- What's up guys, welcome back once again
to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel.
My name is Pete and wouldn't you agree
that there is nothing more frustrating
than when you're a viewer to somebody else's stream,
and you decide to subscribe or you decide to donate,
and they completely miss that event happening
'cause they're not looking at their activity feed
or their Twitch chat.
- Are you pumped up?
Guys, this is what is feels like chat to donate to someone
and not have them notice it?
- It can be super disheartening.
You're very unlikely to take the same action again
and resubscribe next month.
And we're going to be talking about that from the other side,
from the streamer side, and how you as a streamer
can make sure that you're keeping on top
of your activity feed.
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Now, in countless, previous videos,
I have talked about how I recommend you set up alerts
for your stream so that when somebody subscribes,
somebody donates or even if you're a small streamer,
even when somebody follows,
some thing happens on your stream.
Maybe their name shows up and that's a really good way
to thank the viewer for taking that action,
but really what most people want
and the real interaction between you as a streamer
and then as a viewer is they want to see you react
to that good news of a subscription, a donation
or if you're a small streamer, a follow.
To be able to easily manage and react to these events
that are happening in your stream,
you really want to have a part of your streaming set up
show a list of all of the recent events.
And that's what we're going to be covering in this video.
There are three main places that provide this functionality
of being able to see a list of all of the recent events
that your viewers have taken to interact with your stream.
They are Twitch and then the two main alert providers,
Streamlabs and StreamElements.
Twitch calls it the activity feed.
Streamlabs calls it the recent events
and StreamElements similar to Twitch
also calls it the activity feed.
And it's worth mentioning if you only have one monitor,
and you can't put this information up
on a second monitor for your stream,
all three of these work on your mobile phone.
So you can just have your mobile phone propped up,
and you can still read off these activity feeds.
So all three of these providers, Twitch, Streamlabs
and StreamElements allow you to track
when somebody follows your channel.
When somebody subscribes at tier one, two or three.
When somebody donates bits,
when somebody host or when somebody raids you.
The difference between Twitch and the alert provider
Streamlabs and StreamElements is
Streamlabs and StreamElements also allowing you to track
any donations that are made to your PayPal or credit card,
and then also anything like merch purchases
or pledges on Patreon and things like that.
Those are a few extra bits of functionality
for Streamlabs and StreamElements outside of Twitch.
It's also worth mentioning that obviously Streamlabs
have their own software called Streamlabs OBS or SLOBS,
and the StreamElements have their own extension to OBS
called OBS.Live.
And both of these pieces of software allow you to have
this event list or this activity feed inside of OBS
whereas as if you're just using OBS Studio,
you'll need to open it up in a separate browser next to it.
OBS has said that they are adding this feature
into their future update so you can add any URL
and docket within OBS but for now if you wanted to use
either the Streamlabs activity feed
or the StreamElements activity feed
with just standard OBS Studio, you would need to have it
in a browser as a separate window.
No matter which of these providers you end up choosing,
they do have some standard controls
that each of them implement,
and the main one of those is filtering.
So you can actually choose
which events are shown in the activity feed.
So maybe if you're small,
you want to see all kind of activities.
When somebody follows you and when somebody donates.
When somebody subscribes.
If you're a medium or a larger streamer,
you might not want to see your follower notifications
coming up in your activity feed
because it's going to take up a lot of room
if you know hundreds or even thousands of people
are following every single stream.
They will also all allow you to pop out this
as a separate window in Google Chrome or Firefox
or Agile, whichever browser you're using.
So if you are using OBS Studio,
you can just use the little pop out feature
and you don't have the rest of the browser
or any of the tabs clogging up your view.
You can also skip any alerts
that are playing on your stream.
Obviously, if the actual alert is happening
and somebody is abusing text to speech.
You can skip the alerts.
They have the control for that in the activity feed.
And also if you miss one, you can choose to replay
the alerts using this little circle here,
and you can time that obviously with you thanking the viewer
for their interaction.
One really nice feature that Streamlabs
has that StreamElements hasn't implemented yet
is that you can click on any of the items
in the recent events lists,
and it will actually gray it out.
So you can mark any of the items that you've read already
just by clicking on them.
So sometimes, it's hard to remember exactly where you were
in your recent events
if they're coming in super quickly.
And this is a super simple way
of being able to mark the ones
that you read out loud and see the new ones
as they're going to stay white and more bold.
I really wish that StreamElements also implement this.
It's going to be a super easy feature for them to implement,
and it will certainly help
those busier streamers that are getting lots
and lots of interaction happening in a single stream.
Streamlabs also has a completely separate view
if you want to organize things a little bit differently.
This feed just allows you to separate things
like first time subscribers from resubscribers.
Donations are also separate
and then they have a whole section for other
which can be things like your followers,
merch purchases or pledges on Patreon or things like that.
This is just a completely different layout
if you prefer that.
It allows you to be able to separate things
a little bit easier.
I prefer just the straight top to bottom feed
just 'cause it makes sure I don't miss anything
but some people might want to use this instead.
If you have a Stream Deck or a Stream Deck Mini.
There are some controls for Streamlabs and StreamElements
allowing you to skip alerts, mute alerts
as well as pause alerts.
It won't really help you keep on top of your activity feed
or your recent events
but it will be easy controls allowing you to make sure
that somebody is not abusing text to speech
like I mentioned earlier.
Another little tip that I like to encourage people to do
is at the end of your stream once you've finished,
keep this activity feed open and look through some of
the events that have happened in this stream.
And maybe tweet out to thank five or six of the people
that have supported you as best as they can
in this stream.
You've got five or six people that have subscribed
or donated or even just followed your channel.
Click through to their Twitch profile.
See if they have a Twitter account links,
and if they do tag them in a tweet
and thanking them for supporting the channel in some way.
It's a really good way of building some better interaction
between you as a streamer and them as a viewer.
You're going to build a much better connection
and hopefully they're going to stop by the stream next time
and keep supporting you.
Hopefully, this has helped you better manage
the stream interactions that your viewers have.
If you have learned something new,
please do give me a thumbs up on the video.
It really helps the channel out,
and obviously, thank you to my Patreons.
These people here help support the channel
every single month and I'm really appreciative
because it allows me to do this full time,
and keep creating tutorials
for the greater Gaming Careers community, and subscribers.
I'll see you in the next video, peace.