What's up guys, welcome back once again to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel,
where we aim to teach you everything that you need to know about
live-streaming and about content creation within the gaming niche. In
today's video we're gonna be talking about how to add a nifty little stream
schedule plug-in into your Twitch page. So this module is going to show not only
your schedule and what it looks like for the coming week, but also it's going to
convert that schedule into the viewers local timezone and it's going to show a
countdown to your next stream! Sound good? Let's dive in!
Just before we jump into
the software, I want to quickly mention a few people have reached out to me and
said that they haven't received my latest video in their subscription boxes,
and I know that this is a problem all around YouTube and really the only way
to guarantee that you're going to get my new videos, is to head to my channel and
click the Bell notification icon. Of course other advice I would give is to
follow me on Twitter and my Discord, because I always post my new videos on
there, but unfortunately it just seems that you need to take these extra steps on
YouTube at the moment to be able to guarantee that you've seen my latest
videos. Right with that out of the way, I think it's worth just briefly talking
about why having a schedule is such an important part of growing your audience
as a streamer and you've probably heard this advice all over the internet, but
having a regular and consistent schedule is going to be one of the most important
factors in growing your stream. If you look around at Twitch and you look at
some of the big streamers, you'll notice that every single one of them has some
sort of schedule that they try their best to keep. And that is because you
need to be letting your audience know exactly when they can expect to watch
you and what day and what time you're going to be online. If people stumble
across your stream and they like what they see, but you have no consistency in
your schedule, you probably just lost yourself a potential regular viewer for
your stream, since the next day at the same time when the same viewer is back
on Twitch wanting something to watch, you aren't streaming. I'm not saying here
that you need to be streaming 14 hours a day, 7 days a week because
I know that's not realistic. If you can set some sort of schedule that you
advertise on your Twitch page, and even if it's just a couple of hours
a night and maybe a couple of nights a week, that is going to massively
increase your chances of building a regular audience. So enough chitchat,
how do we get this sweet looking panel configured and embedded onto our Twitch
channel page. First things first, head over to the Twitch website and log in.
Hit the little drop-down up here and head across to your dashboard. Next on
the left hand side, we're going to click on extensions and we want to search for
the extension here by typing in 'schedule'. This should hopefully filter the results
and you should be able to see this extension called 'Streamlabs stream
schedule and countdown'. If we click on details we should get a
brief description as well as a screen shot of that extension, so if it looks
something like this you've found the right one and you can click install now.
You should get a pop-up saying that the extension was successfully installed but
it needs to be configured and activated before it will actually display in your
panels on your channel. So let's click configure and set up the options. The
first thing that we get to configure is the color of the highlighted text. So
this is the color of the countdown text as well as the scheduled text in the
panel. Now hopefully if you've been following some of my other videos you
have heard me recommend that you need to try and brand as much of your channel as
consistently as possible, so things like color scheme, fonts, all those kind of
things, you want them to be as consistent as possible. So here I would
definitely be using the color that makes the most sense for you and your brand.
For me this is going to be the red that I use in all of my avatars and channel
banners and I can just paste in the hexadecimal value here. Next we will add
our scheduled start times for each of the days of the week. I'd recommend
adding your regular schedule that you can commit to in here, so for example
let's say that my schedule is that I start streaming at 4:00 p.m. in my local
time from Tuesday to Friday and maybe at 11:00 a.m. on a Saturday. I'm going to
uncheck Sunday and Monday since in this made-up example, I don't stream on those
days. Next we have an option to set a stream break, so this is useful for
holidays or other times that you're not going to be able to be keeping to your
schedule. So when this is checked, your viewers will just see no upcoming
streams in the panel instead of your schedule. You can also set an end date
and time here for when you are back from your break and you are ready to
re-enable the schedule. Finally, we have the option to set our local time zone.
So this is needed so that the extension can then convert your times to the other
time zones for your viewers. So the cool thing about this extension is that you
enter the streaming times in your own local time but the extension will then
convert the time to your viewers based on what their computer clock is
displaying. So if somebody from the other side of the world is a fan of your
stream and they're watching at 7:00 a.m. in their local time, the schedule will
show all of the starting times that you set in their local time to them. So for
me I'm based in London England so I'm going to find that option and click save
settings. Once the settings are saved we can click the little back arrow to go
back to our extensions page and we should see the Streamlabs schedule and
countdown extension installed here over on the left. All that's left to do now is
to activate it by clicking the activate drop-down and then set it to be used as
an extension panel or if you haven't got any setup yet, you can just add a new one.
If everything has worked correctly you should see a pop-up saying that the
extension is now active, so if you head over to our channel page we should see
our newly configured stream schedule with a countdown to the next stream. This
will now display to all of your viewers, so if they come to your stream page when
you're not streaming they're going to see this schedule as well as a countdown
to your next stream. If you are live when they arrive at your page the schedule
will still show but it will also show that you are currently live and it won't
be showing a countdown. Hopefully now you have followed this quick example and you
have a stream schedule embedded into your Twitch page and I promise that if
you follow the schedule and keep to it as much as you can as well as following
a lot of the other tips that we share on this channel, you should see your stream
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