How to Grow on Twitch in 2021

[00:01] grow on Twitch. I'm going to show you how to get out of that initial phase with zero or two viewers and really grow to 15 viewers, or maybe even more. So if you want to accelerate the growth of your Twitch stream and get out of

[00:13] that annoying beginning more easily, stick with me in this video and let's go! Greetings, my dear streamer, I'm Tzin, and I'm always here giving tips on

[00:26] how you can improve your stream. Today I'm going to show you some aspects of Twitch that we don't think about when we're starting to stream, but that make all the difference and that you 'll discover later. But if you already know them

[00:38] now, you'll have a great advantage over the people who are starting out and will greatly accelerate the growth of your stream, great advantage over the people who are starting out and will greatly accelerate the growth of your stream, my dear streamer. I also started my Twitch from scratch, and my YouTube too. I started from scratch in the beginning, so I know how difficult it was to stream to two or three people; it's an annoying start. But after a while studying and learning more about how to grow, I managed to understand what worked and what didn't. And now that I'm back to streaming, I'm going to show you

[00:54] stream to two or three people. It's an annoying beginning, but after a while studying and learning more about how to grow, I managed to understand what worked and what didn't. And now that I'm back to streaming, I'm going to show you how difficult it was. In two months of live streaming, I went

[01:07] from zero viewers to an average of 15 viewers in a short time because I had already understood how to better manage this growth on Twitch. some things you can think about and apply in practice to

[01:19] your stream faster, just like mine did. So, the idea in this video is to show you this stage of spending several months with one or two viewers until you get the hang of it, and I'll show you what I applied

[01:31] differently, what I started to understand about Twitch to really change my journey in these two months, going from zero to 15 viewers. weaknesses of Twitch.

[01:44] engagement it creates within its community. The Twitch chat is a show in itself, and the interaction between the chat and the streamer is really the differentiating factor that makes us truly passionate about the platform and want to stream and

[01:58] you've probably already noticed, is the promotion and growth of small streamers. This is really the weakest part of Twitch, and something we'll have to address. Learning how to deal with this

[02:14] our streams will involve maximizing the value of community and finding the best possible solutions for promotion to Regarding promotion, I 'll discuss how to overcome this "F" factor on Twitch throughout the video, but at the end, I'll really talk about the key

[02:28] difference that will allow you to go from being a small streamer to having a from your stream. First and foremost, what you need to change in your mindset is that now you're a streamer, you're streaming, not playing games—they're

[02:42] different things. When you're streaming, the priority is your stream and your audience. Now that you're a streamer, you need an audience, and to build an audience, you first need to define a regular schedule. You

[02:54] 'll have to set a time and day you'll stream and create a precise schedule and stick to it. Only then will people be able to find you within that same time slot in their routine. Let's take

[03:07] television as an example: if you know that from Monday to Thursday evenings your favorite program will air, you'll arrive at that happening so you can watch it

[03:19] on TV, having a routine is important so we know when we can watch that program we want so much. This works exactly the same way for streaming, so you always need to have the same

[03:32] time slot on the days you're going to broadcast. You can broadcast Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but always try to maintain the same time slot because this keeps the

[03:44] audience will always be there with a greater chance of returning. Because, going back to the TV example, imagine that your favorite program airs Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights and Friday mornings at 7 am. Certainly, the

[03:58] audience that watches at 7 am on Friday is not the same as the one that watched Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. I think you understand the explanation now. It's on the days you're going to broadcast, but the only rule I'm going to put here

[04:11] for you is that you don't use all the time you have to stream or all the available days of your week because that will accumulate. Our tip at the need a... Free time to really grow, and now that you're a

[04:24] streamer, another thing you need to understand is that your chat is more important than the game. Your chat is everything to you on your live stream because that's where your audience is. So you have to start creating the habit of talking almost all the

[04:36] time to always have something to talk about, keep your chat alive, and have stream. "Oh, but nobody's watching me? Why would I be talking aimlessly?" Well, you know that people counter that Twitch has that

[04:49] shows how many people are watching you? That's not in real time. It let's say you have zero viewers. You're playing alone, nobody's watching, and suddenly that counter

[05:01] changes to one. That person joined your live stream about 10 seconds ago, you only found out now, and you haven't said anything to them for 10 seconds. play without saying anything for 10 seconds, and a lot of data shows that the first 10 seconds

[05:16] of any video or stream that someone watches are the time watching or close the stream. The window will disappear, so you can't waste the first 10 seconds that the person is watching your stream without saying anything. So, the habit

[05:30] of talking to yourself all the time, whether the stream is empty or full (if you hide the number of viewers so you won't know if anyone is watching or not), will force you to talk all the time, regardless

[05:43] of whether the chat is responding or not, whether people are watching or not. This will give you a better chance of winning over those who come to your stream. talking to you; people will start messaging you. Your job is, instead of

[05:56] directly responding, to give the person something to talk about, to talk about, to my live stream and asks, "Hey, how's it going? Are you winning?", I say, "Yeah," and the conversation dies.

[06:11] Now, this person says, "Hey, how's it going? Are you winning?", I say, "Yeah, man, did you play today? Did you play League of Legends today? Did you win? How did it go?" And then the person will answer, and you ask, "But what characters do you play in the game?"

[06:24] and then... The conversation continues, and you'll start gathering information from that viewer who just arrived, which you can save for later use. Besides extending your relationship and keeping the chat alive and strong,

[06:36] attracting more people, you'll also get other information from that person. For example, "Does that guy like chess?" or "Does that guy like empanadas?" The next time they come online, you can say, "Hey, did you eat

[06:48] that empanada you talked about the other day?" When the person comes back and sees that you remember them, that you treat them like a special person, they have a much, much greater chance of returning to your stream and becoming

[07:02] a true member of your community, a loyal viewer. Now, to your live stream, to really increase the have a better chance of retaining some of them and turning them into

[07:14] viewers, the first step is definitely choosing the right game or the right content. Not streaming overly popular content will help a lot at the beginning mean you can't play what you want; if you want to play

[07:28] Valorant, you can play it. So, you'll have to promote it within the game you're match, and your growth will be slower if you can use smaller game chats to bring more people to your stream and increase your stream's exposure.

[07:41] This is a valid technique and one of the few techniques we have to really increase exposure on or related topics. It's important to remember what I said earlier:

[07:54] the most important thing in your live stream is interaction with the chat. So always look for games that have a space where you can interact with your audience. For example, games that aren't frantic, high-intensity, like

[08:06] Valorant, which is intense all the time. When you die, you have time to talk to your audience; you need a window of time will build loyalty. If it's a game where you can never talk

[08:19] to anyone, it might be a bad game choice for you. Oh, and don't important than the game itself. If you eventually receive a network of much larger numbers of people... If you have viewers who are the same number as you, or even the same number of

[08:31] any large number of viewers, that's how the match becomes network; you have to make the most of it and retain as many people as you can. It's okay if you die, if you don't do anything in the match; people

[08:47] them and will enjoy it. This will increase the chances of them staying and actually continuing to watch your live stream. A common mistake I see among people who are their community as if they were a

[09:00] big streamer who only responds to chat and keeps playing. As a small streamer, you have to value your few viewers to start growing. So it's important that you play matches with your viewers, that you have

[09:12] a Discord server, talk to them, try to create intimacy, a friendship with them, one or two viewers. Soon it will become 20, soon it will become 30. So interact with your community, have a

[09:25] relationship with them, play with them, don't just play with subscribers. If your channel is small, that's something big channels do. Remember, big channels treat their community in a different way. A small channel deals with something else; you need to be intimate, take advantage of that

[09:39] close relationship, and only a small streaming channel can offer that. A big channel will never be able to be as close as you, so take advantage of that while your stream is small and work on it as you grow. And if you're

[09:52] enjoying this video, it's helping you improve your stream. My channel is only about tips for streamers and how to improve your stream, so if you want more cool videos like this, subscribe to the channel, click the bell, and you'll

[10:04] receive my content as soon as it arrives. And now, getting to that promised tip about promotion, the most important thing for you to eventually become a big streamer is that you work on promotion on other

[10:16] platforms because Twitch has a weak point in promotion because it doesn't promotion as a strength, such as YouTube and Instagram. All these platforms have search and content delivery as their strength, so invest in

[10:31] other social networks, especially YouTube. YouTube is very powerful for this; my channel is a living example of that. My YouTube channel brings a lot of people to my Twitch channel, and it's certainly one of the great growth tools. And

[10:43] probably, if my YouTube channel continues to grow... My Twitch stream will always be a flow of people coming to get to know me, so I YouTube or Instagram or any platform that best suits the

[10:57] content you want to offer, and yes, bring people to your live stream. That's will really make you go from a small, average streamer to having a much better chance of becoming a big streamer. Because if you stop to think about it, every

[11:11] big streamer has Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, and it's not by chance, my dear streamer. They know that these social networks complement each other; one brings people to the other. So all the exposure that YouTube and

[11:24] Instagram bring them will greatly feed their Twitch streams, and then everything will grow as a system. And that's how you grow to really become big on the platforms. You're not going to start making YouTube

[11:37] clips of your live stream; that's something big channels do. In their case, they're take the audience they've already built and make more money from it, or to create even more content for that audience they've already

[11:50] built. You'll need to create original content. Unique content that people want to watch. For example, if you want to do just making Valorant gameplay clips, you

[12:02] could do challenges like: Valorant only with a pistol, all rounds; Valorant only using a shotgun; Valorant only with a sniper rifle without a scope. You understand that this creates different content, something different in relation to gameplay, which gives

[12:17] people the potential to watch. So look for a platform that because to start, YouTube, that platform works. It's something that takes time; you'll learn how to create

[12:30] content for it because that's really the best tip for long-term growth. I gave you earlier about short-term growth, ways to start growing your Twitter now, and now I'm telling you how you really

[12:42] grow to become a big streamer, eventually having the chance to live off your stream. So keep in mind, streaming is a marathon, not a sprint. You need to plan, and over time and with a lot of work,

[12:55] can really start to grow more and more. And if you liked these tips... And if there are many good videos like these ones I have here on my channel for you to continue learning about live streaming. Thank you for your company, a kiss and happy streaming!