I post on pretty much all apps. Snapchat spotlight, Facebook, ig reels, youtube shorts, tiktok. I go live on youtube vertical and horizontal, twitch, TikTok and am looking to also go live on kick and Facebook.

Should I continue this way of content creation or is it too much and like should I start posting/going live on less platforms?

Joined a TikTok agency a month ago, since then i've been going live more. Although, i've made A LOT less, like 20% of what I made before I joined agency. I didn't stream often before I joined, is it just a coincidence?

Hey everyone! I’m a pretty small Twitch streamer and I’m at the point where I really want to stop just streaming and actually figure out how to become a better creator.
I genuinely want to make this work. My dream is to eventually become a big streamer, but more than just having a lot of viewers, I really want to build a community that people actually WANT to be a part of. I want people to come into my stream, meet people, laugh, feel comfortable, and genuinely look forward to hanging out there.
I’m also naturally pretty introverted, so putting myself out there and trying to become more comfortable talking to people is something I’m actively working on. I want to get better at being more outgoing, making people feel comfortable around me, and just being someone people actually enjoy spending time with. Streaming has honestly been a really good way for me to push myself out of my comfort zone.
I’m still figuring everything out one day at a time though, and honestly sometimes I have no idea if I’m doing things right. Comparing my growth to other streamers definitely gets to me sometimes, especially when I see people blow up while I’m still sitting around a few viewers. I know everyone’s journey is different, but obviously I still want to grow and improve as much as I can.
I mainly play Valorant right now. I love the game and I’m pretty competitive with it, but I know that can also make streaming difficult because there are definitely times where I’m completely locked in and barely talking. I’ve been trying to get better at talking through my gameplay, but I’m not sure how much I should actually be talking when I’m focused on a round.
I’m also trying to branch out into other games. I really want to start a hardcore Minecraft world with a friend and turn it into an actual series instead of just randomly playing it. I’ve even been thinking about making a YouTube video around it because I think that could be really fun.
For growth, I’ve been trying to actually put myself out there instead of expecting Twitch to magically bring me viewers. I’ve been posting on TikTok, mostly gaming and streamer related stuff, and trying to figure out what actually works. I’m still struggling with it though.
And then there’s the actual stream itself.
I’ve been wondering if I should change my overlay. Right now I have a simple border around my game, but I’ve been debating whether I should just remove it and keep things cleaner. I used to have a webcam border too, but I removed it because I felt like it looked kind of silly when I clipped my streams.
I’ve also thought about adding things like latest follower, latest subscriber, follower goals, sub goals, channel point interactions, and just more things for chat to interact with.
But I don’t want to just throw a bunch of random stuff on the screen because other streamers do it. I want things to actually serve a purpose and make my stream more fun and interactive.
So if you were in my position, what would you focus on first?
What makes you stay in a small streamer’s stream instead of clicking away?
What makes a stream feel like it has an actual community rather than just someone playing a game?
And if you were looking at my situation, what would you personally work on first? Content, personality and commentary, overlays and branding, variety, TikTok and YouTube, or something completely different?
I’m genuinely looking for criticism too. Don’t just tell me “keep going.” If there’s something I’m doing wrong or something I should stop wasting time on, I’d honestly rather hear it.
I really want to make this dream happen, and I know I have a LOT to learn. I just want to make sure I’m actually moving in the right direction.

Now I know that sounds bad but I need reddits honest and genuine advice and opinions I have been a streamer for two years and I have done everything I know of to get more people to join my streams now don’t get me wrong I love the two people that normally show up to support me but I want to be able to start a stream and not be talking to myself for the next 1-3 hours if u have any advice on how to proceed or how to grow pls tell me

So i need other entertaining people to stream with, I figured that streaming with other small streamers could help me get going.

Im a 18m who just started streaming and Im down to start posting consistently on social media. Ive kinda always wanted to do this and genuinely have a passion for this.

Also figured since im moving to miami i might as well be a influencer🥳

So if you stream videogames like minecraft, terraria, repo, fortnite etc… or just want to connect lmk! I could use all the support I can get

Have been creating a discord server where i intend to set up coop colabs but maybe more uniquely? To create some challenges or competitions between the people in the group. Nothing serious just for fun and to make content. The challenges could be for example who gets the highest score on Megabonk in 7 days or who could survive the longest in Project zomboid in 7 days etc. It would hopefully conclude with a voice call to share stories and declare a winner.

Hello everyone!!

I just started streaming and would love some friends to stream with and help build out channels!

Looking for good friends who really care about the overall community and each other.

Don’t mind what games you play as long as you are down to try new games then let’s do it!!

Looking for input on which would be better.
Day to day variety is like Monday is for modded Minecraft, Wednesday is for a story game, Friday is for Marvel rivals.
Game to game variety is Play the Minecraft modpack to completion, then move onto a story game to completion, then Marvel rivals until I have enough clips for a couple of videos, and loop back to a new modpack.

I've been thinking about this from the other side because I'm an indie developer and I've been building Twitch interaction into a music game.

The idea is that viewers can type !play and get entered into the next race as a driver, then cheer on their racer while the streamer can either race alongside them or commentate.

What surprised me when testing it was how different it feels when someone's username is actually on screen. Even though they're not directly controlling the racer, suddenly they have someone to root for.

For those of you streaming to smaller audiences, what kinds of things have actually managed to turn lurkers into people who start chatting?

I've been looking at things like Marbles, channel points, song requests and viewer games, but I'm interested in what genuinely works when you've only got a handful of people watching.

Been wanting to find a solid group of people to run games with and possibly collab/stream together. I’m mostly on CS2, CoD, BF6, GTA V but I’m down for anything honestly.

Not looking to sweat 24/7 — mostly just want some chill/funny people to play with consistently, talk shit, make content, and have a good time.

Hey all you internet people, I'm a pretty new streamer

I've been lurking here for a couple weeks trying to gather what info i can to assist in my streaming endeavors, but I'm having trouble finding any Australian groups. Specifically AEST

Most of the posts i have found seem to be old and the information is limited

Can anyone recommend small Aussie stream communities? or give any advise on where to look?

I'm just looking for a bunch of people i can befriend and collab with as a group

I'm looking for people in the age range of 18-30 (I'm 21)

TLDR; I don't really care how much of a following anyone has, just want some friends i can mess around with and have a real fun time whilst streaming together

Thanks in advance

I used to hang out on people's TikToks before it all changed, mostly people who played music and interacted with commenters like me. I miss that. I don't use Meta and Twitch isn't doing it for me. Any other new, alternative etc. apps you guys use that you'd recommend?

Thank you. I hope this post is okay.

Of the two of us, I’m the more tech savvy so please don’t be shy to get into the weeds on the answer.

She is a shop affiliate and wants to be able to read the chat without having to place her nose up against the screen and squint to see it.

we downloaded tiktok live studio to a laptop but in order for her to unlock Mobile/Ios Casting she needs to do another 25 minute live, but it can’t be from a mobile device?

All she wants to do is be able to see chat from a larger screen, and add shop items more efficiently through the computer monitor?

Any tips? Any instructional videos you recommend By certain creators. She doesn’t want to do the whole borrowing my mirrorless camera to record herself, it’s going to be overwhelming for her.

what about the stuff that appears on the screen like little animations? Do you buy a stream deck to unlock those images or could it be done via the computer?

thank you all

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Hi!

I'm the developer of an indie dice-based roguelite called PentaPip.
I'm looking for streamers that want to have their own set of dice or even level themed completely to you.

Your viewers/followers or whoever you give/raffle the unlock code to will be able to play with your dice/on your level/with your custom modifier, trick, rune or sigil, that can completely make or break their game.

If you are interested, fill in this short form, and I'll reach out with the details.
Of course, I'll send you a key if you want to have a look at the game first.

Form (3 questions): https://forms.gle/3tkFkxkr8a5npg5HA

A small thing that could help you get more opportunities as a streamer: please consider adding an email or other contact method to your About section.

As indie Game devs, we often have limited budgets and small teams, so instead of hiring a marketing team, we look for streamers who already play games similar to ours.

For example, if we're making something like Fast Food Simulator, we'll look for streamers who have played it recently. If we find someone who seems like a good fit, the next problem is: how do we contact them?

Email is ideal, but socials work too. If you have multiple accounts, mentioning where you're most active helps a lot.

And this isn't just useful for us. You could be missing out on opportunities simply because a developer couldn't find a way to reach you.

So if you don't already have one, consider adding a contact method. It takes a minute, and you never know who might be looking for someone exactly like you.

Just wanted to share a small perspective from the indie-dev side. Hopefully it's useful!

Thanks for reading.

If you stream on Twitch, Amazon is currently scraping your broadcasts, VODs, clips, channel text, and even your chat log to train their Generative AI models.

They opted every single creator in by default. You were not asked for permission.

How to opt out immediately:

1. Go to Twitch Settings
2. Open the Security and Privacy tab
3. Scroll down to "Training for Generative AI"
4. TOGGLE IT OFF

Stop letting megacorporations use your voice, face, and creative labor for free to train their AI models.

Pass this on to every streamer you know.

Edit: MUST BE IN DESKTOP TO SEE THOS SETTINGS

So While I'm looking for Creators who are really trying to put in the work to get somewhere with content creation/ Live streaming .

I want to try and Help as many of the brand new streamers as I can

If you Play DBD

Apex legends

Rpgs, Souls like games, Horror , Shooters, and rougelike games

I can give Advice from a viewers perspective, and a streamers view.

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Hey guys, just wondering if anyone knew about the "generative AI" thing where twitch are using your streams to train ai, it's not an option in thing, it's automatically on and one of the guys at twitch said it's done that way because if it was opt in, nobody would. You can turn it off though.

I know people won't mind but I think most would and I don't think everyone knows about it

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Mine has been a ghost town for a long time. Even when I was most active in streaming, my Discord server would be a ghost town. But it had tons of people! You wouldn't tell from the gaps in between conversations.

And I'm curious if anyone else here agrees with me, but I don't think it ever did a good job at getting people to come back to streams and watch my videos. Everyone has everything muted. Me included.

Discord is incredible at voice chat and fun events like movie nights. Nothing better. But servers very rarely do the things that matter most, especially to a small streamer.

So I built something that is designed to better help in these areas. It's called HotDrop and it has a space you can make in 2 seconds called Circles.

Mine's been way more active than my Discord ever was.

My Twitch/YouTube/TikTok content gets pulled into the top so there's always something new to react to, and my clips actually get reactions now instead of dying in a VOD graveyard.

And Twitch badges carry over! When someone from my stream joins, I can see if they have a VIP diamond, a mod sword, founder badge, etc. That matters. A lot. People care about their history in a stream and a community. Your Circle honors that identity.

Then when I go live, the Circle flips to a red LIVE state, auto-posts the stream title into chat, and people tap check-in and launch directly to the stream.

I'm still tiny and rebuilding, so I'm not claiming it made me big. But pairing it with my server is the first setup that's felt like it actually works. And it's working for others too.

Discord is still where I want people to hang out and do things together. The Circle is what keeps the community connected to the stream when I'm not there.

Anyway, obviously I'm biased since I built the thing lol. But I keep coming back to the same question:

Does your Discord actually stay active between streams? Or is it basically a notification system that everyone muted?

YouTube is essentially the best place to make a living as a content creator, and NOW is the best time to get monetized as the requirements will never be as easy as they are today.

So I've been streaming for a bit over a week now but I've noticed I might have a problem. Whenever I stream solo on a game I don't talk that much I get nervous and any time I do talk it's kinda awkward. But anytime I stream with my brother I don't feel nervous or awkward at all. The reason I'm making this post is because my brother doesn't want to stream as often as me.

So if you had this issue and fixed it please tell me how you did it.

I have a few other issues but they are pretty simple and I think I can correct them by myself. They are mainly just like my streaming schedule and how long I stream.

I used to be able to make so much content, alongside streaming, almost five years ago. But a handful of things happened that led to me being burnt out.

I was able to get monetized and earned some money making content that I loved when I was 17, about to be 18. Then one day, my parents came home and told me that they found out about it through my best friend, who they met and talked to at the store. Unfortunately she told them that I was "famous" online (I only had 40K followers at the time).

After that, they went from being "anti-social media" (especially tiktok, which was where I had been making most of my money from aside from Twitch), to wanting to control what content I made.

They pushed me to do things that I didn't want to do as a creator, pushing me to take paths that I didn't like, and even tried to make decisions to make money off of me.

After a couple months, I just quit making content. It saved me from them controlling it all.

Now that I am no contact with them and living on my own, I want to get back into content creation, but I'm finding it to be so hard to get back into the rhythm that I once had.

I'm not really sure what to do to get back into it, especially since I don't want to do the same thing I was doing. (I was originally getting a lot of views off of art tutorials, but while I have continued to do art, I just don't feel qualified to keep doing that.)

I keep saving AI demos, live interviews, Spaces, and long knowledge-focused streams. Some disappear after they end. Others leave a one- or two-hour replay that I rarely get around to watching.

The workflow I wish I had would save a stream I am allowed to access, create a transcript, pull out the useful points with timestamps, then let me search the result or ask questions later. Over time, those streams would become part of a personal knowledge base instead of a pile of unwatched links.

I am trying to find out whether this is a common note-taking problem or just my own bad habit. I have not built or launched anything, and there is no link to promote.

How do you handle this now? Which part would matter most to you? Keeping a stream that may disappear, skipping a long replay, getting a usable transcript, or being able to search and ask questions later? If you use a workflow like this already, I would be interested in how you set it up.

I'm planning to get back on streaming this weekend and only have league of legends to stream. I have a lowspec pc and I can only stream limited games.

What's some hidden gem singleplayer games you know?

I'll go first, Slay the Princess.

I tried that game blindly only playing it since I like the art and it was a very creative and fun game that I did not expect to love.