hi guys let's learn about raffle tickets let's learn about giveaways
my name is machine dana welcome to the channel i hope you're doing really really well in this video
gonna be all about how we can set up raffles and giveaways automatically on your streamlabs online
account through twitch or through youtube gaming raffles and giveaways are a really cool way of
enhancing the engagement with your audience and of course the smooth running of those raffles can
make or break whether or not they're actually worthwhile doing for you so in this video it'll
be a short tutorial of exactly how you can set them up and how you can get the best
from the raffles or the giveaways in stream labs online they're called giveaways but it's
basically the same thing as a raffle and you can do it for merch you can do it for other
things custom things and also of course for your channel loyalty points i have done other videos
on channel and loyalty points so feel free to look in the description below at those enjoy
okay so for those of you that are unfamiliar with streamlabs obs and the way it integrates
with streamlabs online streamlabs obs is purely the streaming software that you can use from
streamlabs uh it's sort of reskinned over the top of obs it's essentially used a fork of the
obs studio software but it integrates a lot of the widgets and functions that you get from streamlabs
online sort of interwoven within the software as a result you get a pretty neat integration between
streamlabs online and streamlabs obs but you can use the functions and widgets and browser sources
and that sort of stuff from streamlabs online in other pieces of streaming software for example
pull in obs xsplit and these bots work for youtube gaming and certainly for twitch as well i'm going
to be demonstrating today on twitch so first to enable giveaways you're going to have to register
for streamlabs online and set up an account you can set your account at streamlabs.com and you can
use your twitch credentials to log into streamlabs when you get into the software you can download
the software using this icon here and the cloudbot function is what we're keen on here cloudbot
is the online chatbot tool i've used cloudbot for about six months now and i found it really really
useful what you're going to need to do is navigate to cloudbar if you can't find it in the list here
they sometimes change the navigation around just search it in the search bar or something like
that make sure that cloudbot is toggled on and don't forget to mod streamlabs in your own chat
whether that's in twitch or in youtube gaming by typing forward slash mod space streamlabs in your
chart and pressing enter that will mod cloudbot essentially to your streaming profile and from
there there's a number of different things you can look at modules i would certainly recommend
looking at all the different modules things like chat alerts media share 8 ball i've done tutorials
on all of these so feel free to browse through my playlists there's loads of different other
functions though and we're concerned today with giveaways now if you've got merch enabled on your
channel using the merch function on the left hand side here you can do automatic giveaways for merch
i'm not going to be covering merch giveaways today but you would do it through this section
here you can look at the history and the settings today we're looking at custom giveaways you can
see i've done a number of different ones raffle giveaways for loyalty points but steam vouchers
i did 100 follower giveaway and a number of others so it does show all of your previous
giveaways they sort of stay here as boiler plates or templates to be used in future a game what
we're going to do is we're going to navigate to add giveaway we'll go to custom and here's
where we do all the settings first we give a name for the giveaway one million follower giveaway
we can choose whether we want this on a timer or not uh whereby we'll have an applicable raffle
period where people can enter into it and after that period ends no one else can enter that raffle
or you can just disable it and have it live you can set the permissions for who can actually enter
the giveaways just to give you a flavor you've got subscribers subscribers and mods or everyone
and then we've got to enter a description of what the actual prize is with the maximum characters
of a hundred it's not really that many considering the size of the uh the bugs that we've got
um toy ferrari just in case anyone's expecting an actual ferrari so we've now got the description
and everything in place we're going to the advanced we can't actually hear say
they've got to be a follower to win ticket cost now this is the amount in loyalty points you can
make it completely free to enter the raffle or you can actually have it so that they deduct an amount
from their loyalty point you don't know what loyalty point system are you can see it greyed
out here but that's where you would set up the loyalty points system so you can set a price to
that i'm gonna leave it for free for now you can also say maximum picket tickets per user so if
you set a cost on this you'll be able to charge multiples of that if you put the maximum number
of tickets up you can incentivize new subscribers by giving them more than one raffle ticket entry
by clicking the one here and non-subscriber bonuses you could do a non-subscriber raffle i
mean i don't know if that really makes sense who's gonna run a raffle just for non-subscribers you're
supposed to incentivize people to pay you to watch you what i don't i don't get this i'm confused
whatever so we're gonna just go ahead and add that they don't seem very advanced those now what we're
gonna do now we can we can then start the giveaway by clicking the giveaway now that starts the timer
to count down if you've added the timer there or if you've not added a timer it will open it until
you close it you can manually close the entries early if you've got a timer or if you've not set
a timer here is where you would close the entries okay so we've got the chat open here on the right
hand side and we've got the raffle or giveaway on the left hand side from streamlabs so if we just
start the raffle again we can see the bot has come up with a command in chat a ferrari a toy ferrari
has started so uh you can customize these messages and i'll show you exactly where you can do that
later on in the video it says here use raffle to enter the raffle so i'm just gonna try that
okay so we get a message back from the cloud bot to say machine then you've received two tickets
to the active raffle i got two tickets because you automatically by default get
a tier three subscription to your own channel so i've received two tickets but if somebody was
not subscribed they would only get one ticket and we can see a confirmation of not just the number
of tickets but exactly who has joined the raffle in this left-hand side there's a total number of
users and total number of tickets sold here if i was a non-subscriber and i was to enter this
raffle it would say my name here and it would say one uh ticket allocated to them with the settings
that i provided we get the confirmation so they're pretty good if you turn them on at
this point people can join the raffle and they'll receive the number of tickets based on whether or
not they're subscribed now you can either choose to let the timer run and it will say automatically
that the raffle is closed or you can close entries manually just by clicking the close entries
we get a confirmation to say you can no longer enter the raffle now at this point we've got the
option to pick winner do we which can just select a winner by clicking winner in it we'll randomly
select from the list we've only got one in the list here so it'll be me that gets the the win
we get a confirmation within stream labs of who the winner is you also get a confirmation in the
chat as well so so machine daniel has won a ferrari a toy ferrari oh okay that's a shame
so that fundamentally is how you set up and run the actual raffle itself we're just going to
talk a little bit about customizations now to this you can also click complete which will it doesn't
actually do much it just says it's finished but it doesn't really do anything because you still
have a follower giveaway here and you can still restart this giveaway all it does is just mark
it on cloudbot as being a completed raffle you don't even get any chat confirmations because
the chat confirmation happens when you close the entries not when you complete the giveaway i don't
really know what the point in that is to be quite honest so that's running the raffle itself we're
now going to go into commands and the default commands now the default commands for raffles
are exclamation point raffle open raffle close raffle and cancel raffle and these join the
active raffle they start accepting the raffle entries they stop accepting raffle entries or
they cancel the raffle so your mods if you've chosen to allow them to have permission to do so
or yourself are able to use these commands to open raffles and cancel and close raffles so you don't
necessarily need to give access to streamlabs or to manually do this yourself but you of course do
have the option using the ui that i showed just a second ago but we can also customize these default
messages as well if we don't want it to say for instance raffle we could have it as giveaway
instead but we can also customize the response now one small tip here i've put forward slash me
in there and all that does is it codes the bot text the same color as the bot's name and that's
why this text is viewable as purple you can edit all these messages and i'll just give you a flavor
for what these are so that's the prizes started for whoever the permissions are subscribers for
example you might say use the command to enter their iphone it just pulls in the name of your
command that you've given it it also this message in particular pulls in all the the costs and stuff
like that from the loyalty you can customize all these messages i'm not going to go into them all
but it it does make a big difference i would also recommend putting some emojis in there as
well uh just just any kind of emojis i typically would use emojipedia.org but you can use whatever
and that just enhances the experience a little bit for people that are in the raffle so there
you have it that's how you set up raffles that's how to make the most of them i'm really keen to
know how you guys use this particularly if you've got any creative ideas drop them in the comments
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me out daily at twitch.tv forward slash machine dana uh yeah happy streaming guys see you later