Twitch Streamers... Please STOP Doing This

I’m tired of seeing the same BAD advice being shared about how to grow your stream on Twitch or YouTube. In this video, I pick out 5 of the worst tips that streamers keep following and offer some better alternatives that will actually help grow your audience.

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0:00 Bad streaming advice introduction
1:18 Having a crazy streaming schedule
4:58 Making a Discord server too early
7:42 Putting your content on ALL social media platforms
10:22 Streaming just one game, with no variety
13:21 Needing the latest streaming gear

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[GamingCareers]

What bad streaming advice have you seen floating around?

[YokosoOtaku]

I love the picks. Super solid stuff. What always makes me sad though is that there's A LOT of people I know and out there in general who pick "Livestream as much as humanly possible" as the most appealing option to them. When asked about creating YT content it's the same old answers "YT is too saturated", "it's too hard to learn video editing", "I don't want to be a YouTuber I want to be a livestreamer". And I see those people spend years never reaching their goals. It's very sad.

[Koakuma]

The last one is so true. There's this one dude with a whole room committed to streaming who always recommends the most expensive stuff to new streamers on social media. But when you visit his stream, he's super silent, does not entertain and hardly has 3 viewers. Gear really is not the most important thing of streaming.

[dragonflydreamer]

Since I have chronic pain, it's really hard for me to set a streaming schedule. I appreciate the fact that you talk about the amount of hours to put into your streaming as well. Thanks for the great vid!

[nexttolegendary]

I stream 6+ hours a day to just myself every day, for the last four years. I work hard every day to make my stream entertaining. Everyone who finds my stream says I have the quality of a big streamer just without the audience. Lately I've been really down about my lack of success, I hit affiliate which is Amazing but my growth is dead.
I've dedicated years.. and it hasn't paid off. Everyone has fun when they get involved with the stream, but then they never come back. My friends won't even watch.

[Delop]

I needed this man! I was getting depressed about the time I put in streaming besides my family and job... couldn't take it anymore and the last 2 weeks were horrible on the streams... So I will take a step back and come back harder! thnxxxx

[ayashisamattv]

How did I not know about Stream Ladder ?! So helpful! I mostly stream for myself and friends but this is great to be able to share clips better ^^

[TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

You make some very good points. I'm glad you debunk the streaming for 8hs a day to an empty chat will one day pay off. It's sad to see posts like I got my first 2 views. What's the best case? 5 viewers after another few months.
It's easyer to make some fun content that can be shared online that can help feed people to your stream.

[MeowyMakes]

As for the "one game" rule... I would say stream one game *at a time*. I see plenty of people keep bouncing off games, and while variety isn't bad, there are certain games I wanna watch the streamer finish, but I can't because they keep playing other games. I watch plenty of people stream one game, and I'm SUPER intrigued to see the rest of the game, but I have to wait for SOOOO long because they keep playing other games, and I don't wanna bug them saying "When are you gonna finish playing *this game*?" Once I start streaming a game, I stick to it until I finally beat it before moving on to the next game. The only exception is that every now and then I throw in an art stream or an Among Us stream in the middle of a playthrough. You don't have to agree with me on this, but that's my personal streaming motto.

[MichaelGalli]

Awesome work! I'm glad you don't sugarcoat it. Example: Content quality over production quality. There is no shortcut for that. Recommending your video the next hundred times someone asks, "How do I grow my audience?" (Simple answer: ignore the bad advice, and listen to Pete)

[RayJonesXD]

Ayo its me at 10:00 Kappa...
Seriously this is such a great video because I've slowly been finding that what I post on one platform isnt always good for the others

[dontragequitbro]

Yet another great video! I like how you spend a duration talking about each segment going into some level of detail and not just glossing over it. You give some specific examples to try and allow the viewer to make a connection with their current practices. Also, you're AE skills are nice af. Nice editing. Nice video. Props all around

[BossManSays]

If hot tub isn't your first way to grow your stream I don't want to hear anything else you have to say. 😂

[_f_aus]

I I'm hoping to have my first official live stream this week, I had issues with streaming I had to reinstall obs, thankfully that worked, still got some lag but... can't wait to really get into streaming... I've seen multiple different advice given about streaming, pre insane really...

[haboh]

Thanks for making this video, a lot of sound advice and strategy here without all the BS you'd get elsewhere. I started streaming about 6 months ago and literally did all those bad ideas first. Recently, I switched up because I was becoming burnt out but now I feel a lot better; mind you this "switch up" with the improved tips has thrown my community off a bit BUT I'm confident it will be in a much better place for it!

Also: That part about the Discord hit me right in the gut, lol.

[Magromancer]

thanks for the advice 😊 in regards to a couple things, since starting streaming on Twitch and trying to become Affiliate I’ve always played a wide range of games that are very story driven, and have been known to let my audience make the decisions in most of those games.

my community is based on helping other streamers out as much as possible, which is why when I get my Discord up and running I’ll have an emphasis on helping out every streamer by helping them out because so many streamers I’ve raided and have check their Rules on the stream and their Discord’s have an emphasis on saying if you promote yourself I’ll ban you immediately.

I’ve seen a lot of streamers only stream a single game and refuse to play anything but that single game and somehow they get Affiliate within a couple weeks and they constantly trash talk other people in the multiplayer game and never interact with their chat, which makes me wonder just how they got Affiliate so quickly.

[thebobapapi]

Popping in the comments to say thanks - this is super helpful and I’m excited to get some good work done outside streaming. Cheers!

[Creator_Craft]

The discord skit turned me into a meerkat ffs haha!

[MuleGamingLounge]

Damn you, though I had a Discord notification on my server then LOL 6:28

[GoGoPOWERUP]

Great stuff! Always learning some new things from places like this one & the good ppl at Alpha Gaming’s channel. Very encouraging 💯🙏🏼