---
title: 'How to Keep Your Audience Engaged When You''re Not Live on Twitch'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=SXxQp8YmKFM'
video_id: 'SXxQp8YmKFM'
date: 2026-07-29
duration_sec: 378
---

# How to Keep Your Audience Engaged When You're Not Live on Twitch

> Source: [How to Keep Your Audience Engaged When You're Not Live on Twitch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SXxQp8YmKFM)

## Summary

This video provides practical methods for Twitch streamers to maintain audience engagement during offline periods. It covers enabling VODs, creating YouTube content, using Discord, leveraging social media, and interacting in other streamers' chats.

### Key Points

- **Enable VODs on Twitch** [00:28] — Turning on VOD storage allows viewers to watch past broadcasts. Settings vary by status: 7 days for basic, 14 for affiliates, 60 for partners or Turbo/Prime users.
- **Start a YouTube Channel** [01:24] — YouTube provides evergreen content that works without you being live. The creator has multiple channels for different niches.
- **Use Discord for Community Building** [02:47] — Discord offers features like themed channels and event hosting (e.g., movie nights, Jackbox) to keep the community active and engaged.
- **Be Active on Social Media** [03:47] — Choose a few platforms (X, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) and be consistently active rather than spreading thin across many.
- **Hang Out in Other Streamers' Channels** [04:30] — Use Twitch's insights to find community members who stream, then visit their streams to build connections and engage your own audience.
- **Take Action: Say Hi to a Community Streamer** [05:59] — Find a streamer in your community (using dashboard tools) and say hi in their chat at least once to strengthen relationships.

### Conclusion

By implementing these strategies—VODs, YouTube, Discord, social media, and community engagement—you can keep your Twitch audience engaged even when you're not live.

## Transcript

you're offline when you're not streaming you don't want people to forget about you in this video we're going to talk about ways to keep your audience a gaze with your content even when you're not streaming this video is part of a series
on how to become a successful twitch streamer this is how to become a successful streamer where I help you reach your full potential enjoy the
so I would appreciate if you guys buy my stream smarter no harder merch available in multiple colors on the website tree. TV yeah that's your website cool right the first thing I want you to do is turn on your vs on Twitch this way people can
watch back your streams but also if they don't know if they're going to like your content they have a way of knowing if they like your content because they can watch some streams that you already broadcasted way of doing this is going
to your Crea a dashboard settings stream and here a v settings that say store past broadcast and click this button on automatically save broadcast for up to seven days for Affiliates this is 14 days and if you
are a twitch partner it's 60 days but also if you have twitch turbo or if you have twitch prime it is 60 days so this is an extra benefit for people that have twitch turbo and twitch Prime which is very very nice if you ask me this is one
of the reasons why I have twitch Prime another way to engage with your audience when you're not live is having a YouTube channel because YouTube videos will be there even if you're not there you guys are watching this video even though I'm
not recording this live I'm not explaining this live to you so you can just do this whatever and I don't have to be there every time explaining to you how everything works you guys can just watch my tutorials I'll be there I do
have multiple YouTube channels myself which one of them is obviously my YouTube channel about streamer support I do have one with Age of Empires videos so what I do here is I post Age of Empires
videos where I cast Age of Empires videos and I recently started like Rec recently started to have a cozy gaming channel as well and that channel is called cozy gaming videos I haven't really talked about it yet so nobody
knows that it exists I haven't even subscribed to it with my other channel so we have two subscribers one of them just found me through my travelous rest videos and one of them is Tom thank you Tom some just happen to always find me
friend that finds me every time I do something new he immediately sees it and jumps on it and subscribes that's the best friend you can have guys but if you do like cozy gaming videos subscribe to my cozy gaming channel it's called Coy
Below in the description because that's a lot easier for you you don't have to search it another good way to keep in touch with your community is Discord I happen to have a Discord server of mine as well look at does good
about anything anything you like for example the food corner is one of our favorite places because we just love food memes is something that comes back a lot and there's also a tree meme Channel where there's just memes about
me people usually make screenshots of my stream where I look weird and they post it in the tree meme Channel what you can also do is you can host Community nights Discord has this option to host events and you can say hey this night we're all
going to watch a movie but you can also say we're all going to do jackbox or we all going to do golf with your friends or anything like that and you can host a community night come together with everybody in the community or anybody
that wants to be there at least and that way you keep your community really lifely another way to keep in touch with your community is social media I'm on so many social media I'm on X which forly called Twitter um YouTube is also kind
of a social media isn't it but I'm not going to count that Instagram Tik Tok going to count that Instagram Tik Tok I'm on trats Blue Sky Hive mcadon Facebook I usually leave my tags underneath here in a video so you can
find my socials but if you start out and you are not on that many socials that's okay choose a couple and be so active on those because it's better to be active on a couple than just have a wasteland of social media that you you never
actually look on because that why do you have them anyway then and another important thing is to hang out in other streams of where your community members are if you are in your creative dashboard and you go down here you can
see insights for you and says your community and it basically says these people are subscribed to me and now I can find hey silverlink right here is subscribed to me and silverlink has 1.2k followers and nobody gets 1.2k followers
without being a streamer that would be weird so silverlink I know silverlink is a streamer but we can already know silverlink is a streamer here we see your viewers also watch and then we can see freshly Dan
freshly then has raided us before a we through everyone has raided us before meaning we could give some love back or we can hang out in the streams say hello and some of our viewers might be present at that time we can have a connection
with our own viewers by being in those streams or having a connection with our own viewer for example silverlink is one of our viewers as well because they're the streamer themselves by hanging out in their stream being active in a
streamer that is part of our own Community as well something actionable for this video will then be to find somebody in your community that is a streamer and say hi in the Stream once at least once because now you you know a
tool where you can find out who is a streamer so go say hi to somebody that is a streamer in your community that has watched you before in the next video in twitch streamer we're going to take a look at how to improve your channel
looks so hop into that video with me and I'll see you there