How To Grow On Twitch in 2020 - 0 To 25 Viewers In 60 Days!

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Published 2020-07-29
Growing on Twitch is difficult, and people give a lot of different advice so today I am going to give you tips to grow your first 25 average viewers on Twitch and to keep them coming back, otherwise known as a growing a community.

I used these tips to grow my average viewers from 0 to 25 in just 60 days on Twitch.

These tips work for people with 0 viewers and can be used to grow on Twitch, I'll be talking about a few growth strategies:

1. Doing something unique to grow on other platforms
2. What games are best for growth on Twitch
3. How to create a clickable thumbnail for your stream
4. How to encourage viewers to follow your stream, then come back next stream.

I promise I will show you exactly how I used these tips myself to grow on Twitch.

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🕘Timestamps:

0:00 Video Start!
0:37 - Introduction and How I reached 25 average viewers in 60 days
1:40 - Why You Shouldn't Start A Youtube Channel To Grow On Twitch
3:12 - How I Used A Unique Idea To Grow My First 5 Viewers on Twitch
5:27 - How to advertise without advertising, bring real value.
5:45 - How Long Did I Stream For To Grow?
7:30 - What Should You Do Instead Of Youtube
7:51 - What Game Is Best For Growth On Twitch?
8:45 - Why You Shouldn't Play High Viewer Games With Low Average Viewers
9:50 - How To Get Recommended on the Twitch Homepage
10:20 - How To Tell If A Game is Good For Growth Using Twitchtracker
10:50 - How To Use Category Followers To Tell If A Game Is Good For Twitch
13:14 - How To Create A Clickable Thumbnail for your Twitch Stream
14:30 - Where To Position Your Camera on Your Twitch Stream For Clicks
14:40 - How To Write A Clickable Title For Your Twitch Stream
16:10 - How To Brand Yourself For Average Viewer Growth on Twitch
16:45 - Why Streamers Theme Their Streams and Channel Points
17:25 - The Worst Thing That Can Happen When Viewers Join
17:50 - How To Make Viewers Follow Your Channel
18:10 - How To Make Viewers Return To Your Stream
18:40 - How To Host Community Events
18:50 - Creating A Consistent Schedule For Your Community
19:20 - Create A Discord For Your Community When You're Offline
19:40 - How To Think Critically About Your Stream To Grow

How To Choose a game for Twitch Growth

Personally, I think too many people rely on looking at the top games by viewers on Twitch to pick what they play, because I think there is a much better number.

Category Followers. These are the people who have hit follow on a category or game, and if someone has done that they are pretty much going to get recommended on their homepage that category. They’ll also get recommended other categories they like watching, but you can’t see that number.

An example, Stardew Valley a game I got a lot of growth in when I started, took me from 10 avg to 20 avg, has 798,000 followers, an incredibly active community who love it religiously, it still gets updates, has npc’s that are chatty so it's good for smaller streamers with less twitch chat to respond to, but it only averages at 500 - 800 total viewers and you only need 5 viewers to appear in the top 3 rows.

The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.

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All Comments (21)
  • @StreamScheme
    This is a pretty big video, but I promise it has real practical advice about how I grew from 0 - 25 viewers in 60 days! I have added timecodes below, and I've been very specific about it so you can find things you want again. I hope this helps, if you disagree with anything then feel free to comment below! If it helps, also let me know! If you want to join our tiny but growing community check out our other content: bit.ly/JoinTheStreamScheme 🕘Timestamps: 0:37 - Introduction and How I reached 25 average viewers in 60 days 1:40 - Why You Shouldn't Start A Youtube Channel To Grow On Twitch 3:12 - How I Used A Unique Idea To Grow My First 5 Viewers on Twitch 5:27 - How to advertise without advertising, bring real value. 5:45 - How Long Did I Stream For To Grow? 7:30 - What Should You Do Instead Of Youtube 7:51 - What Game Is Best For Growth On Twitch? 8:45 - Why You Shouldn't Play High Viewer Games With Low Average Viewers 9:50 - How To Get Recommended on the Twitch Homepage 10:20 - How To Tell If A Game is Good For Growth Using Twitchtracker 10:50 - How To Use Category Followers To Tell If A Game Is Good For Twitch 13:14 - How To Create A Clickable Thumbnail for your Twitch Stream 14:30 - Where To Position Your Camera on Your Twitch Stream For Clicks 14:40 - How To Write A Clickable Title For Your Twitch Stream 16:10 - How To Brand Yourself For Average Viewer Growth on Twitch 16:45 - Why Streamers Theme Their Streams and Channel Points 17:25 - The Worst Thing That Can Happen When Viewers Join 17:50 - How To Make Viewers Follow Your Channel 18:10 - How To Make Viewers Return To Your Stream 18:40 - How To Host Community Events 18:50 - Creating A Consistent Schedule For Your Community 19:20 - Create A Discord For Your Community When You're Offline 19:40 - How To Think Critically About Your Stream To Gro
  • @KatrinaBuno
    This is the most real advice. I’ve been affiliate for 30 days and after following your tips, I have 233 followers, 52 subbies and 18-25 average viewers (peaks anywhere from 27-36 views). You are soooo helpful. I’ve gotten to know so many people and although it starts to get hard to remember everyone, it’s super fun to make connections. Thank you!❤️
  • @palemoon2271
    At least the title is more specific and realistic. I can tell its going gonna be a good video
  • "Those who think they can and those who think they can't, are both usually right"
  • @tomparbrook5448
    You aren’t that big but people need to see your stuff I think this is great content my guy
  • @ColonelClanny
    I for myself appreciate the matter of fact that you get straight to the point, no hesitations, no 3 year intros, immediate disclaimer, and get rolling. Thumbs up Stream Scheme!
  • @aligennexyt6876
    Remember y'all make sure to ignore the viewer count, it'll make you nervous and production quality will go down, you'll get viewers eventually just keep trying! You can turn off you viewer count by clicking the number and it'll look like this: --, instead of having your viewer count
  • @Quallsy
    My man flamed alpha gaming in the first ten seconds😂
  • @yuvaldamti973
    the fact that he liked and replied to every comment is showing that he acutally cares about building a comunity
  • @bigtasty3317
    fun fact: before watching this video, I had 200+ followers and zero subs. After? My average is increasing steadily and my cactus theme is becoming more recognizable. God bless you sir :)
  • @Ginger2996
    Legitimately one of the best videos I watched before I started streaming. Just wanted to come back and say a massive thank you for all the tips and help that you provided in this video. I took the advice you presented and went from a 1 viewer Andy to having an awesome little community all because I took the time to actually follow these tips. Your tips on discoverability and community building were especially helpful and have become a staple of my channel. Thank you so much for the help and here's to the future for us all. :)
  • @mairao
    This is THE video every small streamer should be watching, imo. You were genuinely helping and not just presenting tricks that work in the short term only. If we look at all of the advice, they are very logical. Should almost be common sense, really. I guess they are not because of two things you mentioned: wanting to grow fast + not critically analyzing one's own work. Those hinder growth for many. I'm glad I'm already doing some of the things you mentioned. The consistency is the major issue, but there's only so much I can do while having a job and a family with children. Thank you for the video 😃
  • @MichaelPorcayo
    A stream tips video that actually says something different. I love it.
  • @MudanTV
    Purely clicked on this because it felt like you knew what you were talking about from the title and you didn't disappoint. Nice!
  • @gamingxrelic
    Naming your streams after puns is such a good tip! I personally do this with most of my streams and every time I do, someone comes in chat and asks me about it. It helps encourage chat and bring new people in.
  • @sunny-ub2gb
    I love how you don't recommend gimmicky methods. You're very straightforward and realistic! Very helpful :)
  • @henfc456
    Can we just appreciate he loved and replied to everyone comment. That’s what a call a legend! Good advice. I am now inspired to be myself and go for it streaming!
  • @trentbryant7783
    Hey Eljay, first off, thank you so much for the hard work and effort that you put into teaching us how to become better streamers, and creators as a whole. I took your advice on trying something different and have always been interested in a career within the gaming industry, and have had a passive interest in creative/narrative writing. So I took the experience that I had with writing through my academic studies and turned my Subnautica playthrough into a creative writing series on the blog that I started in tandem with it. I have shared it around to a few communities on Reddit that I thought would be interested and have received such positive feedback and awesome engagement! So thank you for giving me a bit of a shove to get going, because I have found something that I am incredibly passionate about doing and even if streaming doesn't lead anywhere, I feel that it has helped me grow in many new ways, both personally and professionally. Cheers man.
  • @jamiedoesthings
    I've been watching your videos for a while to get tips while starting out, but I'm finally properly delving in now I'm focusing on my channel. For a little context, I started around 9 months ago as a hobby, reached affiliate a few months ago, now just over 150 followers and 15 average viewers. I love it more and more with each stream, so now's the time to improve for myself and my viewers! I really enjoy how your videos focus on creative ways to engage and connect with viewers. Honestly, you couldn't pay me not to do it, and I definitely never think of it as a means to an end, but it really is the best thing about twitch to meet new friends, hang out with them (in my stream, theirs, or mutual friends') and get told something I did was really creative or really made them laugh. So I love the very first tip in the video, and I've been mulling it over all day. I'm not trying to reach my first few viewers, so it's probably not something I'd "need" to do, but it sounds like a blast. I'm trying to think of how to adapt something similar for what I do (variety to be fair - language study streams, games, art, etc). If I come up with a fun spin on it, I'll let you and the channel know :) Definitely think I'll implement the tip to reiterate to my mods and regulars that it's super important to me to greet new people, ask my 'new chatter' question, answer any questions, etc. It's extremely important to me, and I've even seen some channels with channel values alongside channel rules in a panel, which I might do too.