Stream Key Podcast: Engaging Viewers On Twitch (4)

Engaging Viewers on Twitch Link

1. Don’t overdo it when you start, to avoid being overwhelmed.
2. Gamer_Dad guest is a Creative streamer. Gaming figurines. He streamed to unwind and relax. Making figurines while his friends chat. How to get viewers to return back to your channel.
3. Guest mentioned tutorial part regarding figurines, music.
4. How to engage when game is loading. Ex. You can give a recap of what happened before, summarize.
5. Song requests can help, with theme songs. If you get correct theme song, straw polls, he gives out points for being involved.
6. Rewards given out for suggesting ideas/requests.
7. Having a schedule--if you’re following a channel and you don’t know when they’ll be on, you’ll go to another stream. He also has a fan choice Friday.
8. Wednesdays nights are increasing as he has tutorial type stream about painting and such. Showed how to do shortcuts, etc and he included collaborators.
9. Inspired by Flixter--streamer helps Creative streamers.
10. Gaming is more relaxing something he looks forward to in Tuesday, then refreshed on Wednesday for the painting, which is eye straining.
11. Networking--when you add new viewers from host/raid, how can you help people stick around? “Be a human being” and just chat, be social and friendly, instead of just saying thanks for the raid. He acknowledges the raider and then the members. Be welcoming and call out their names when you see them in chat.
12. Lachhh Tools--transparent overlay over OBS. Visual stimuli.
13. More you chat, the more your points you can get so you can win stuff later. Win custom things he made.
14. He lost 1 viewer, and humbly asked what happened, and found out it was from the distractions which helped such as TV in background.
15. Mistakes:
16. Calling out lurkers
17. Too many games in chat with the bots
18. Outside distractions could sometimes hurt you--baby monitor but his loyal viewers understand he’s a father. Another example TV in the background.
19. If you have 1 to 2 viewers, you don’t put in effort, but you must make sure it’s like you have 1000 (use post-its to block viewer numbers)
20. Single most important advice: Pay attention to the chat, even if you just have 1 or 2 viewers. He has seen streamers not even say hi to the one viewer who chat. Act as if you have 1000 viewers. If you have no comments, keep looking at chat and keep talking.
21. Don’t let Twitch overtake you, if you don’t want to stream, then take a break, re-evaluate. Make sure it’s still fun for you.

Q/A:

• Host is curious about what he looks forward to in 2018: Guest is curious about Monster Hunter: World! Wants to get back into Ark.
• What do you use in games in chat--he uses streamlab chatbox. Slots and Heist.
• Some of his mods troll him intentionally, inside jokes.
• Video editing, too much time for guest since he’s a father.
• He couldn’t paint one day, so he played video games instead, explained why. He says don’t cut your stream unless emergencies.
• Heavy metal--would it drive people away? He says no if it’s a music theme. Must watch chat to see the response.
• Guest finds that theme, or free for all are equally good because you’re not sure if everyone’s into that particular theme.
• You’re playing an indie game that you committed to a developer, views plummeted. You can limit this game once a week, but you should play it b/c of the commitment.

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