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title: 'How to Get Out of 0 Views | How to Grow on Twitch'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=L8uSwUIc7BI'
video_id: 'L8uSwUIc7BI'
date: 2026-07-15
duration_sec: 833
---

# How to Get Out of 0 Views | How to Grow on Twitch

> Source: [How to Get Out of 0 Views | How to Grow on Twitch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=L8uSwUIc7BI)

## Summary

This video offers practical advice for new Twitch streamers looking to grow their audience from zero. The creator, Estoque, shares key strategies on quality, content, community engagement, and avoiding common pitfalls.

### Key Points

- **Minimum Quality** [02:04] — Aim for the best possible quality with the equipment you have. Use the best camera and microphone you can, and configure OBS properly for optimal stream settings.
- **Content Over Numbers** [04:02] — Focus on creating good content rather than obsessing over viewer count. Good content will naturally attract viewers.
- **Ignore Viewer Count During Stream** [04:45] — Hide the viewer count to avoid discouragement. Act as if you have a large audience to stay energetic and engaging.
- **Leverage Other Social Networks** [06:21] — Twitch alone won't bring viewers. Create content on YouTube, Instagram, or Twitter to drive traffic to your stream.
- **Find Your Unique Content** [07:41] — Identify what makes you special—your personality, hobbies, or skills—and build your content around that to stand out.
- **Engage with Your Chat** [08:56] — Read and respond to chat messages. Interaction is key, especially for smaller streams where viewers expect personal attention.
- **Avoid Early Monetization Overload** [10:07] — Don't clutter your channel with affiliate links and ads early on. Keep it clean; focus on building an audience first.
- **Participate in Other Communities** [11:57] — Be active in other streamers' chats without self-promoting. Build genuine connections; people will naturally want to check out your stream.

### Conclusion

To grow on Twitch from zero, focus on quality content, engage with viewers, leverage other social media, and participate in communities without self-promotion. Avoid early monetization and don't let low viewer numbers discourage you.

## Transcript

natural when making videos for this channel, and basically I'm trying to make it as natural as possible because I think naturalness helps people understand the message a little better, connect a little more
Today's video is to help those who are starting out, who just started, who are completely new to the subject, to put you on the right track. Some of the things I'm going to talk about today in the video are for you to carry with you forever; they are
great advice to follow, but they are extremely important in the beginning. So, for those of important in the beginning. So, for those of you who don't know me, who I do live streams every day on twitch.tv, the link is below, go ahead and
follow me on Twitch, I'll share it there, it's really cool. Let's go guys, people know me as Estoque here on the internet, and today I'm going to help here on the internet, and today I'm going to help you start the right way, start in
you start the right way, start in that cool way. Another thing, I 'm well dressed, okay? So there were comments saying, "Wow, smile, what kind of outfit is that? I can't, I'm feeling good about myself, I want to dress up."  I'm not
even a TV anchor here, from here down I'm just wearing shorts and flip-flops, from here up... you guys who are just starting out, clients, you who started doing live streams, playing your favorite games, wanting a little more in your
career, wanting to improve your performance, or wanting to be better creators? I made a list of things you need to keep in mind when you need to keep in mind when you start to break the 0.6 number and
bring those first 15 people to your streams, and I'm going to help you with exactly that. I'm going like this because the G1 house the G1 house
you need to keep in mind is that you need to have a minimum quality. I'm not saying you have to buy fantastic equipment, professional microphones. I myself don't have complete equipment. I should be
holding the microphone here precisely because I don't have the money to buy the equipment I dream of, so I'm recording on my cell phone. I have a microphone here plugged into the soundboard that I already had, so I
'm using all the equipment I have that I can today to have the best...  The best possible quality is what I advise you to have. Aim for the best quality you can get, but even at the minimum quality, for your live streams,
use the best camera you have. When you're streaming, position it at the best possible angle so it looks good. Use the microphone you have, put it as close to your mouth as
close to your mouth as
the best possible transmission quality that your internet and computer allow. And if you don't know how to configure BS, I'll leave a note here with videos I made on how to configure BS
for you. Go to this video, then open it in another tab and watch it. This will help you configure BS correctly and get the best possible quality with what you have. I didn't buy anything,
but it's the best possible quality. Another thing you need to keep in mind when you start doing live streams is that doing live streams is that your content is
much more important than your numbers. Even though we're talking about getting numbers in this video, keep this in mind: if you have
keep this in mind: if you have good content, you'll get viewers, and content is everything, not just the quality of the stream, but what you present. And there's something important: it's not just about playing the game. Keep in mind that
you need to converse, you need to speak properly, you need to have good topics, and we'll go into that in another video in the future. Wait, don't worry so much about the numbers at the beginning; you'll
get stressed. Why do I say this? Because if you have 5 people Because if you have 5 people watching you and two of them leave the live stream, you'll have lost almost half of your audience,
half of your audience, and that weighs on you during the live stream. So don't look at the number during the live stream; hide it, put a hidden ribbon if you can. Act on your live stream as if you had a large audience watching, pretend
that...  If you have an audience, and you pretend you have one, you 'll start talking more, you'll be more active, you'll want to show yourselves more active, you'll want to show yourselves more, the best version of yourselves. And
when someone joins your live stream for the first time, they'll see you talking, telling stories, and they'll stay. You have a much better chance of accumulating more people around
your community if you're experienced, alert, not necessarily discouraged. I'm excited during the live stream, there are five people watching, and half of
watching. I see that number, and then I'm more downcast, silent, and the people who come later won't stay like that;
it will get worse. So don't let the numbers get to you, love audio. I think this point I'm going to make now is the most important point for those who are starting out, and people still don't realize it. Those who do realize it are getting out
still don't realize it. Those who do realize it are getting out of zero easily. Twitch alone won't get you out of zero easily. Twitch alone won't get you out of zero, Twitch alone won't of zero, Twitch alone won't bring you there, you know? But if you're at 0.1, understand
that...  Whatever game you play, famous game, good game, new release, it does n't matter what you play on Twitter, if you have zero
Twitter, if you have zero viewers, you'll be at the viewers, you'll be at the bottom of the list. It's very difficult and almost impossible for anyone to find you, the journalist. So it's no use just
starting to stream and not doing anything different, nothing special. You need to use the algorithm of other social networks here, bring those people to
you from the beginning. So it doesn't matter, I'm not just talking about YouTube, you need to create content on another social network too. It's not enough to just
post highlights from your site. What I'm telling you is, find your own content. And we'll go to another point that plays on this: you need to know what your content is. This content that you need to
find and understand what you do that's special, what you have that's special, not just in your personality but in the things you do your personality but in the things you do as a profession, hobby, anything
you have a passion for. Find something that people will Find something that people will want to see and work hard to make that thing a success.  Entertainment, and I'm sure that if you do
this, you'll get the first viruses. This is one of the most important points, okay? And I repeat this here incessantly because it's one of the most important points for any extremist who wants to grow. Go to YouTube, go to
Instagram, go to Twitter, be active on social media. That's it. I'm leaving the best ending, so stay until the end because I'm leaving the best ending. I'm leaving the best ending. Some do this much more than others. Those who do
n't are at a disadvantage, for sure. My chat is just a chat, not everyone talks. I already told you to read the chat, just read it. Shetty, say shetty over here, just read the chat. And we shouldn't be silent in the live stream.
You read the questions well. Talk to the questions well. Talk to your boss. It's important. Many people, including myself, if I arrive in a live stream and I say hi to an extremist that
has few people watching, and I constantly enter live streams with less constantly enter live streams with less than 20 people and they don't answer me, I don't like to stay, I leave. Not that I want attention, but that's what...  The twist
is, I'm not going into a stream with 15,000 viewers, but into a stream with 20 viewers because I want extreme interaction with the streamer.
need, I'm going to look for another extreme, that's the interaction I want, and even the issue of attention—you need to give that attention, so just no chat, not even...
but really, you don't need to read aloud, but respond in the chat, respond to the jet, okay? I have two points now. One is really important, which I'll leave at the is really important, which I'll leave at the end, okay? And the other is something
that I think those who are starting out sometimes exaggerate a bit: don't try to sometimes exaggerate a bit: don't try to monetize everything on the channel at the beginning. The beginning is not the right time for you to try to monetize everything. Okay, you
can monetize from the beginning, but only monetize what's right to monetize at the beginning. There are a thousand ways to monetize. Don't create affiliate programs with all the stores and fill your panel with affiliate ads, store
this, store that, use referral numbers, a bunch of things you can put on yours. Don't do that at the beginning; you don't have a [skill/ability] yet.  A consolidated audience is key to ensuring this generates a return. You're not polluting your channel
with things you're not yet profiting from. For example, if you get affiliates, just leave a donation button and that's it, and the bits—
you don't need more than that at the beginning. You don't need to add beginning. You don't need to add quest modes, Epic Games Store, or any of those things on your side. You won't get a return initially; it won't be
get a return initially; it won't be worth it. Obviously, if you want to, you can do it; it won't hurt you, but it's a little better for your image if you don't advertise to anyone from the beginning. This is advice
advertise to anyone from the beginning. This is advice that will pay off in the future. If you grow enough, you won't have advertised to anyone from the start, so advertising your live stream will be much more valuable if you
value your commercial space beforehand. In the future, it will be worth more. Last point—this is the most important one, no, seriously, this is the most important one, and it's the most important one today, today. No, I'm not kidding,
this is the most important one— and participate in other communities on Twitter, participate in other channels, among others. In the chat, be active and talk
In the chat, be active and talk to people. Don't self-promote. If you're in another chat, the topics should be the same as those in the chat. Don't go into another chat saying "I have a channel, promote me!" because promotion
isn't the point. You'll notice I haven't said anything about promotion because it has nothing to do with it. So don't promote yourselves or talk about other sites, but rather participate in other communities. Go to other communities, be active in other
communities, participate in the games of other communities, be people that people will recognize you from the chat. After that, a good part of that other community will want to get to know you. If you
stay online, make friends, share friends on Twitter, a huge community of people, and we want to be with each other. We need to have a connection with people. So that's the magic of what you're trying to
build. You need other people to connect with people to connect with your content. So that's it, folks. I hope I've helped you. I hope this content is helping people
who are just starting out. I hope I've been eloquent and didactic enough to help you all. If you liked the content, leave a comment.  Give a like below and subscribe to the channel for more videos. Then I'll leave you with a question:
what's the biggest difficulty you're having breaking your first violins? We'll talk a little about it in the comments, and maybe that will give me ideas for new videos. I'll see you next week, bye Tuesday!
see you next week, bye Tuesday!