Hi, this is Dustin from Streamlabs.
Today I'm going to show you how to set up
and run a merch giveaway using Streamlabs
OBS.
Giveaways are a great way to engage your community,
promote your brand through your merch, and
keep your viewers coming back for more.
To get started, you’re going to want to
open up Streamlabs OBS or Streamlabs.com and
go to the Giveaways tab located on your Dashboard.
Let’s start a giveaway by clicking “Add
Giveaway”, you’ll see the options for
‘merch’ or ‘custom’.
Custom allows you to name a non-merch item,
like some artwork you created or a game code.
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to set
up a merch giveaway using a merch item we’ve
already created.
If you haven’t created a merch item yet--do
this step first.
Check out a link to the merch tutorial video
in the description where you can learn how
to do this step in just a minute.
Once you have a merch item created for the
giveaway, select it.
In the settings you can also change things
like the timer and permissions.
Let’s have our giveaway run for an hour
and change permissions so that only subscribers
and moderators can enter.
We can now name the giveaway.
Under advanced settings you can also change
a couple options.
You can require that only followers may win,
and also give bonus chances for subscribers
to win.
Let’s enable followers and give 3 extra
tickets for each subscriber entry.
Now we can click “Add”
Back on the Giveaway menu, before starting
our giveaway, let’s check out the settings.
The giveaway is conducted through Streamlabs
in your chat, and you will need to make sure
you mod ‘Streamlabs’.
In Twitch you can do this by going to your
channel and typing “/mod Streamlabs”.
You can tailor the messages for the giveaway
commands in the settings.
Let’s keep “!raffle” as the command
for viewers to enter, but change the message
to “Holy cow, @{user.name} just bought {amount}
ticket(s)!
Good luck!”.
You can also change the announcement, closing,
and winner messages.
Under “Repeat giveaway” you can have a
reminder message in your chat to let people
know the giveaway is still going.
Maybe our chat has a medium amount of activity
so we’ll have this repeat every 20 lines
of chat to remind viewers.
Great!
Now we can save.
On the main menu let’s start the giveaway.
Let’s pay for the merch now so it can be
made and shipped as soon as the winner is
selected.
After we pay for the item, the giveaway will
start and we can see entries and the timer
under the “Current Giveaways” tab.
You can also close entries, either temporarily
or permanently, if you need to do so.
Once a few viewers have tickets, they’ll
appear here.
Let’s cut it short and end the giveaway
now.
We can close entries and pick a winner.
Congratulations!
You’ve conducted your first giveaway with
merch!
Setting up giveaways correctly can get your
viewers really hype for an opportunity to
sport your gear as well as increase your followers
and subscribers and promote your merch.
Be sure to download Streamlabs OBS by visiting
Streamlabs.com and hop into our Discord server
at Discord.gg/stream for live community support.
Check out the links in the description below.
