audio i have a video covering everything you need to know so you should check that out
but essentially your mic should be aiming to hit yellow anything lower and it's going
to be too quiet anything higher it's going to be risk peaking then your game audio and
the things below that should be just a little bit lower at the start of the yellow or in the
green seriously it's really important to learn all this stuff but i have a video covering all of it
tip 35 is to learn about audio filters these are also covered in that video but essentially get a
limiter get noise suppression and get a noise gate these three things are super important to add and
they're in obs and slobs number 36 is xlr versus usb microphones when you're starting out you don't
need to get a fancy microphone you can just get a usb one and it'll be just as good in the future
sure xlr is great but for now you don't need one you can just go with usb i swear it's fine
number 37 though is if you do get a microphone make sure you talk into the right side of it
there are a couple pretty embarrassing streams there for me at the start
i'll admit it number 38 is green screen screen screens aren't the ability to remove what's behind
you they're the ability to put something behind you don't just be lazy and hide everything behind
you you can make really interesting scenes where you're at a desk or maybe you're in a milk aisle
or something like that seriously check it out green screen can take your content to a whole
new level just with a little bit of effort number 39 when you're running obs or slobs you should run
them as an administrator it actually just gives it a little bit more headroom a little bit more
of a boost in performance it's something that everyone should be doing no matter what run
it as administrator they'll go a long way number 40 you can use a webcam as long as you have good
lighting i use a c922 pro but the lighting is what makes it look like a dslr number 41 is actually i
will add to that you do need to manually set your webcam up in your settings and if you want you can
apply a custom lut as well by going to filters lut and adding a lot you don't have any luts
i'll do a whole video on that coming soon number 42 get a good webcam frame seriously it's not just
what you look like it's what your background looks like if there's dirty washing if there's a shelf
full of crap make it look good make it look clean make it look presentable it's really important
number 43 and this is the final one of tech it's the most important one but you need to
research what your settings and your tech does yourself you can't go off what someone says to
you you guys comment constantly ask me to tell you what are the best settings are for obs and slobs
i don't know your computer i don't know your hardware i don't know the headroom that your
cpu has you need to research and look into these things and understand what they are yourself
because anyone who tells you that these are the best settings to use
i'm sorry but they don't know what the best settings you can use are because your computer
might not be able to handle it at all so we have a few more sections still coming up such
as how to engage viewers properly and my favorite youtube content but before we get into that i'll
throw it out there if this video has helped you out at all consider checking out my other content
where i go much more in detail and in depth on all these topics i've talked about seriously and
then if those help you out consider subscribing it really means a lot to us and we've got plenty
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tip on this video we get like 300 to 400 sometimes 500 comments on these videos and i reply to every
single one so if every single person who watches this does actually write a comment or a tip below
i will have a lot of work to do but everyone will have a great resource of advice and tips
they can walk away with so on to our next section engagement so first up in the engagement section
i really recommend you get a bot like cloudbot that comes with something like loyalty points
especially if you're not an affiliate yet these loyalty points can be used to gamble heist or
even trade in for rewards seriously it is a great alternative to channel points and
it is a great way to keep people engaged in your chat if someone is in your checks they
want to heist or slots or gamble or earn points it means that when you want to ask
a question or you want chat engagement they're already there and it's easy for them to do it
it just keeps them more engaged number 45 a lot of people say that channel points don't matter
these people are either too big for channel points to help or they're not using them properly there
are really great ways to engage your audience and give them a say about the stream that isn't
intrusive uh if you use channel points stuff like putting on an accent or redeeming that you have
to tell them a funny story about a certain topic it actually gives you content ideas seriously use
your channel points properly number 46 if you want to keep engagements be excited for new followers
every time i get a new follower i am very excited because in reality i am i'm trying to hit 5 000
but when i am excited and thankful i always see four or five more followers come in the amount
of times i've started the follower train just by being like hey bootyman 69 thank you so much
for that follow that means a lot you're our 486th follower and i really it really means a lot to me
man and then four or five more come in seriously be thankful for your followers and you'll get way
more of them number 47 chat to every single person who comes into your stream ask them where they're
from what time it is for them what their favorite food is do they like the game that you're playing
right now have they played it before seriously engage every person on an individual level it's
super important number 48 create a question of the day command meaning that there's a question there
that someone can trigger or just have it say it in your chat or in your title so when someone joins
they have something that they can instantly get involved in make it relatable and something that
anyone can you know understand especially if you make the question today something really relatable
like what's better pancakes or waffles everyone has an opinion easy to get involved it's a great
way to get chat engaged and talking on different topics number 49 make yourself some custom
stream labels and custom alerts they're really really easy to make these days there's tutorials
everywhere on them and people really like it i use jump scares when i play horror games and i
i swear people love dropping bits just to trigger a scream or something like that to freak me out
number 50 if you want to keep chat engaged then you need to create a narrative around your stream
and around your story maybe you're exploring a new map on a game or maybe you're just generally
telling the story of playing a game for the first time really line up that narrative really line up
that story set stakes will we beat this next dark souls boss i don't know what do you guys think
get people engaged in the narrative and the adventure you're going on number 51 use call to
actions maybe you need a bot that every 30 minutes says in chat hey if you're enjoying the stream
maybe consider following it's free and it really helps us out that's what i do and it seems to work
really well number 52 find a way to incorporate your viewers into your game for example if you
can name pokemon after a viewer that's absolutely a great idea maybe you can name another hero or
let them decide on which character you're going to play or which build you're going to go
get them involved it'll keep them engaged and number 53 for engagement is to play party games
like garcic words on stream jack box and all these things things where they're involved and they're
active in chat seriously these are great ways to keep people talking our next section is all
about youtube which is my favorite topic i love youtube content so kicking it straight off with
number 54 stop doing montages compilations clips and cut downs of your vods unless you
have a following already people aren't going to want to see these they aren't searching for your
let's play and even if they do search for a let's play you're not what's going to come up you need
to create searchable content because youtube is a search engine which means you're trying to solve
problems or answer questions which leads us to 55 research your content using tools like vid iq
it goes a long way to understand what people are searching for number 56 when you're just starting
out script your content or at least plan your content to some degree it'll stop you from getting
lost or having dead air this video is seriously just a bunch of dot points and i hate this i can't
stand it i'm really struggling by scripting and planning your content it'll give you more time to
come up with funny ideas or just ideas that will engage your community engage your comments better
number 57 understand that what used to work doesn't work anymore the big guys have a monopoly
on youtube and the small guys have to work a whole lot damn harder than the big guys did you can't
upload sub-par content anymore to youtube and get discovered you have to put in the time and the
effort to make it as good as it possibly can be you just can't get discovered the way they did 58
use call to actions but this time it's in youtube for example if i were to say to you guys hey
consider subscribing if this video helped you out at all that would be a call to action but it
wouldn't be pushy don't get pushy with it people don't have to do anything that i want to do number
59 if you are getting less than 100 comments on each video you should be replying to every single
one seriously we get like 200 or 300 on our videos these days and i still reply to every single one
people are being kind enough to engage with you reply to them get involved with your community
that's not good if they just comments that sat there without a reply
even the negative ones talk to them find out why they didn't like the video
unless they're just trolls don't just delete them number sixty watch my entire
how to start a youtube channel and grow from zero to a thousand video
i'm not biased i just really like that video it's good next section is all about networking
i'm going to smash this nice and quick tip number 61 is that networking is all about
bringing value you need to understand what value you have to bring to these people and what value
they have for you if you reach out to someone six times your size and asked to do a collaboration
you don't bring much value to them you get a lot of value out of that so understanding your value
and doing everything you can to improve the value that you bring to someone else will go
a long way to collaborating number 62 is to join helpful networks and communities to collaborate
do not join places that do fully follow if you see go lives these places are just bogged down
with people who don't have any value to you join communities where it's entirely about helping each
other and growing together it's the best way to move forward if you're looking to network
number 63 stop self-promoting even subtly if you join someone else's chat talk for two seconds
and then say anyway i gotta head off now i'm gonna start streaming i'm actually streaming
this game today everyone knows what's happening seriously stop stealth promoting all you're gonna
do is get yourself banned from other chat or frustrate other streamers and my final tip if
you've stuck around i believe that is 64 tips that i've done not 63 is stop making excuses and just
start making actual steps to achieve what you want to achieve because honestly with hard work
anyone can do this that's been my 64 tips guys i hope it helped you out i'll see you next week