--- title: '7 Tips for Streamers: How to Grow on Twitch with Zero Viewers in 2025' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=d97_F2H4bSo' video_id: 'd97_F2H4bSo' date: 2026-07-14 duration_sec: 629 --- # 7 Tips for Streamers: How to Grow on Twitch with Zero Viewers in 2025 > Source: [7 Tips for Streamers: How to Grow on Twitch with Zero Viewers in 2025](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d97_F2H4bSo) ## Summary This video provides seven practical tips for Twitch streamers looking to grow their channel, even when starting with zero viewers. The creator shares strategies for maintaining enthusiasm, configuring a professional channel, and leveraging external platforms to attract an audience. ### Key Points - **Manage Expectations** [00:14] — It's common to have a small audience initially. Practice as if you already have a large audience to maintain enthusiasm and professionalism. - **Disable Viewer Count** [01:06] — Hide the viewer count on Twitch and OBS to avoid discouragement and maintain consistent energy regardless of audience size. - **Professional Channel Setup** [01:45] — Configure your channel with overlays, webcam borders, and panels to look professional. Use tools like StreamElements for templates. - **Optimize Panels and Info** [03:17] — Add eye-catching titles, categories, and language settings. Use Portuguese for Brazilian audiences to rank better in search. - **Use Chat Commands** [04:47] — Set up commands like !instagram or !pc to engage viewers and provide information. Use timed messages for consistency. - **Consistency and Schedule** [05:48] — Maintain a regular streaming schedule. Inform your audience about changes to keep them engaged. - **Create Content Outside Twitch** [06:42] — Promote your Twitch channel on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok to attract followers from other platforms. - **Master OBS Studio** [07:48] — Learn OBS to avoid technical issues. The creator offers a course for advanced techniques. - **Focus on Long-Term Growth** [09:07] — Building a channel takes time. Avoid seeking quick viral success; focus on sustainable growth. ### Conclusion Growing on Twitch requires patience, professionalism, and cross-platform promotion. By implementing these tips, streamers can build a loyal audience over time. ## Transcript you can't just go live and expect everything to work out. So grow your channel with simple tips that many huge content creators Oh, but who are you to teach me the tip? I have almost 15,000 followers streaming for a long time, so I know I'm qualified to tell you how to grow online. It's important to manage your expectations and we go live, it's very common to want everyone to works. So you'll have to get used to doing live streams for a small audience you'll be doing this for a while. But that's the key point, which is practicing, doing the live stream as if you already had a large audience, because perception as if they were watching a live stream of someone who has many people watching. And yes, will change your mindset, it will change your enthusiasm so that when you have few people watching, it will be the same enthusiasm as when you have more people watching behave much better the more people join your live stream. It's very common for a bunch of people, and then there's that silly person there, not knowing what to do, without any reaction, just thinking, "Oh, so, team, what are we going to do now?" And dude, no, if you already had an audience so that people want to watch your channel and you're saying, what you're doing. And one of the best ways you can do that is by disabling two functions. The first option is to come here to Twitch, directly to channel, to your picture on the right, and click on the creator dashboard. Session," "Viewer," "Followers," " Bitrate," "Subscribers," and everything else. because it will hide the number of people watching your live stream. In OBS it your OBS when you're logged into Twitch and here in Twitch statistics, down here first option here, number of people watching your live stream, your mouse over it to view. You'll have to click for it to appear. Do your channel today, I'm sure of it. The next step is to set up your channel configured to look more professional, not just empty, amateurish stuff that doesn't attract anyone. What really matters is the even be able to find you. She needs to reach out to you so that you can then your channel. I'll be here in the GTA category real quick, just so you can see and you'll see how many people don't have any visual unit properly configured. Very few people have it, and if you notice, at least a few viewers. It may not be the best channel in the world, but it's already moved beyond here, among the people there are more viewers; they all have a the camera, here's the edge of the webcam. Up here are the little layouts for recent followers, and everything else, a goal for something, an overlay here. course, this makes a difference; it 's not by chance. And it's also much more nice and set up properly. If you don't know where to create your visual identity, dashboards, and all that, I have a place to show you that you can do it all design knowledge, with several professional templates that you can customize to your liking. description, just click on it and take a look. If you want a complete video teach you how to configure the visual energy on this site. You can see that an offline banner here, there are the panels, everything nicely configured, a bit Twitch in a long time. And these are also old live streams I did during but you can see that they all have a visual identity, there was always a lot of people watching, and it was always really fun to do live streams like that. The next tip is to configure your information panels and channel information to how I came up with the title for my channel here. The last live stream I did YouTube and Twitch, where I was analyzing channels to learn how to grow title, very eye-catching, very straight to the point. But you can do the following: I was streaming on Twitch was playing games and chatting with the audience. I always included prompts for Instagram exclamation mark, so they 'll know there's more to the silly channel. Live notification, you can post whatever you want, come chat and play with me, whatever you want. It's very important to add a category because it will ensure you're ranked in the easily found. If you're just chatting, which is the best category you do a lot of live streams here, use the " just chatting" category. If you're streaming put on FIFA if you're not playing FIFA. If you're writing COD, include the COD code, right? So this will get you noticed and will show you to more people. Here in the search results, always select Portuguese, because it may appear ranked in the Portuguese language. The language in the broadcast also includes Portuguese. It's people come with an English standard and end up ranked among foreigners, and that's not most cases you won't be able to have a conversation, and it will be awful. So, to your native-language audience, unless you want to do a live stream in content rating system where you can add labels and such. It's very , but if you don't have anything, just leave out anything that isn't needed. Done" and it will be saved. You can do this either in OBS or directly on Twitch. Just look for that transmission information tab. The next commands. He's coming here, oh, exclamation command. You can see that there's old, okay? Back when I used to do live streams, way back in the day. I'm going to put an here. Follow the father. People can go there and immediately follow me on Instagram. invite you to follow me there, because I have a question box, direct messages, and interesting to follow along. And then, of course, you can do whatever you my PC configuration, the person can see here, exclamation mark, important things about your live stream, live stream times, age, city to generate a chat, things channel, make it more professional. If you want to learn how to configure commands, And I also created a short course called Stream Elements Pro, where I'll teach you how to super affordable price, which is less than R$10 per month if you pay in installments. The link is command here that you can configure manually, there's also the messages from time to time . That's very this card for you to watch. You want to end this video, of course. It's very and consistency on your channel. There's no point in you doing live streams three opening them again. It's important that you maintain a schedule, a frequency. And if you can't your audience know so they understand its importance. Because if you don't care about your going to care too and they'll look for someone else to watch. So always make sure post, when you won't be able to go live, and always set a people can organize themselves to watch at that time 9 pm soap opera, 7 pm soap opera, 8 pm soap opera, the name itself already tells you what plans to watch the new episode. It's more or less the same thing soap opera in my life. I only saw two. That one about the maids was really watched a soap opera? Comment below with more details. I want to know, were you a soap opera fan? There are a lot of exist, right? Which is newer. Hey, here I am thinking I'm old. I'm 24 years old and I Anyway, that's it. Let's move on to the next step. And in my opinion, one of the results is to create content for outside of Twitch. Many people want to grow only creating content there, and forget that the world outside of it exists. I mean, important platforms in the world, with a lot of people and a lot of money involved. YouTube, YouTube Shot, and consequently Instagram and TikTok are money and get a lot of views, and you're leaving money on the table, that there are more people out there. If you watch my Twitch activity video here followers every day. 1 hour, 3 hours, 20 hours, yesterday, 3 days ago, live on Twitch? It's been more than two years. I opened one the last time I test something, but I never streamed there on Twitch again. And look, ? With my YouTube channel, especially this one here, Instagram, and people see that I'm also on Twitch, so they go there and follow me. And of course, back in the day, do? I didn't just make videos and not care about Twitch. I would talk within watch them. So I would always create the content during one tip or another. I Twitch on such and such a day, at such and such a time. Go watch it, I'll be waiting for you there." In the description, questions. There was the person who would go and exchange ideas. Many of the followers I had back then They hire me for consulting services, they've bought my courses, and many of them still follow me grow on Twitch, to grow on these other channels, you have to master the is mainly OBS Studio, this little program that's open right here in know how to use it, understand how each thing works, what scenes and fonts are. my Instagram direct messages, you'll see that many people want to set up channels, Many people are looking for services, consulting. Of course, I don't have time to attend to everyone. This here, you on my Instagram, okay? And because of this, people go crazy because they don't know how to know how to configure the channel to make videos, they don't know how to get their PC running some problem. So, to ensure you never have this problem again, I invite you you'll learn everything from scratch to advanced techniques for creating high-quality live streams and videos even better, without depending on anyone. You'll be independent enough to grab nicely, which I'm sure will happen when everything you've configured after hours of watching videos suddenly gets messed up, out of nowhere, you'll freak out and even is in the description, there's a discount coupon, there's also a promotion going on with this you'll be able to adjust your techniques so you can set everything up before with live streams being muted, microphones not working, microphones being quieter than the game sound, music being too loud, getting strikes for no reason—all of give you some tips to help you stay motivated, because online shopping is a medium- to long-term endeavor. Those who grow in the short term are the exception. And many people who visibility, then end up completely screwed because they don't know how to maintain it. So when you gradually build your channel, your audience, everything that will can maintain it for longer. So focus on the medium term, focus on the long quick returns. Things on the internet take time, just like anything else the right way. Of course, if you do it in a way that makes it go viral quickly, that way you grab people's attention fast, even better. But it's not always like that . Just to give you a heads-up, I started on the internet in 2021, then I stopped in 2022 and focused solely on videos. I do live streams from time to time, like the ones celebrating . I already got the plaque, but it's only going to the new studio. I'll keep this video helped you. It's always important to have that motivation, 're doing something that's not working , change it, man. You won't if you persist in making the mistake. See what 's wrong and fix it to everything I talked about in this video into practice today, because I'm sure . If you've made it this far, comment, streamer, because few people will make it to the end, and you'll be an exception, consequently giving you a better reminder to click the first link in the description to learn a little about so you can create quality content without the headache. It cost,