@@zer0_ceil chat in other people's streams and once you have a bit more of a following then reach out, for security reasons people don't network with tiny channels (not always about clout, just safety & whatnot so don't get offended, it is what it is) and host community events or engage in trends (not all trends click so do some research before you hop on em, they don't always mesh with your brand/personality).
The problem I felt watching live streaming on both platforms is that RU-vid feels cold. Twitch feels like I'm entering the streamers room and hanging out with friends. It's cosy. RU-vid had so much video spam all around me while viewing that it just felt like watching any other RU-vid content and very distracting and impersonal. They need to make a different looking visual layout for Live Streaming, so it doesn't look exactly like RU-vid when you enter the room, even though it is. Just like how you entered different rooms in this video. Make it warm and personal when you enter someone's Live stream space.
I agree. The recommendations on the stream are not helpful. But they kinda dont wanna get rid of that, because if anything if you switch to another video, you stay on the platform, which is their main goal. A big thing would be the theatre mode for streams being better with chat on the site implemented. Right now chat is kinda lost, which is a big thing for any streamer ofc.
Your videos always happen to be recommended to me at the right moments. Kind of scary how that happens actually... I really enjoy how transparent you are with this information and you don't have "the secret sauce" behind a paywall. All of your videos are extremely easily digestible too. Keep up the great work and thank you for the inspiration!
I’m a mental health coach for my day job and when I started letting people know about that business during my live streams it immediately dwarfed what I was making from streaming. Off platform monetization is FANTASTIC and it also allows you to not get so caught up in the numbers of your stream when things aren’t going quite as well.
Would really love a comprehensive video on ways to sell merch. You making your own product vs POD, comparing the pros and cons of ALL the different sites (I never see anything on teespring), building your own shop, or partnering with a company. And at what point each option is right for you and your product, and when the expenses vs profits vs time tip the scales.
Great video! A possible suggestion for a future video: could you go through and describe all of the right "settings" within the "Go Live" tab on RU-vid? Things like "language and captions certification" and "recording date and location", should I be filling these things out before I go live? Would doing that potentially increase the reach of my broadcast? How many "tags" should I be using? Made for kids vs. not made for kids, should I allow automatic chapters? All of that stuff. Thanks and love your videos!
i'm a reptile youtuber and i'm struggling coming up with ideas for off-site revenue. I dont know what i could offer, i tried some of the estsablished things (patreon for example), but nothing works. I have to do something reptile related, but i can't compete with massive corporations products for reptiles!
This seems kinda random but I loved the mix between informative content and totally unrelated footage that you did with this video. It seemed even more personal than your typical videos.
❤ I’m setting up my first streaming set up and your videos have been beyond helpful and you sort of give the viewers a , welcome to the family feel , Thanks 🙏🏼 , this is a high five.
StreamElements and StreamLabs are another donation method a ton of Twitch streamers I watch use. RU-vid creators could use it as well. I believe they don't even take a cut of the donations, so more goes to the streamer. They also have integrations that allow these donations to post stream notifications, messages, alerts, sounds, etc. Since it is currently October, a lot of streamers are offering "jump scare" donation alerts at a certain dollar amount, often 6.66 dollars for the meme.
Isn't that just the donations? He mentioned that and said PayPal takes a cut. And the integrated sound alerts take a huge portion of your profit. I would recommend setting up your own donor alerts to through streamerbot
I'm laying down the ground work for a custom PCs company. (yes, I know that business is INCREDIBLY hard to get into, and incredibly hard to do well in, but there's only like 5 major brands, and I want a cut of that pie)
Cool, hope you are successful! But btw if ya even wanna make a sponsorship deal with a larger youtuber, hit me up! Like a Gentoo Gamer spec preset n me promoting it lol idk.
My man...This was a great vid! I've been playing the balancing game between purple and red for a while now, and after getting some info here, and new links, I think i'm going all red. Thanks bruv!
Here's a question, how do Creators figure out what an appropriate amount is to charge for sponsor spots, etc? Is that b a trial-and-error sort of thing, or is there an industry standard based on views that nobody really talks about?
I love the way you change the shots in to less typical perfect ones and it yet it still looks so good and works. Really inspiring to see it done like this.
As a small creator... The big reason I still consider YT my second choice, is that I can make some money (even if it's not much) from Twitch... But until I get to a certain point, which even 2 years in I'm not yet close to, I just can't make money on YT.🤷 Also YT really wants a different experience from VoDs for the most part... Highly edited videos, Shorts, etc pay off the most with a small audience of YT subscribers. I've made way more Subscribers on YT for 'extra' content than my bread & butter streams. Which sucks if your a streamer first. Maybe it would be different if I streamed on YT, but even if I did I'd make zero money from YT and a irregular flow from Twitch and I have more twice the audience on Twitch to YT. I'd love to try out YT again, but until I manage to reach monetized status on YT I can't see it working for me...
One thing you forgot to mention with the twitch sub split. The top streamers will still have 70/30 up to 100k then after $100k is made it'll go to a 50/50 split
They have to break every contract to do a 50/50 split I mean not a single person in their right mind would break a contract that says they're getting paid 70/30 and go to a 50/50 split it breaks the terms and service of the contract which makes the contract none and void in a state of law
Not anymore about the $2.50. Last time we got way less revenue than months before. The subs international prices were drastically reduced. I got an email fro twitch stating that on some places the subs prices could be just $1 dollar and all the fees charges are taken before that 50/50 split, so on that situation our cut could be of $35 cents (that’s crazy!!) I’m very disappointed at twitch it is not worth it anymore.
Ack that's so true! I usually just half my sub revenue for a stream to roughly calculate how much I've made, But that's certainly not always true. Thanks for the reminder that twitch is bananas!!
Could you set up a creator payment service? 50/50? first £100? then gets lower.. Also a shopping link service purely on a % basis.. Maybe an all in one service that's global.. BTW have a few lights that are brightness & rgb adjustable pointing up on top of the bars..
Dude I’ll literally get on twitch, click a stream, get bombarded by like 5 unskippable ads AT THE VERY BEGINNING. like bro, at that point I just close twitch and go watch something else.
Hi Harris, Nice video. There are few things I think different since this year, specially ads on Twitch. The revenue came from it is what make me able to keep streaming and getting profit. However, I changed from livestream only to a re-run with reward system + live stream. I see I lost the feeling of community a little, as it runs 24x7, but the incoming with ads or sponsored lives (that I can keep running for 1 to 7 days), makes it viable to keep streaming. Do you have any study about twitch re-run to share to us?
I don't like the integration of doing something else unrelated while trying to explain Making Money on RU-vid and Twitch. It's very distracting and loses my attention in the video. A lot of these home projects spliced with Media videos are very distracting. I prefer the older content format.
@13:22 That is some thick drywall! Did you double up on 5/8" to help with sound? How well did that work? I've only ever seen this done with a layer of green glue between each drywall sheet and I've always wondered if that was necessary, or if just two thick sheets raised the STC enough that the extra expense of green glue simply wasn't necessary.
i have seen someone do the 500 buck membership tier as a joke. the issue was, it was an agency vtuber and you NEVER bait agency vtuber fans that way, they will call your bluff. I believe they called the tier "glucose guardian"
Thank you for the information! We are a small and growing anime and Japanese culture based YT channel. We are looking to expand our brand and business in this next upcoming year. We appreciate all the tips and tricks you are willing to share!
Hey one question: Besides all the stuff you have to do in this business. How exactly do you get sponsors. Have you people work for you or do you search them? Or do they just ask you if you want to advertise for them?
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Something you said before that would bring twitch donation culture to yt. Just add a free membership with youtube premium. Without increasing the price tho.
I see heavy influences from Casey Neistat, not that it's a bad thing, but after watching him a lot it becomes apparent in so many content creators work. But also it gets a bit boring. Never before would that scene from Fightclub come to my mind more often, then when I watch todays social media. Everything has become a copy of a copy of a copy... I think I watched a cool video about culture referncing itself somewhere too. We can't help it, it's the way it is, but man do I wish there was more original work out there.
I'm starting to belive that you are suffering with hair loss like some of us are 😂 We should start a club! i started at age 22 when my daughter was born!
i started this week glad i found ur videos its really helpful ill start streaming soon getting everything ready thanks for the help wish u best of luck 🤞🤞❤❤
Interesting as always (I've watched your previous stuff on this, but the refresher is great! Those lights though! You finally did them and MAN do they look good! Cannot wait to see the room finished.
This was a great well explained video!! I have battled with where I want to stream and Im like on both although I would like to stay on youtube. But the 1000 sub minimum for members is hard to reach with a full time job and not a lot of time for videos. Merch store would be so damn cool... One day maybe it will be a reality! Everyone don't stop grinding!!
Thanks for this! I am really hoping to find a way to allow viewers to drastically change my streaming environment through donations (from changing light colors to activating simple moving electronics). Just got to unlock Monetization first XD
@@Artbug Good idea. Thank you. Don't know why I've been dragging my feet on creating a donation method for so long, but I really should just set it up by now.
Love your videos. Have to say that first. While I like RU-vid, cause I've streamed there before, I had to move to Twitch because I live in The Bahamas, which is not a country that is on RU-vid's list of countries eligible for monetization. This means that even if I make the 1000 subscribers, I CANNOT receive the benefits of all the things that RU-vid has to offer for streamers. I've been wanting to talk to someone at RU-vid about this. I've tweeted, emailed, instagramed, etc. I can't get ahold of someone at RU-vid who can tell me what our country needs to do in order to be eligible for monetization. I even made videos on my channel about this and tagged RU-vid in it. This is why I had no choice but to move to Twitch. Because even though Twitch is getting all this heat, they're the only ones paying.
It’s funny you’re doing electrical work while making this video because I’ve recently decided to go to Trade School and become an Electrician while still doing content creation in my free time.
YES SIR! All around I also believe RU-vid is the better platform to start streaming on over Twitch for absolute beginners. So many options to grow an live stream audience all in one place. But still I think Facebook is THE place people starting from 0 should at least give a try. It's still hot over there and easier to get discovered. Restreaming is always an option too 🙏🏾
I'll admit I haven't been through all of your videos on the subject yet, but on the off-chance there isn't one, could you teach us how to make highlight reels for our channel? I've never made videos before, but I really want to learn-and you do such a good job of incorporating different learning styles into your teaching that I know it would make sense coming from you.
I don't think he has made one on highlights, and - I hate to be that guy but - it's really easy, there's no trick to it. You're just making bite-sized pieces of your stream that people watch... Even less than your vods. Highlights are just big clips. What I do is stream with RU-vid videos in mind so I know certain sections of my stream will make a decent yt vid. After stream I take a few minutes to clip out one or two. Then use them for RU-vid, either posting as is, or with light editing. If you want a guide, I bet someone like StreamScheme would have made a vid on it.
Im actually making more money from Ad's them Sub's on Twitch, and am consistantly making more money every month......on Twitch, I have 3998 hours and 978 more follows togo for RU-vid lol
Your last point about making "REAL money" is BANG ON. If you look at a RU-vid channel from a business point of view, its basically a low-cost distribution channel. If a suitably large channel leverages that kind of distribution (read: subscribers) along with a relevant product, its a great way to make money.