How to Grow Your Twitch Stream from Zero to Thousands of Viewers

[00:00] If you're tired of streaming to zero, to just a couple of viewers for hours every single week, not knowing how to grow past that, and you want to grow your stream to 10 plus, 50 plus, 100 plus, 1,000 plus viewers, but you're not sure

[00:13] how. Well, I'm going to show you exactly how to do it in this video. If you're know exactly how you feel because I was in the trenches just like you. So, that's why I've broken all of this down into three easy steps in order to start

[00:28] stream and you know all the basics because you've been watching the videos channel's looking cool, and it doesn't look like a pile of duty. And if it below cuz it's just plugandplay. Just drop it right on there and be done with

[00:45] problem. The cold hard truth is that you are invisible just streaming on Twitch will take is that they will only stream on Twitch exclusively. So that means the

[01:01] audience is simply just through these little browse categories on Twitch or like Call of Duty or Fortnite or basically anything in the first several

[01:15] two at most. That's because these are what we'd like to call oversaturated games. There's literally thousands of people streaming this game. So, the odds of you getting picked out from this huge group of streamers is next to

[01:30] impossible. Now, you can do things like changing your title and making a really the sheer amount of people. they're lucky to even see your title, let alone your stream. So, this is where a lot of brand new streamers get caught because

[01:45] There's simply too much supply and not enough demand, aka too many streamers first path is exclusively just streaming through here. So, what people will do to

[01:59] kind of mitigate that or aka still grow their streams while just streaming games, aka less saturated games. And this is a feasible option. However,

[02:11] So, for example, if you wanted to stream something like, I don't know, let's go with Runescape. You can see that the top person is 269, next person has 107, then

[02:23] it's about 47 354, and then it goes down and down and down. So, the theoretical cap for this game at this time is around 269 viewers. Now, given that can change end of the day, if you're only streaming through Twitch, you're only limited to

[02:40] the amount of people that are interested in watching Runescape already on Twitch at this time. So, that's really one of the big downsides of exclusively just like Kick or whatever else. And so theoretically, if you're playing a

[02:54] different game like I don't know, let's say BeatSaber, we can sort from high to low in the top right corner. We can see 78, 39, 34, 26, 15. So if you wanted to or take. And that's more like best case scenario. You'd probably want to split

[03:11] more of the average of these, which would likely be around, let's say, 15 to 30ish viewers, which depending on your goal for streaming and what you want to However, like I mentioned earlier, the only way that you're getting in new

[03:24] traffic and getting discovered is simply through this browse page right here. So, that's why you're getting a ceiling or a cap on the amount of exposure and mind that no matter how good your stream is, how funny you are, how cool graphics

[03:38] you got, how just entertaining you are as a person, they need to be able to actually click on your stream first and find you before they can actually without step one of getting discovered and them clicking on you, step two does

[03:52] to you to experience that in the first place. That's why discoverability is so important. Which leads us to the second path which instead of one just streaming additional content on other platforms like YouTube videos, YouTube shorts,

[04:11] Instagram reels, Tik Toks, and things of that nature because the traffic source is going to be so much more than just streaming on your platform of choice. of streamers get caught up because they originally signed up to stream just to

[04:26] holding hands with content creation and they go together like peanut butter and terms of growth. So, let's take a look at a really common example I see all the

[04:40] Twitch. And this is what I see a lot. They're Counter-Strike streamer and they been creating content. But the problem is is it's all over the place. It's a

[04:54] mixture of meme videos. It's a mixture of challenge videos. It's a mixture of gameplay videos, starting fires for whatever reason, montages, everything. what'll happen is they'll post a lot of random videos like this. They'll get

[05:10] views on it. Like check if we check the popular. We got about 2,000 views just they not coming over to my Twitch channel to my live streams? And the answer is kind of simple, but also complicated at the same time. The first

[05:24] problem specifically with this is that the most popular video is a Five Below Counterstrike, which they play on their Twitch stream, and two, there's only one unboxing video here. There's a couple things we need to analyze about this.

[05:39] Number one, congratulations to Coffee Creamers for finding a video that actually got views. Obviously, they have 70 subscribers and this video has almost market because clearly there's an audience that's interested in this

[05:53] content right here because they have 70 subscribers and this has 2,000 views. down on this content and do more Five Below review and unboxing videos

[06:05] what the people are interested in. And I guarantee that if they made a very similar video to this, it would also have very similar performance as this video here. Compared to if we looked at their latest videos, we have a anime

[06:20] statue which has 12 views. We have I guess CS2 clips which is 50. We have like a donation video for 32 and lighting a fire for 277. It's all over experimentation is great and you want to just throw a bunch of stuff at the wall

[06:37] and see what sticks. And now that you've done that, you can see that this is your best performing video. So, this has stuck. So, I would either pursue throwing more stuff and see if you get more bangers like this did okay, too. It

[06:52] actual Twitch content, which is a lot more overlap because also like if you're come watch you play Counter-Strike. So, you also have to keep that in mind when

[07:05] more tie-in with your Twitch unless you want to exclusively talk about unboxing reason why people are not going to come over from your YouTube channel to your

[07:18] Twitch is that they just simply don't have enough content from you in order to want to do that. You usually want to make your YouTube subscribers want more stream. So let's say you have like 10, 15, 30 videos of these Five Below videos

[07:33] you're going to start seeing some more crossover to your Twitch channel. You're come to your Twitch channel. It's just not that likely. You need to want your

[07:45] viewers to want to binge your content because the more they binge your videos, as a creator, and that's when they're going to make the choice to go over to your Twitch channel. I love to use this example. I found this streamer,

[07:59] Snitches, on YouTube originally because he makes a whole bunch of these Xbox achievement videos, but makes them even harder to get, which I find super video, four video, five video, six video. There's probably at least 10

[08:13] videos that I watched of this, and these are 30 minute long videos before I, as live streams. So that took what almost like I don't know I'm I'm pretty bad at math but let's say five hours give or take of watching his YouTube content

[08:28] mentality that you're going to post a couple videos and then you're going to have to be realistic about this stuff and understand how it actually works. So

[08:40] quick recap. Step one, discoverability problem. Streaming exclusively on Twitch discoverable content on more discoverable platforms like YouTube to funnel into your Twitch channel or kick channel or wherever. And getting

[08:57] editing, coming up with hooks, titles, and ultimately just finding gaps in the videos that people actually want to watch and finding videos that people

[09:10] aren't making, aka this category right here. And overall, just doing more planning and less streaming because the more research and planning you do, the all of this on top of streaming can be freaking exhausting. And that's why we

[09:26] to step number three, if all of this sounds super overwhelming to you and you experience, then check out my free streamers master class, which is linked

[09:38] down in the description below. And step number three is finding ways to expedite do it without burning out. Because I don't know about you guys, but after videos, do research, look at analytics, and come up with video ideas after

[09:55] especially for people that have a full-time job, school, kids, and the latter. That's just simply a recipe for burnout, and that's why majority of going to be your blessing. For example, you probably noticed that this has a 19X

[10:12] right here. That is what is called an outlier score. And that's from a tool TubeBuddy, but I like Vid IQ more. For example, this saves me so much time because let's just type in a popular game like schedule one here. And then

[10:27] we're going to hit space to make it more specific. So, we can do tips and tricks. And then we can also make it more specific if we needed to. But right now, I type in schedule one tips and tricks. Vid IQ is going to tell me how good of a

[10:39] video idea this is and the good chances of it actually performing. Okay. It's also going to give me more metrics like how many views per hour this is getting, really good video because we can see this YouTuber has a,000 subscribers,

[10:54] which in the grand scheme of things is nothing, especially compared to videos like 309. And so, one of my secrets on what I like to do to get views is play, schedule one space, see what they recommend. So, tips and tricks is

[11:08] to take a look at all this. We're going to see the title, we're going to see the And we're going to completely X out all of the YouTubers with like over 100 or

[11:21] the better performing video, that shows that anyone can make this video. and it's gonna bang because this YouTuber has a thousand subscribers and yet this video is popping off. Two days ago, 44,000 views. That's amazing. And Vid IQ

[11:36] want, I'll leave it linked in the description below so you can check it has 21K subscribers and like 206K views in 9 days. That's amazing. So, I'd take

[11:49] notes on the title and thumbnail and then I'd start crafting things of these nature in order to set myself up for success on my next upload. You do the exact thing. Rinse and repeat. Like this YouTuber, 5,000 subscribers, which is

[12:03] also amazing. I'd take notes on the title, thumbnail, and then create freaking time, it's unbelievable. And since I'm a streamer, another really

[12:17] is they take your stream and automatically turn it into short form literal hours of my time. And nice enough, they sponsored this video so I

[12:30] short form content, as well as giving you guys a sweet little discount so you Clips here, which is linked in the description down below. Then you'll link your Twitch and YouTube account. So then after you go live and do your stream,

[12:45] once you end your stream, Nexus will email you saying your best moments are ready. So all you got to do is click on create clips. Now it said it found 47 here. Then you can see on the lefth hand side here, we got 47 different clips

[12:59] here. It gives you optional titles you can use. It tells you the virality index click on it. It's going to jump to the space in your stream of when it you like it or not. And it also gives you the length of those clips. So let's

[13:16] click on create clip in the top right corner. And then you can either download you need to clean it up. But we can just click on edit clip. But you can see it's

[13:28] already started to do all of the editing for us. But we can actually add our face cam over here. We can choose a style. Like this mini one is one of my little things here. So, we get the gameplay and my face. We can scroll all

[13:43] then you can also unmute it too if you want so you can hear it. But you can see on the top left we have subtitles. So you can choose the different subtitle can go and move it around on the screen too. So you can also adjust that. Also,

[14:00] and how long they are. or for example, you just need to double click on a word and change it. Like if it's them instead of they, you can go and change it and just like your little Twitch logo, and then you can just pop it there.

[14:17] know a lot of people love it, so you could do that, but I'm just going to not show the sticker there. And then for the hook, this is one of the most important want to add one at the beginning to tell your audience what your shorts about. So

[14:35] just change it to be about like 2 to 3 seconds. Just enough for them to read it, but not create too much clutter. So in this case, we'll just say I can't believe this happened, which is the most generic one I could come up with. And

[14:51] of tell them what to expect out of this clip here. So that way you can kind of clip. So that way they just don't swipe away, which will kill your watch time

[15:04] not worth pushing to other people to watch. So you can do all of this stuff and it's all super easy to do, super quick. And then you can just go and feel all that, you just have to click share in the top right corner. And you can

[15:20] webcam here with all the editing done. or you can just connect your YouTube or more time. So, it really just does everything for you in a fraction of the

[15:34] would take you hours as a beginner. And that's personally why I love it. So, if you guys want to give this a shot yourself, you can use coupon code and pro bonus tip for you guys, how I like to use Nexus clips as well is if you go

[15:51] to the homepage, you can actually click on edit clip here and import a clip. Streamlabs, which is essentially a hotkey you press on your keyboard. That will go and record the last 30 seconds, 60 seconds, however long you want to set

[16:06] just hit that key on my keyboard, it records that clip. Then I can take that clip and drag it into Nexus and do the exact same thing. So that way it I don't have to scroll through the 47 different best moments on there. I know

[16:23] that's what I just do. So if you want to learn how to use the replay buffer, then Cody and I will see you in the next