--- title: 'How to Start Streaming and Make Money' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=keq5a89knnU' video_id: 'keq5a89knnU' date: 2026-07-20 duration_sec: 323 channel: 'Gorod Rabot' --- # How to Start Streaming and Make Money > Source: [How to Start Streaming and Make Money](https://youtube.com/watch?v=keq5a89knnU) ## Summary This video provides a beginner-friendly guide to starting a streaming career, covering the essential equipment, content strategies, and income potential. It emphasizes that success requires patience and genuine engagement with the audience, rather than expecting overnight fame. ### Key Points - **Patience is Key** [00:03] — Becoming a top streamer takes time—months or even years—and requires consistent effort and investment. - **Essential Equipment** [00:16] — To start streaming, you need a computer, a microphone, a webcam, and engaging content. - **Entertainment is Crucial** [00:31] — Streaming is a show; streamers must entertain through appearance, humor, or gameplay. Content should match personal style. - **Game Selection** [01:03] — Beginners should start with hyped games like Dota, CS, Hearthstone, or Fortnite. Experienced streamers can mix in indie games or horror walkthroughs. - **Beyond Gaming** [01:32] — Streaming isn't limited to games—talk shows, travel vlogs, drawing, and ASMR are popular alternatives. - **Personal Experience** [02:19] — The speaker tried streaming with basic equipment and earned 2,000 rubles in two weeks, showing that even beginners can make money. - **Income from Donations** [02:53] — Donations are the main income source. Beginners earn around 50,000 rubles on average, popular streamers up to 200,000, and top earners can make 2 million rubles in a good month. - **Big Donors** [03:37] — Large donations often come from wealthy individuals, such as Arab sheikhs, who may donate 100,000 to 500,000 rubles at once. - **Promotion via Clips** [03:55] — Creating funny clips and submitting them to popular compilation channels can help promote your stream. - **Hosting for Growth** [04:10] — Collaborating with other streamers through hosting (broadcasting each other's streams) can circulate viewers and grow both channels. ### Conclusion Starting a streaming career requires patience, the right equipment, and engaging content. While income varies widely, dedication and audience interaction can lead to substantial earnings over time. ## Transcript n't expect to become a top streamer in a month, or even six months, or even a year. Only a even six months, or even a year. Only a hype, but that doesn't mean all the other streamers make a lot of money if you invest in it. If you love playing games, if you talk to the audience, then you can start earning enough to easily make a living. To start streaming, you need a computer, a microphone, a webcam, and content. Streaming is a kind of show, so a streamer must somehow entertain the audience. Some use their appearance, some use funny humor, some play funny games. It's just a matter of personal preference. The content depends on your appearance. What you play and how you comment on it on streams. It's best to start with some hyped games, for example, Dota, CS, Hearthstone. Fortnite is also popular now. More Fortnite is also popular now. More experienced streamers can dilute their broadcasts with some indie games or horror walkthroughs. This is a must-see. What your audience loves now, many streamers are generally audience loves now, many streamers are generally switching from hyped games to completely unknown ones. For example, relatively recently, all streamers played Goat simulators and it was very trashy. The most true game that was ever played on streams is a cookie simulator. You just need to click the mouse and you can buy trillions of cookies to bake or bake all sorts of stoves. In general, it is not necessary that streamers play games, it's just a stereotype. There are streamers who talk, for example, they share their stories, what happened at school today. There are streamers who travel and record everything that happens around them on their travel camera. There are streamers who draw. ASMR streamers have now become especially popular and they really got colossal views. ASMR is when you have a microphone next to you and you whisper into it. you have a microphone next to you and you whisper into it. experience. Streamer Sva, it's true. It wasn't the most successful experience. But still, it was a year ago. I was very bored then, I decided What the hell, how am I any worse? I took the worst webcam I had at home, bought myself a microphone, not the worst, but not the best either, set up a broadcast, and I spent 2 weeks doing just that, but I didn't know how to stream at all. I just showed other people how I play what I like. And they donated 2,000 rubles in 2 weeks. The main income for streamers is donations, and people send donations to streamers. And thus, streamers can earn a lot of money. In general, the maximum income for streamers is on average somewhere around 50,000, but this is, on average, the most beginners and the oldest. And if you take a higher level, popular streamers earn an average of 200,000 rubles. But if the month turns out to be really good, then streamers can earn up to 2 million, that is, the amounts are simply colossal, and there are actually very few streamers who earn that much because people who They donate huge amounts of money, there are n't many of them either, mostly they're Arab sheikhs or just very rich Arab sheikhs or just very rich people, and they can donate 100,000 to 500,000 to someone at a time, and there are people, and they can donate 100,000 to 500,000 to someone at a time, and there are funny cuts from popular streamers. But if you have any funny jokes, you can write to the creator of these channels by email and offer your finished cut, and if they like it, they can post it. This is a great way to promote your channel. You can also promote yourself with the help of hosts. How do you do this? You negotiate with another streamer, say, with the same number of subscribers as you, so that when you stream and he doesn't, your stream is broadcast on his channel within the platform, and vice versa. When you don't stream and he streams his, the stream will be broadcast on your platform, and there will be a kind of circulation of viewers. Well, yeah, like, some go there, others go there, and in general, there's a circulation of viewers in nature. Follow the links in the description. For those who want to learn more about how a Streamer makes money, follow the link below to read the article, and also like and subscribe to the channel. Bye-bye, everyone. See you soon.