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title: '5 Tips to Help You Grow on Twitch'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=86y2QSnE520'
video_id: '86y2QSnE520'
date: 2026-07-14
duration_sec: 773
---

# 5 Tips to Help You Grow on Twitch

> Source: [5 Tips to Help You Grow on Twitch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=86y2QSnE520)

## Summary

This video presents five practical tips for growing a Twitch channel, especially for new streamers aiming to reach affiliate status. The tips cover tag selection, optimal streaming times, raid reciprocity, scheduling consistency, and social media engagement.

### Key Points

- **Use the Right Tags** [00:44] — Use the 'Portuguese' tag to target Brazilian audiences, 'Conversation' tag for small channels playing retro games to encourage chat, 'Co-op' tag to attract viewers wanting to play together, and 'AMA' tag for Q&A sessions.
- **Find Best Streaming Times with Twitch Strike** [04:41] — Use twitchstrike.com to see viewer counts and peak times for specific games. Choose either high-traffic times or low-competition slots to maximize visibility.
- **Use Stream Holics for Raids** [07:12] — The Stream Holics extension helps you raid other streamers. Raiding can lead to reciprocal raids, bringing new viewers to your channel.
- **Maintain a Consistent Schedule** [08:54] — Set a fixed schedule (e.g., 4 hours, twice a week) and stick to it. Consistency builds audience trust and engagement.
- **Leverage Social Media** [10:20] — Use social media (Instagram, Twitter) to communicate schedule changes and maintain audience connection during breaks.

### Conclusion

Implementing these five tips—strategic tags, optimal timing, raids, consistent scheduling, and social media—can significantly boost channel growth and viewer retention on Twitch.

## Transcript

Twitch, whether it's to get new subscribers, more watch time, and so on. In today's video, I want to show you five tips that helped me a lot to grow on Twitch
and even get affiliate marketing. Some are tips that some of my friends taught me and others I ended up learning while doing some live streams. Okay, and I know that some of these tips will end up helping you at least
grow your audience and get that coveted affiliate marketing for those of you who are starting out. Okay, so let's go. [Music]
give you is precisely about tags. But wait, I know many people have already talked about tags. But there's something very important: something very important: which tags will be best for your
channel to stand out a little more or even be found by the audience that wants to find your content? We have this website, twitch.tv, which brings you all the tags. The tags I usually
recommend are the Portuguese tag, which will bring in the Brazilian audience if you don't use it.
In Portuguese, Twitch will probably end up recommending you even to foreign channels from other countries, so I highly recommend you put this tag here in Portuguese because it will at least niche down
Portuguese because it will at least niche down Twitch searches a little. In this case, people looking for content will end up narrowing down the audience and recommending your channel and your live streams to the
Brazilian audience. So this will end up helping with your promotion. Okay, this is precisely for channels that are also starting out. the control, will put the conversation tag here because,
as you can see, this one is for broadcasts and content with a conversational atmosphere or vibe. And precisely, this conversation tag helps a lot for small channels, especially for those who play retro games or games that aren't new
releases, because the people who click on your live stream to watch you want to talk to you. So they will always be sending messages in the chat, exchanging ideas with you, and the game
that's happening is kind of a background thing for them, not as important as your attention and your conversation.  And this "conversation" tag shows that you're open to chatting with
Another interesting one, which I really like, is the cooperative mode. A great tip on Twitch is that if you play
cooperatively, especially with your subscribers, you'll attract more people. For example, if you're going to play GTA, FIFA, Brawlhalla, or
any game you specifically want to play cooperatively with other people, you could even create some rooms. Many people look for streamers on Twitch specifically to play cooperative games. And guess
what the most sought-after cooperative games are? The smaller ones, because they can play a match with the streamer and their game is recorded. So many people are looking for this type of content. This
is really cool, and I know it will help you. If you choose a cooperative game, play with the people who join you, and always joke around, join you, and always joke around,
lot of people to your live streams. This will help you, okay? And also, the last part here is to use this other tag here, this one...  Here, for broadcasts focused on answering viewer questions, an abbreviation means "
ask me anything." This is also a complement to conversation, okay? You'll be talking to people during your broadcast. This especially to have a closer connection with your audience. And
you also use the Ctrl+F command on this page and search for all the tags that are classified according to your content. You can add the tag that is appropriate for your live stream, but the ones
I mentioned earlier will help you a lot. Okay, now let's move on to the next tip. The next tip, The next tip, guys, is this Twitch strike.com
website. It shows you the best times to have better content in your live streams, whether it's games, chat, or anything else you're playing. For example, if I take the game God of War from
2018, it shows the number of viewers it has now and, especially, the number of people watching throughout the week or month. This will also give you a good... have
a good day.  Here, so you can see what the best times are, and especially here, scrolling down the page a bit, this is quite important because it shows the peak times for broadcasts. You can see
here that normally a game, or some very popular game, is usually watched more or less from 5 pm until 5 am, depending on whether it's a weekend or a weekday.
You can even use this as a guide if, for example, you have a reasonable audience; you can choose a time that has a higher peak of people who like to follow this content at those times. Or you can use a
reverse strategy; you can pick a time that isn't watched as much, that doesn't have so many people, especially doing live streams. And then you choose a time that, for example, you take
Tuesday at noon, which is totally the opposite; there aren't is totally the opposite; there aren't many people doing live streams at that time, but as you can see, normally on Tuesdays there's even a
reasonable number of people. So you're kind of going against the grain of some of the big ones and some of the smaller ones that always end up looking for the best time, or they end up...  Looking for a time slot when there's nobody around, but there
end up being many competing streamers, so this is a way for you to get around that. There's a large number of people looking for content, and there aren't many streamers creating content at that moment. So
you kind of catch off guard and end up getting a little bit of attention over time. Okay, this is really great. The next tip, which helped me a lot, is this extension called
Stream Holics. The Rolex Spin is a way for you to give rides to some people and still receive rides back from other content creators. Their rule here is quite interesting: Where you
're doing your live stream, there are one, two, or three people, you're going to finish your live stream, you do a live stream for another content creator here on Rolex. It has a little portal for you to access and choose another
content creator. You do your live stream, you give a ride to another person, and other people will do a ride back to you. So imagine here, you do your live stream, there are two or three people, you're going to finish, then you come to
this page here and choose a person.  So, to make your "raid" a hit, you go there, you do it for this guy here, there's a person, and after a while, usually some of these people end up reciprocating the "raid" you did for
them. So, in this way, you're helping other people who are doing their live streams, and sometimes they help you back. I know that normally when you make a "raid" for someone,
many people who were watching you end up not watching the other person, and vice versa. But sometimes it ends up generating one or two people who end up liking your content, and as we here with small channels, each person who ends up liking your
content and ends up subscribing and engaging makes a difference in the end. So this is an exception that helps a lot, especially those who are starting out. Okay, and now, this last
tip is more of a conversation for you to understand something that is important. There are at least three points here that are very important: frequency. But even gave you some tools to choose the best time
for you to do your live streams, but it's also important to set a fixed time for you to do your live streams so that people will always know the time you're going to do them.  The live stream will start, people will start watching you, following along, exchanging ideas with
you, and most importantly, you'll have a general idea of ​​when you can end your live stream, which This is also very important: having a schedule. At least have a specific time for your live stream, at least four hours,
satisfied. And most importantly, keep your schedule consistent. For example, you'll do it twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, always do it on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
and don't miss a day. Because this can really lead to stop doing live streams. I say this because I've stopped several times, and
watching other people's live streams. So much so that when you start again, you'll be starting from scratch because Twitch works mainly through engagement. And here's another little
tip at the end: also work on social media also work on social media because there will be days and times when you wo n't be able to.  So, let's imagine you do live streams on Tuesdays and
Thursdays, but then that week something happens – you have an accident and can't participate. If you don't have your audience following you on social media, you can bet that even if you don't have people following you, they won't know what
happened, and many end up leaving to follow other streamers. Now, if you engage your audience and get them to follow you, especially on Instagram or Twitter, you end up
can also end up feeding that social network and at least making people wait for you a little longer than if you didn't say anything and simply disappeared. This is also very important. There are
many people who end up having something happen – an something else – and can't do a live stream or two, and end up having
problems with engagement. So, always work with social media; this will help you, especially to retain that audience, because people will leave if you don't say anything.
As you can see, these are five very important tips. I have some monetized content, who already have affiliate programs, and they manage to earn some income affiliate programs, and they manage to earn some income precisely by doing live streams.  And these tips
here are very important, especially for you to gain a new audience and also retain that new audience, so it's quite important, okay? And here 's the thing, folks, if you have any ideas or think differently from the tips
leave them in the comments and let's exchange ideas. Maybe I can make a part 2 bringing new content to help you get new subscribers and also improve your Twitch streams, okay? I
know all these tips here can help you a lot, okay? And obviously, if you've watched the video this far, please leave your like at the end of this video to give me that support and help me bring more
tips like this, and also, obviously, subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any other tips, okay? Thank you for your attention and the time you spent here with me, and until the next video, folks, thanks and bye!