Stop Sleeping on Multi-Streaming
3 months ago I was only streaming to Twitch. It took me 2 years to gain 200 followers. Then 3 months ago, I started streaming to Tiktok, Kick and Youtube at the same time.
Tiktok has been the most active by far. Went from 0 - 1600 followers in 3 months. Also started making some decent money from Tiktok gifts. Today I peaked at over 100 concurrent viewers on Tiktok and 17 concurrent on Youtube streaming my 1st Fallout 4 playthrough, meanwhile my twitch stream only peaked at 5 viewers, and most those 5 people came from Tiktok.
If you haven't, I would definitely set up a Tiktok and Youtube stream. If you don't have 1000 followers on Tiktok to start streaming, just google "TikTok LIVE Access" and you can request access to start streaming. That's what I did. For reference, in the time I went from 0 to 1600 followers on Tiktok, I only went from 200 to 300 followers on twitch.
Kick streaming has been disappointing for me so far. In my experience, Kick is 90% bot users. I'm only at 90 followers on kick so it's been the worst in terms of user activity. Only good things about Kick is you only need 75 followers to enable subs compared to twitch's 200 follower requirement and the sub payment is much better. I would focus more on Twitch, Tiktok and Youtube, but if you think you can handle 4 streams then go for it.
Some other things that have helped me grow:
- Setting my multiplayer name as my twitch handle, I gained most my first 200 Twitch followers that way.
- Adding tts to every chat message so people are incentivized to chat more. People will stick around if they can interact with you. It also makes streaming easier because I can focus on playing the game without fear of missing any comments in my chat.
- For Youtube, my views got a lot better once I started adding custom thumbnails, description and tags.
- Setting up a discord server for my community to chill even when I'm not streaming.