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title: 'How to Start on Twitch in 2026 - Complete Guide'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=RMpaesHNmwI'
video_id: 'RMpaesHNmwI'
date: 2026-07-14
duration_sec: 1252
---

# How to Start on Twitch in 2026 - Complete Guide

> Source: [How to Start on Twitch in 2026 - Complete Guide](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RMpaesHNmwI)

## Summary

This video provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to start streaming on Twitch in 2026 using OBS Studio. The tutorial covers everything from internet and hardware requirements to setting up scenes, overlays, alerts, and going live.

### Key Points

- **Sponsor and Introduction** [00:01] — The video is sponsored by KissFan, a legitimate site to buy Windows and Office keys at a discount. The creator, Almich, introduces the updated tutorial for starting on Twitch.
- **Internet Requirements** [01:47] — Minimum upload speed of 6 Mbps is required for streaming. Use Speedtest to check. If upload is below 6 Mbps, the stream will be choppy or unwatchable.
- **Hardware Requirements** [02:52] — Recommended: at least an Intel i5 or Ryzen 5 processor, no older than 5 generations. The PC should handle multiple programs without slowing down. Check specs via Start > Settings > System > About.
- **Downloading and Configuring OBS** [03:45] — Download OBS from the official website. Run the auto-configuration wizard, select 'Optimize for Streaming', set canvas resolution to monitor's resolution, FPS to 60 if possible, and connect Twitch account.
- **Adding Webcam and Overlays** [05:38] — Add webcam via Sources > '+' > Video Capture Device. Add overlays via Sources > '+' > Image. Overlays are optional; webcam alone is sufficient.
- **Using OBS Chat and Stream Info** [06:54] — OBS has an integrated chat panel. You can change stream title, category, tags, and audience settings directly in OBS.
- **Microphone Setup** [08:11] — Microphone is usually detected automatically. If not, go to Audio Mixer, click three dots on 'Mic/Aux', select Properties, and choose the correct device.
- **Creating Gameplay Scene** [09:18] — Add a new scene for gameplay. Use 'Display Capture' to capture the entire screen, making it easier to switch games without reconfiguring.
- **Cropping and Layering** [11:45] — Hold Alt and drag edges to crop sources. Ensure webcam is above game layer to avoid being hidden. Resize and position as needed.
- **Configuring Alerts on Twitch** [12:57] — Go to Creator Dashboard > Alerts. Create an alert group. Customize each alert (follow, sub, etc.) with text, images, sounds, and effects. Copy the Browser Source URL.
- **Adding Alerts to OBS** [14:40] — In OBS, add a Browser source to each scene, paste the URL from Twitch alerts. Position the alert box. Use 'Send test alert' to verify.
- **Customizing Alert Design** [15:35] — Customize alert layout, background, text, colors, voice (TTS), images, sounds, and vibration effects. Save changes and copy the updated URL.
- **Going Live** [19:37] — Press 'Start Streaming' in OBS. Ensure alerts are added to all scenes. One Browser source handles all alert types.

### Conclusion

With OBS configured and alerts set up, you're ready to start streaming on Twitch. The video emphasizes simplicity and provides all necessary steps for a beginner-friendly setup.

## Transcript

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remastering a video that, although I consider it quite good, is a bit old and needs an update. In this tutorial, I'll show you...  I'm going to tell you what you streaming and how to do it in a pretty simple way. But if you also
is, how it works, how to generate income, and all that— here where I explain everything you need to know about the this video. What I'm going to teach you to do: first, the
decent stream; the programs to use; program configuration for streaming; scene creation and configuration; and alert configuration. I'll start by emphasizing that this video is for laptop or PC users, not
for console or mobile users. For you, I already have videos my channel; they're very good. Then, what programs will you need? A Twitch account, the OBS Studio program, a microphone, and an optional but
keep it simple, but before we start with the data transfer channels: download and upload. As a general rule,
than the upload speed.  Upload and download speeds are the same thing, and secondly, for streaming, the speed we're interested in is the upload speed because, since we 're sending information from our PC, we need
a minimum data transfer speed of 6 Mbps. If you don't know your internet speed, you can use websites like Speedtest to measure it. I'll leave the link in the description; with just one click,
information. What happens if your internet upload speed is less than 6 Mbps? It's very likely that your stream will look bad: choppy, paused, with a lot of delay, or even completely unwatchable. You
know what I mean—a really bad stream, something no one would watch. You also have to consider the power of your machine. If it's very old or low-end, it probably won't be able to handle the processing of a live stream.
is suitable for streaming? First, by looking at processor and graphics card have a lot of weight, if not almost all the weight, of making a good stream. I would recommend having at least an
Intel i5 or a Risen 5 processor.  AMD processors that you don't like are a maximum of 5 years old. That is, no older than five generations. If you don't know your machine's specifications, don't worry. Simply go to Start, click on
Settings, go to System, and in the last option, About, you'll find all the computer's specifications. But for practical purposes, if your PC slows down or freezes when you're using more than two programs at the same time, or
can only run very old games or games that aren't as demanding as League of Legends, then it will be difficult for your PC to stream. We're assuming that our PC and streaming. Now, let's start with the tutorial. The first thing you're going to do is
go to the official OBS website. I'll leave the link in the description. Here you'll download the program using the first option, and it's completely free. Once you've downloaded the program,
the automatic setup wizard will appear. Let's make sure that the " Optimize for Streaming" option is enabled because what we want is to stream. Then we'll click Next. In the first part,
Canvas Resolution, you're going to set the Your main monitor's resolution (if you have more than one, most will use Full HD). But if you can't select another, again, depending on
your monitor's resolution, then in the FPS section, we'll leave it as is, 60 or 30, but use 60 when possible. Click Next. In Services, select Twitch, and here's an option that says "Connect Account
Recommended." Clicking it will allow you to Log In with Twitch. It's highly recommended that you log in, mainly to get the most out of OBS Studio. Then you'll see a screen like this. Here, we
'll also make sure these two boxes are checked, and then click Next. We'll wait a few seconds for OBS to automatically configure itself with the best options for our internet and PC. The process
takes about a minute, and once finished, this screen will appear. Here, it gives us a summary of how OBS was configured. I should mention that the results be the same as mine because,
as I said, it depends a lot on your computer and your internet connection, but these results are meant to be a guide.  We have these settings here to stream at the highest quality on Twitch. Next, we'll click on " Apply Settings," and that's it! Your OBS
is now ready to start streaming and is already connected to your Twitch account. We can see this in the chat that appeared here on the right. What's next is adding scenes. Yes, with this, we can start
streaming. But all our viewers will see is this black box; nothing else is visible. So, I'm going to start by adding my webcam. At this point, I assume you've already set up your webcam and adjusted it so it looks good. Now we
just need to add it to OBS, and this is quite easy. We're going to go to the bottom left of our OBS and click on the "+" icon in the " Sources" section. Then, all these options will appear. As I said, I'm going to
add my webcam, so I have to add the one that says " has a little camera icon. I click on it, and right here is where we're going to select our webcam. I see these two options because I already
have several devices added, but you have to create a new one. So we're going to click "accept," or if you want to change the name, go ahead, but I'm not, so I'm going to click " accept." Here in "device," I'm going to
use the Bcam app. If you're like me and nothing is showing up, just click " Disable" and then "Activate," and that's it. It should be visible now. There's really nothing else to change here, just leave it as is. We
simply click "accept," and that's it. We now have a webcam. This alone chat with people, but we can always add things. For example, an overlay. How would you add an overlay? Here, in the "
sources" section, we're going to click "more," select "image," and I'm going to create one that says "new overlay." I'm going to click " accept," and here I'm going to find the Obviously, if you already have an overlay, and maybe you're wondering what an
overlay is, well, it's this. Here I click " accept." An overlay is basically having personal taste. It's not...  You have to have it if you like it, but if not, just the webcam is more than enough. And now I want to take this opportunity to
the boxes we have on the left and right. As I said, on this side we have the chat directly integrated into OBS. From here you can type without any problem, meaning you don't need to
interact with the Twitch page; you can do everything from OBS, including configuring your channel. Here you can change the title of your stream, change the notification, which is what people see when you're
live, change the category, the audience type, and you can also add tags, which are like describing your stream, the language, the content rating. Here you see if it's substance use, gambling,
adult games, profanity and vulgar expressions, explicit content, depictions of violent graphic content. Wow, Twitch wants you to this. Now, regarding the microphone, as you can see, it detected mine
automatically. In fact, it detects most people's microphones automatically. first, let's obviously connect our microphone, then in the part down here...  In the audio mixer, locate the one that says "auxiliary microphone."
Click on the three dots, then on " Properties," and OK," and that's it! You should now be able to hear your microphone. Another thing I want to clarify is that you probably won't see as many
audio tracks as I do. I see them this way because I have them configured to audio channel just for the microphone, another for music, another for the browser, another for the system, and even
one for Discord. This is mainly for greater control, but it also helps you circumvent copyright on Twitch. Oh yes, because Twitch has copyright restrictions, and be careful because they can even ban your channel. But as I said, there are ways
know how, check out the video above; I explain it in detail, and it's 100% functional, I guarantee it. Okay, so I already have my you want is to play. Let's create a second scene for the gameplay. For
this again...  Bottom left of OBS, this time in the Scenes section. Let's add more, and here you give it an identifiable name: Gameplay. Yes, yes, I already have many Gameplay scenes. We click OK and change the scene
automatically. And while we're at it, if you want to know how I do this effect or several other effects of this type of animation to change scenes, like this one meteors. It's good, huh? Up here I'm also going to leave you a
detailed video with everything you need to do it, okay? We're already in our new scene. And as always, every time we add a new scene, the sources will be blank, there won't be anything there, so we're going to go back to
Sources down here. We're going to click Add, and remember that this is a Gameplay, right? I recommend that you take a screenshot. Why a screenshot and not capture a specific program? It's so we don't have to
rack our brains manually changing each program every time even every time we do a YouTube reaction or something else. It's easier, at least in my opinion. Here we simply click OK. And  If for some reason
our screen isn't full, we're going to go to the corner here where the red borders are, click, and drag until our screen is full. There you go, ready. So every time I run a game, it will
screen because this is my main screen. There it is, and whenever I run a new game, there won't be a problem because everything will be on the screen. And obviously, we can also add many things here, for example, my
camera. Let's select " Video Capture Device." Here we can click " Add Existing," and the camera you added previously in Video Capture Device 2." You select it, click "OK," and
the camera appears. The thing is, the camera didn't appear full screen. Let's fix that. Just like I arranged my screen, I can do the same here. We go to the corner of the red border and drag until it's
in place. As you can see, the game is at the bottom, and while we're at it, it's very important to and while we're at it, it's very important to camera, which is this device...  It's on top of the screen layer, which is the
game. If I flip them, the game will be on top of the camera. So it's mind, especially if you're going to add more things like alerts, overlays, or chat, Besides making the image bigger or smaller, you
can also crop it. To do that, press and hold the Alt key, then position yourself here on an edge and drag. As you can see, it's edge and drag. As you can see, it's cutting everything. Cut, cut,
cut, and that's it! It looks nice, it looks nice. As I said a moment ago, we can also add overlays, and I know that most of you won't overlays are usually custom-made. For example, the one I have, I commissioned from
a graphic illustrator, and he made it for me, obviously for a fee. But there are websites where you can get some really cool overlays, some even a video up here; I'll leave it for you where I show you how to do it. With what I just
tools to do it. different scenes: the opening scene, which they show while getting ready for the stream; they want to chat; the Gameplay scene, which
can also be used for reacting to videos, or you can create another scene YouTube videos; and the closing scene, which is used when the stream ends. Now I'm going to show you how to configure alerts. If you don't know
what they are, I'll explain quickly: alerts are notifications that appear on your live screen and are activated whenever a viewer or participant in your stream performs a predetermined action, such as
channel, or performing some other action that we'll go into shortly. To go back to the Twitch page. In the top right corner, we'll go to our profile and then to the
Creator Dashboard. Then, in the left-hand section, we'll go to Alerts, and here you can configure and activate all the available alerts.  To do this on your stream, there are alerts for the hype train, for
celebrations, for channel points, and much more. To begin, we're going to go to this alert group section on the right and click on "Create alert group." Here you can confirm all the alerts
available for your stream, and they are all configured in the same way. Let's configure this "New Follower" alert, which was previously selected. As you can see, this is what will appear on your stream every time a
new person follows you. This heart animation will appear, along with the text "Just followed you" and the viewer's name. If you don't want to configure anything and would like to use Twitch's default settings, no problem.
First, check that all the alerts are active. Here you can also see brief previews of how they will look; they're actually very good. Then, in the bottom right, you'll see text that says "Browser Source URL."
Here, we're going to copy it and then go back to OBS. Now, in OBS, we're going to do the following with each of the scenes you for Yos Charing Lo  We're going to do it there, and if you also created one for the gameplay, we'll do that
five scenes, in all five you're going to do what I'm going to show you next. more," select the browser option, and here you give it whatever name you want. "Alerts" wouldn't be the best; I think I already have that name. So I'm going to
call it "Alerts." Okay, here you're going to paste the code you copied from Twitch, press Ctrl+V, and click "OK." And if you can see this red box here, that's where your alert will appear. Then you can position it
wherever you want. Let's see, for example, I want it a little smaller. I'd like the alerts in my Jos Charing scene to look like this. And to check back to Twitch, and here at the top there's an option that says "Send
test alert." You're going to click on it. See, here it is. Okay, there it is. Yes, it looks like this. That's how it should look. You can position it wherever you like, but if you want  More personalized alerts: let's configure them. On the
customization options, for example, the design. Here you can select where the image and text appear. Set it to best suit your stream. In the background, opacity, padding, and spacing sections, I
also have the option to round the corners or shade the recommend leaving these two as they are. Later, we have text and voice. Here you modify the message you want to appear in the alert. The
default is "Just followed you" and the username, but you can brackets or the words " username" because this is the variable Twitch needs to display the name of each follower. It's code, so do
n't touch it. But you can modify the rest. In my case, I'm going to put " Username: Thanks for following me." We can even add an emoji. going to change it to this one. You can change
can also modify the text design.  Whether it's justified, I recommend centering it. You can also modify the text colors. In this case, the first color is for the
message and the second color is for the username. Use whichever suits you best. For example, my background is white, so I'm going to make the text dark and the username a slightly more contrasting color. Here you can also activate
the text shadow and have the option to play the text from the screen. Alert: So, a voice reads the message. If you're just starting out, I recommend activating this feature, mainly to make your stream more dynamic. We can also modify the voice;
as you can see, there are several languages, and we can even select genres and accents. I'll use Latin American Spanish. The voice volume can also be adjusted; set it to best suit your
stream. Now let's move on to images and sounds. That's right, we can change the animation of our alert. We can either upload a file ourselves—an image, a GIF, or one from the
Twitch library. For example, I'll use this one with the bats. Select it and click "Add to alert," and this is how it will look. sound, either uploading an audio file or selecting one from the
Twitch library. You can listen to it here. Okay, we click "Add to alert." The volume can also be adjusted. Now we have the vibration feature, one of my favorites. Because in addition to
add an extra effect that can appear across our entire screen. For flamethrowers, or rain—we can select the intensity of these effects. I'm going to set it to medium. Then, select the area where you want these
animations to appear: just the video, just your stream, only in the chat, or, as I recommend, everywhere. Finally, there's the " everything you've done once you've finished configuring your
alerts. Remember, if you want them customized like I just did, you have to repeat this same process for all the others. Yes, it's a all the changes, always remember to save
them, otherwise, nothing you did will be applied. Once you've saved them, copy the URL, go to your live stream, and do exactly the same thing. In Sources, click Add,
then Browser. Create your alerts, click OK, delete this, paste the URL you copied from Twitch, click OK, and modify this little red box here to fit your stream and
check if it looks right.  We go back to Twitch, click on "Send Test Alerts," go back to OBS, and there it is. It looks pretty good, friends. I forgot to mention that the celebration won't be displayed in OBS because that has to be
displayed directly on the Twitch screen, but it will look something like this. That's what you would see on your entire Twitch page when this alert is activated. And one more thing that I didn't mention in the previous video, and many criticized me for: to
start streaming on Twitch with OBS, you must press the button that says "Start Streaming." Remember, you have to configure all the alerts one by one if you want to customize them, and you have to add the alert source
to all the scenes you have: Just Chatting, Gameplay, all of them. And you only need one source for all the alerts. Yes, yes, you don't have to create one source for the new follower alert and another source for the
follower alert and another source for the subscriber alert. Not all 1415 alerts we saw on Twitch; just add one, and they all go together in a single source in OBS. Yes, despite everything I just told you, everything that  I just
showed you. If you have any questions about any of the processes, first clear, leave your questions in the comments section or contact me on social media, especially Instagram, where I'm most active. I
the description. And while I'm at it, I want to remind you live streams here on YouTube where tips, and offer suggestions for improvement. Subscribers have
priority for review in these live streams. If you're interested, I'll leave the link below, or you can also click the " Join" button. Thank you so much for watching the video. This is Almich Creators, and see you around!