--- title: '30 Best Tips for Streamers: How to Grow, Engage, and Earn' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=89BIEKxDnWo' video_id: '89BIEKxDnWo' date: 2026-07-12 duration_sec: 781 --- # 30 Best Tips for Streamers: How to Grow, Engage, and Earn > Source: [30 Best Tips for Streamers: How to Grow, Engage, and Earn](https://youtube.com/watch?v=89BIEKxDnWo) ## Summary This video offers 30 essential tips for aspiring streamers, covering everything from content creation and platform choice to viewer interaction and monetization. The creator emphasizes that streaming success requires proactive content creation, not just going live and hoping for viewers. ### Key Points - **Create Content Before Streaming** [00:01] — The most important tip: create content before going live. No platform is obligated to recommend you; making people find you live is your job. - **Prioritize Microphone and Lighting** [01:13] — Invest in a good microphone (recommends Elgato Wave 1) and lighting before a webcam. Good lighting is more important than an expensive camera. - **Best Streaming Platforms** [01:53] — Order from worst to best: Facebook, TikTok, Kick, YouTube, Twitch. Twitch is best for streaming features; YouTube is better for everything else. - **Engage with Your Chat** [02:20] — Smaller streamers have an advantage because viewers want attention. Be attentive to chat and treat viewers as you'd like to be treated. - **Start Streams Quickly** [02:51] — Don't wait more than a minute to start talking. Start streaming only when you're ready to engage. - **Short Streams for Affiliate** [03:05] — To get Twitch affiliate quickly, start with short streams to maintain average viewership. Also, chat before playing. - **Play Games You Enjoy** [03:50] — Stream games you genuinely enjoy; viewers can tell when you're playing out of obligation. Avoid highly competitive games that hinder chat interaction. - **Give Reasons to Subscribe/Donate** [04:30] — Make it worthwhile for viewers. Don't just ask for donations; provide value and reasons to support. - **Record Content While Streaming** [05:11] — If you have no audience, record content during streams to have a purpose and avoid feeling bad about low viewership. - **Don't Rely Solely on Streaming Income** [05:43] — Treat streaming as extra income to reduce pressure. Focus on what actually pays (e.g., YouTube) first. - **Limit Streams and Duration** [06:55] — If not earning, do 1-2 streams per week, max 2 hours. Every day spent streaming instead of creating content delays success. - **Fixed Schedule Early On** [07:11] — Have a fixed schedule so followers know when to find you live. Once established, you can vary it. - **Create Original Content, Not Just Clips** [07:40] — Focus on original content; use highlights as extra, not main content. Use Nexus Clips to auto-find best moments. - **Streaming Alone vs. With Friends** [08:30] — If you need friends to stream, it may not be for you. Viewers feel excluded when streamer is in voice chat with others. - **Use Music to Fill Gaps** [09:15] — Music helps fill awkward silences. Use copyright-free music (link to creator's record label provided). - **Keep Overlay Simple** [09:56] — Simple overlays are better. Too many animations distract from the streamer. Find overlays at OW3D with discount code. - **Raid Bigger Streamers** [10:37] — Raid streamers with 50-100 viewers to get noticed; they may return the favor. Avoid follow-for-follow. - **Use Twitter to Network** [11:48] — Famous streamers post events on Twitter; smaller streamers may get invited. A viral clip can boost success. - **No Age Limit, Focus on Maturity** [12:21] — Anyone can stream regardless of age, but maturity is key. Expect both supportive and annoying people. ### Conclusion Streaming success requires proactive content creation, genuine engagement, and smart use of tools. Focus on building a community rather than chasing numbers, and treat streaming as a supplement to other income sources. ## Transcript 30 best tips for streamers: what to play live, how to get more viewers, how to get people to donate, and a bunch of other things so that streaming isn't just a hobby. Hey guys, how are you? For those who don't know me, I 'm Yayas, and we're going to start this video with the most important tip of all: create content. This is the most important thing of all. You need to create content before going live. Believe me, no streaming platform is obligated to recommend you. Making people find you live is your job, and if all you do is go live and see if anyone tunes in, then don't be surprised if you never get an audience. Nobody will watch your first streams, and that's normal. People aren't paying attention to you all the time, so do n't think that because you had a bad day on stream, all your effort was for nothing. There are two factors that influence and that you can't control for people to watch your streams: prioritize creating content before streaming. I mean, if you have very little time available to stream or create available to stream or create content, It's better to create future content; this will ensure more viewers on all your live streams. Prioritize a good microphone before a webcam or camera. For me, the best microphone option for streamers, and one that's worth every penny, is the Elgato Wave 1. for as little as $; it's just a matter of keeping an eye on it. I also recommend prioritizing good lighting before spending all your money on a good camera. A good camera without light looks horrible. For me, the best streaming platform is the one where you feel comfortable and your you feel comfortable and your viewers feel comfortable watching you, not necessarily the most popular. But for me, this is the order from worst to best worst to best streaming platform: Facebook, TikTok, Kick, YouTube, and Twitch. Yes, for me, Twitch is still the best because of all the features it has, but only for streaming. For everything else, YouTube is better in every way. Many people who watch live content prefer to watch smaller streamers because of the amount of attention they receive. So take advantage of this and try to be very attentive with your chat. I'm not saying your stream should be entirely based on reading the chat, but do make them feel like they're part of your live stream. Try to Treat your viewers the way you'd like to be treated. You attract what you attract. Don't take more than a minute to start your streams. I mean, don't start streaming and then wait 10, 15, or 20 minutes before you start talking. You 're not Justin Bieber, you have to wait that long, bro. Please don't waste your community's time or anyone else's. You're going to start streaming because you're ready. If you want to get affiliate status quickly on Twitch, I recommend that you start with short streams so you can maintain an average viewership more easily. Also, if you create content, this recommend that you don't start your stream and immediately start playing. First, chat, read the chat, talk for a while, interact with your followers, and then start playing. As I said before, many prefer to watch smaller streamers because of the attention they can receive, since when they watch the very famous ones, they know they won't get any attention. So take advantage of what you have, unlike the famous ones. I advise you to play games you enjoy, not games you don't play because you like them. Live streaming is much more noticeable when someone enjoys what they're playing compared to when they're playing out of obligation. In my opinion, I don't recommend streaming highly competitive games that don't allow for interaction with the chat. I've seen many people stream very competitive games and lose viewers because they forget they're live; they're so focused on playing that they forget to read the chat or thank people for donations. I mean, if you're a professional player, a truly professional streamer, or a player you usually watch because they're very good at a particular game, then there's no problem. But if you just think you're good and stream while you play, you should focus on building your community if you want more people to subscribe to your channel or receive more donations. Make it worthwhile for the viewer. I don't doubt that many people will donate simply out of kindness, but believe me when I say that most people always want something in return. So think carefully about why people should subscribe to your channel or why they should donate. Don't just ask for it. Give them reasons to do so. If you do n't have an audience yet, but for some strange reason you're desperate to start streaming... But you also know that no one is going to watch you, but you still want to stream. I recommend that you record content while you're live. I mean, have a purpose when you start your stream, whether it's recording something for a future video or something like that. That way, you won't feel bad if no one watches, because I totally understand how that feels. This way, for me, it won't matter if no one watched your stream because you were able to work on your content and also get that itch to stream off your chest. A content and also get that itch to stream off your chest. A help you a lot in the future, is not to try to live solely off streams. I advise you to try to make streaming simply an extra source of income, whether you earn a good amount or not. Please don't rely solely on YouTube, Facebook, etc., and let your streams simply be an extra to everything you're already generating. This will take a lot of pressure off the streams, and you'll start to enjoy them more. I remember when I was on Twitch, my goal was always to reach 500 subscribers per month, which I maintained for almost two years, but when I didn't reach it, honestly... It really discourages me, and I questioned whether I was good at what I was doing. Then it dawned on me that I was dedicating way too much time to a platform that wasn't even bringing in half of what I earned on YouTube, and with half the effort. So, as my dad would say, first focus on what actually pays, then on what makes you stupid. If you're not yet earning money from streaming, I recommend only doing one or two live streams per week. I also recommend that your streams don't last more than two hours. Every day you choose to stream instead of creating content, you're further from streaming ceasing to be a hobby. For me, at least in the beginning, it's very important to have a fixed schedule for your streams. This way, you can get your followers used to when they can find you live. Obviously, after your channel grows and your audience grows, you can vary your schedule without negative repercussions. I know that most people, when they start streaming and want to create content, their first idea is, " I'm going to stream, I'm going to post funny clips." What do you think? It's the same idea they had... 99% of streamers started out this way, so I'm not going to tell you right now that it's not a good idea. The best thing would be to focus on creating original content and make the highlights of your streams extra content, not your main content. The best tool to automatically find the best parts of your streams is Nexus Clips, which, with its artificial intelligence, can create clips of your best moments, saving you a ton of time searching for them. They'll already be there, ready for you to edit. You can also use their new tool for YouTube, which creates clips of the best parts of your already published videos. If you'd like to try Nexus Clips, I'll leave a link in the description. If you don't like streaming alone—meaning you absolutely have to be playing with a friend or talking to someone to start a stream, or you're embarrassed to talk to yourself or feel like no one is watching—then maybe streaming isn't for you. Believe me, it's super awkward to join a stranger's stream and try to talk to them when the streamer is in voice chat with their friends. As a viewer, this makes you feel excluded, and you don't even feel like typing. You feel like you 're interrupting a conversation if you're embarrassed to talk to yourself in front of the camera like a crazy person, just like me. But practice, there's no other way. Nobody is born good. Go watch my first videos, they're crap. You simply have to try and practice and practice and practice, otherwise you'll never improve. For me, it's very important to have music in streams because it helps a lot to fill those awkward gaps you often have live, whether it's because you stopped talking, you no longer have a topic of conversation, or you're very focused on playing a game. Believe me, you can really notice the difference when there's music and not. And if you need copyright-free music for your streams, in the description you'll find a link to my record label, which has all kinds of music and is available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc. With this music, you'll never have any copyright problems while you're live, except on Facebook, where nothing works. For me, the simpler your overlay, the better. Most people who have a lot of things in their streams, like animations or videos or things appearing and disappearing, do it because they don't think they're good enough at entertaining that they have to fill their overlay. You use a lot of things to grab the viewer's attention, but this is the complete opposite. You're simply distracting users from what really matters: you. If you want to find the best animated overlays for your streams, you can do so at OW3D. They have tons of designs at incredible prices. Plus, use the code DOO from DOS or the link in the description to get a 50% discount on all your purchases and support the channel. On Twitch, you can raid, which is sending all your viewers to another channel when you finish your stream. Most streamers tend to raid their friends or smaller channels to support us. We smaller streamers support each other, and that's fine, it's totally understandable. But my personal recommendation, if you want to get the most out of this great tool, is to raid bigger streamers than you, streamers with 50 or 100 viewers, streamers who will actually notice you raided them. Most likely, they'll return the favor someday. You can't imagine how many times I've done it. And speaking of favors, please! Don't follow for follow. This is the worst thing you can do. Growing out of pity won't get you anywhere. Maybe the first time you do it, you'll notice you have more followers, or that instead of one viewer, you had two, but that's it. I'm not going to go any further than that. What good are followers if they're not really interested in what you do? They'll just become empty numbers. I highly recommend you have a Twitter account. Famous streamers are always posting their events there, and right now there's a big trend of inviting smaller streamers to everything. Who knows, maybe they'll invite you, you'll make the trendy streamer laugh, you'll release a clip, you'll go viral, and you'll already have half the road to success built. And lastly, I honestly believe there's no exact age to start streaming. Personally, I think anyone can stream regardless of age. For me, it depends more on the person's maturity and being very aware of what they're exposing themselves to. There are some really awesome people who will always support you online, but there are also... Very annoying. So if streaming appeals to you, go for it, believe me, it's a lot of fun. I just want you to be aware that not everyone will like you, and that's okay. I recommend that you always focus on the positive comments and laugh at the negative ones. A few months ago, I decided to create the perfect top streaming setup, and in this video, I'll show you how I did it. Click here, see you in Click here, see you in this video!