Now I’ve been streaming for quite a while now and due to some things changing in my personal
life I had to change my
schedule for every now and then.
I swapped out my streaming days and times and unexpectedly this made
my channel grow really fast. In this video I’ll go over the times
you should be streaming
in order to be growing your Twitch channel.
Hi guys, I'm FastAnne and I'm a Twitch streamer. And I want to welcome you to the first ever FastTips,
where
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We’re currently in the middle of the quarantine
but I hope you guys are all doing well and
staying safe. The quarantine however made a lot
of people to stay home giving them more free time
in which they’d like to stream on Twitch,
which begs the question: on which days and
which times should I stream? If you’re watching
this after the quarantine, don’t worry,
this video will be equally as relevant.
Now, a tool I suggest you to use is Twitch
Strike which I’ll show you in a minute.
It's a free tool that will give you the
viewers to streamer ratio for a
given day and given hour per game.
You want the viewer to streamer ratio to be
as high as possible because this means there
are more people watching relative to the
amount of streamers that are live. The higher
the amount of viewers and the lower the amount of streamers,
the more chances of you getting discovered on Twitch.
First you go to the website twitchstrike.com
and search for the kind of game you’d like to play.
At the top of this page, we need to
set some options first. Because first, we’re going to
exclude the top 5% of streamers. This
means you are going to exclude really big streamers,
esport events and pro streamers that attract a lot of viewers to their stream because
they are live at that exact moment. Then you’re
going to extend the date range to
"28 days” which will make sure we get the
highest possible dataset so we can average
things out. Finally you set the timezone to
your local timezone so the heatmaps
match your local timezone. Now if we scroll down,
we see a couple of heatmaps, but the most important one
Or the most interesting one in is the left one: the ratio
heatmap. This indicates the amount of viewers
per live streamer on every hour of a day
of the week. As I said before,
you want this ratio to be as high as possible.
In this heatmap, the darker the color, the
higher the ratio which is better. As we can
see in this heatmap, thursday has a big peak
on 10am, which, if you have the opportunity
to stream then, gives for really great viewers compared to the amount of streamers that are live.
On thursday there is also a peak at 2pm
which would make streaming from 9am to 3pm
a really good time. Do note
that starting your stream an hour before the
peak comes will hopefully get you off the 0 viewer
count, which will bring you higher up the
list and more opportunities of being discovered. You need to give people
the time to come into your stream before this peak hits.
This is just an example of a longer stream,
but if you don't have the opportunity to do a longer stream, wednesday from 11am till 1pm seems to also
be a really good opportunity considering it has two hours
of a higher than average ratio.
Also, if you do not stream in a language that is worldwide
known language such as English, make sure
to stream on the times that are relevant
to the language you're streaming in.
For example, I stream in English, but if I
were to stream in Dutch, it would probably
be not such a good idea to stream at 3am because people will likely be asleep then.
These are just some examples of how you could
change your streaming schedule to peak times,
but you might be wondering: how am I going
to fit in this in my personal life?
Well, sometimes you have the opportunity to switch some things
around. For example if there is a peak time close to dinner
that time, make sure to get yourself
a snack and stream before you're going to get
some dinner. Or if you are able to do so,
swap around the time you would normally
edit on and swap them over with your streaming time. Streaming on peak times will not only
give you more viewers, but will also introduce
you to a whole new audience that are watching other streams
for example when you are not live.
From my experience, quite a few members of
my community actually watch my streams as well when I'm streaming on different times.
But if you can’t change your schedule and
you can't stream on the peak times, no worries.
Being able to stream is better than
not being able to stream at all and there are also a lot of things
in life than streaming.
There is one thing to keep in mind, because
there are more opportunities to stream more on Twitch now
but you don’t want to overstream
yourself. You can’t go live 24/7 and you
basically don’t have to if you want to grow
on Twitch. I would say spend 50 percent of
your dedicated time on streaming itself and 50 percent of the time on creating content for
other platforms for people
to discover you there and to lead them to
your Twitch.
This video was sponsored by me. Because I have no sponsors. But really,
I do put a lot of effort and time in creating
these YouTube videos so I would love for you guys
to hit the like button, hit the subscribe button and
let me know in the comments what you are going to change about your streaming schedule or what your streaming schedule is.
Thank you so much for watching, I will see you guys in another video. Bye!
