I made a lot of mistakes when I started
streaming I mean look at this guy would
you watch him
I wouldn't this guy has no idea what
he's doing fortunately for you you can
learn from my mistakes these are five
things to know before you start
streaming my name is Chris folia I'll be
your professor welcome to stream school
1 choose a simple name one of the
biggest mistakes I made when I moved
from YouTube to twitch was setting my
username to Oracle fish but the Oh was a
zero later I changed my username to
Oracle fish live because that's a lot
easier to communicate to people than
Oracle fish but the oh is a zero that
that whole thing just confuses people
you don't want to do that I mean when
you have the opportunity to tell someone
about your stream you want your name to
be as simple and to the point as
possible if your username is memorable
those people are significantly more
likely to stop by your stream because
they actually remember what your
username is now I'm not saying don't put
numbers in your user name something like
gaming toast 37 is pretty easy to
remember however what I am saying is
don't use underscores and don't replace
letters with numbers that just gets
really convoluted it's not simple or
easy to explain that the a is a four and
Oracle underscore fish just doesn't have
the same catchy ring to it as Oracle
fish to make a schedule and stick to it
your viewers are a lot more likely to
show up if they know when you're going
to be alive for example how likely would
you be to go to the movies if they
stopped posting movie schedules and just
started sending you notifications to
your phone like a few minutes before the
movie started I'd also recommend not
going live every single free night that
you have for example if you have five
free nights a week don't go live five
nights a week you're going to want to
take a couple of those nights to work on
improving the quality of your stream or
making content for Twitter Instagram or
YouTube or maybe even just give yourself
some you time so you don't get burnt out
when I cut my stream back from five
nights a week to three I was able to
focus a lot more on improving the
quality of my stream and it was a
gigantic
boost in production value going live
less also generates a sense of scarcity
your viewers are a lot more likely to
show up on those nights if they know
you're not live just any old night of
the week 3 don't stream @ 1080p 60 this
one is twofold first of all the maximum
bitrate that which allows non partners
is 6000 kilobits per second it's just
not enough data to make a 1080p 60
stream look good it's gonna look blocky
and pixelated and just all-around bad
secondly if you're not a partner you're
not guaranteed to have transcoding
options this means that your viewers
aren't gonna be able to choose what
resolution they watch your stream at in
the same way that they could choose the
resolution of a YouTube video and if
you're streaming at 6000 kilobits per
second some of your viewers aren't gonna
have the Internet to support that and
it'll just buffer a whole bunch and at
that point that might as well just go
watch another streamer I'd recommend
starting at 1280 P 60 to cater to the
widest possible audience your video will
still look great and a lot of your
viewers are on mobile anyway so they
won't notice a difference for turn on
Vadra cording by default twitch doesn't
record your streams you're gonna want to
turn this on so you can go back the next
day and make notes about what you can
improve on your stream too many
streamers just go live stream for a few
hours and then completely forget about
it I never go back and watch their past
broadcasts do not be one of those people
you're always going to want to go back
and make notes about what you can
improve genuinely ask yourself is this
content that I would watch 5 first
impressions matter put some effort into
your appearance
would you rather hang out with this guy
who looks like he has his act together
or would you rather hang out with this
guy who looks like he has 16 rotting
pizza boxes in the corner under a pile
of dirty laundry now I'm not saying go
spend $3,000 on a fancy bespoke suit but
what I am saying is put some effort into
your hair and stop wearing the baggy
sweat stain logo tees that have
obnoxious sayings on them you're gonna
want to find a look that works for you
but doesn't look like you haven't
showered or changed clothes in three
weeks secondly for the love of God
please pay attention to your chat
whether it's on a second monitor a phone
a tablet whatever even if you have zero
viewers you always want to pay
attention to your chat I know it's
really easy to hop into a game and just
completely forget about the chat and not
pay any attention to it but if I hop
into a stream and say hello and they
just completely ignore me for more than
30 seconds I'm out of there I'm gonna go
hang out on a stream that does notice me
twitch and streaming in general is all
about real-time interaction I want to go
watch a video I'm gonna hop on over to
youtube if I want to be a part of an
amazing community and have really cool
conversations with people I'm gonna go
hang out on Twitch and that's the list
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video and just a friendly reminder that
I am live on Twitch every Tuesday Friday
and Saturday at twitch.tv slash Oracle
Phish live until next time my name is
Chris folia crashes ow
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