Atlas Launch has been delayed, viewers showed up in mass on Twitch.
During the failed launch of Atlas on Dec 19, we saw over 210,000 viewers on Twitch waiting to see what the game is all about. For a game with very limited information other then some screenshots and 2 trailers, I find the hype meter really high.
Some of the biggest streamers on Twitch all switched from their regular scheduled formats to showcase this new game. Here is a look at the game directory on Twitch with some thumbnails of majority of the streamers.
Judging by the interest in viewers and of streamers, this game may do really well if the next launch window isn't delayed again. What makes this game different from other mmo's is how they are saying its going to be similar to EVE Online with having a majority of players on a single shard. If they can pull that off, with ARK like mechanics and trading economies from EVE, this maybe one of the best games for streamers to get into for regular sessions.
Check out our new PlayAtlas wiki website being developed.
That being said, if it gets into EVE Online mechanics with full loot and ship loss it may turn off a lot of players. All of it depends on the time it takes to create ships and gear. If its very easy to create ships and gear then that also makes things alittle gimmicky. Since its on a single shard type of server setup, stream sniping is going to be a issue for streamers.
12/21/2018 - Latest Update from community manager states they will be allowing some streamers into the game before launch. Here is the discord screenshot of the full statement.
Overall this entire roll out has been poorly managed for the game in my opinion. A lot of things should of been setup and handled better way before launch date(s).
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 2018
How to get free game keys sponsor for your twitch stream!
Listed here are a couple of websites that provide the link between game companies, developers and content creators to connect for sponsorships. If you are a streamer, you should definitely think about joining in on these sites for possible free game keys and more. The more viewers, followers and content generation you create, the more sponsorship doors open up.
Here are some of the services I use for my stream!
1. Woovit - is a self service key distribution platform.
2. Keymailer - key distribution platform and other offers. NOTE: Keymailer may sometimes lists games to which they don't have any keys for but collect your requests in order to sell that to game publishers.
3. Noiz.gg - distributes keys, sponsorship opportunities
4. Terminals.io - key distribution platform, PR
5. Gamesight.io - key distribution platform, PR
6. Arsenal.gg - analytics, key distribution platform
7. Xsolla - keys, affiliate programs, performance-driven
These are all the different key distribution platforms that I have signed up for and use regularly to get free game keys for my channel on twitch. If you happen to know of any that are not listed and provide similar services, please fill free to comment below or message me so I can review it and add it to the list.
Guide on how to get free game keys for live streaming and video content creation.
Game developers are looking for influencers to play their games on live streams and on videos for youtube. What makes these services very helpful is how they screen out fake content creators. Each content creator supplies connections to their Twitch, Youtube, Social Media and other accounts which then pulls in data to verify the authenticity and traffic levels of the content creators.Here are some of the services I use for my stream!
1. Woovit - is a self service key distribution platform.
2. Keymailer - key distribution platform and other offers. NOTE: Keymailer may sometimes lists games to which they don't have any keys for but collect your requests in order to sell that to game publishers.
3. Noiz.gg - distributes keys, sponsorship opportunities
4. Terminals.io - key distribution platform, PR
5. Gamesight.io - key distribution platform, PR
6. Arsenal.gg - analytics, key distribution platform
7. Xsolla - keys, affiliate programs, performance-driven
These are all the different key distribution platforms that I have signed up for and use regularly to get free game keys for my channel on twitch. If you happen to know of any that are not listed and provide similar services, please fill free to comment below or message me so I can review it and add it to the list.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Android App - Browse games by number of viewers
How to sort on the Twitch Android App by number of viewers!
So Twitch by default it seems has a preference setting that says the following; "Language Ranking" - Show me streams where a large portion of the viewers share my language first.
This setting makes games and streamers of your language have higher placement on the directory listing sections on the app. If you want to have it so its all sorted by viewer numbers and no language, you will have to turn this setting off in the preferences.
Steps to get to Preferences, since it seems alittle cryptic to finding this settings option.
Login to the Twitch App
On the Top Right corner there is a Icon for your profile.
Click on that, then scroll up to see the Cogwheel.
Click on the cogwheel, select settings
Then click on Preferences and move the language ranking setting to the off position.
So Twitch by default it seems has a preference setting that says the following; "Language Ranking" - Show me streams where a large portion of the viewers share my language first.
This setting makes games and streamers of your language have higher placement on the directory listing sections on the app. If you want to have it so its all sorted by viewer numbers and no language, you will have to turn this setting off in the preferences.
Steps to get to Preferences, since it seems alittle cryptic to finding this settings option.
Login to the Twitch App
On the Top Right corner there is a Icon for your profile.
Click on that, then scroll up to see the Cogwheel.
Click on the cogwheel, select settings
Then click on Preferences and move the language ranking setting to the off position.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Tags Guide
How to use the tags system on Twitch.tv!
The new tagging system is now live as of September 26, 2018 on Twitch.tv. Tags can be used to categorize channels with additional details. To add tags to your channel go to the dashboard and check in the "Stream Information" for the tags section.
Search for the tag that best fits your channel, you can have up to 5 different tags. Your language setting is also included in the tagging system. Once you have added in all the tags for your channel, press update information button.
All the various tags will be available as filter options in the directory pages. The tagging system will also be used in personalized recommendation section(s) to show more similar streams based on past history and tag listings. For instance, if you watch channels that are tagged as 'PvE', the recommendation sections will show more of those types of channels.
Notable Changes
The gaming directory now has unique tags dedicated to genres.
List of Game Directory Genres:
The POPULAR listing is now called Live Channels, this still includes 'ReRun' streams.
If you are looking to search for specific languages, you can either type it in the filter or switch the 'Showing' section to 'Live Channels' and find it in the drop down list.
Creative Section changes
The creative section has changed, "Creative" is now a genre with tags that are searchable.
The IRL section has changed, "IRL" is now a genre with tags that are searchable.
Update 4/18/2020
Make sure to use all 5 tag slots for your stream because Twitch is using certain tags for their sitemap indexing pages that search engines crawl and then index into their directories. This is sadly going to only benefit the top viewed vod and the most live concurrent channels but you maybe lucky with a smaller channel to still be index'ed in time to time because many top end streamers are to lazy to add in tags.
Here is a list of the current specific tags used in Twitch's sitemap index that you should be using.
Twitch appears to have a special tag called "Celeb" which only a couple channels appear to be enabled for which include the following: xqcow, drdisrespect, nickmercs, timthetatman, lirik. Some other tags in the above list may also be not accessible, I do not have the time to check all of them.
Another issue to be noted on is that you can only set the tags before your stream or during your stream. Currently you can not go into your VODS and switch tags. VODS take the tags that were made during the stream session. I hope they allow VOD tagging to be enabled in the future.
The new tagging system is now live as of September 26, 2018 on Twitch.tv. Tags can be used to categorize channels with additional details. To add tags to your channel go to the dashboard and check in the "Stream Information" for the tags section.
Search for the tag that best fits your channel, you can have up to 5 different tags. Your language setting is also included in the tagging system. Once you have added in all the tags for your channel, press update information button.
All the various tags will be available as filter options in the directory pages. The tagging system will also be used in personalized recommendation section(s) to show more similar streams based on past history and tag listings. For instance, if you watch channels that are tagged as 'PvE', the recommendation sections will show more of those types of channels.
Notable Changes
The gaming directory now has unique tags dedicated to genres.
List of Game Directory Genres:
- Action
- Adventure
- Adventure Game
- Battle Royale
- Card & Board Game
- Compilation
- Creative
- Driving
- Driving/Racing Game
- Educational Game
- Fighting
- Flight Simulator
- FPS
- Gambling Game
- Horror
- IRL
- MMORPG
- MOBA
- Non-gaming
- Pinball
- Platformer
- Puzzle
- Rhythm & Music Game
- Roguelike
- RPG
- RTS
- Shoot 'Em Up
- Shooter
- Simulation
- Sports
- Strategy
The POPULAR listing is now called Live Channels, this still includes 'ReRun' streams.
If you are looking to search for specific languages, you can either type it in the filter or switch the 'Showing' section to 'Live Channels' and find it in the drop down list.
Creative Section changes
The creative section has changed, "Creative" is now a genre with tags that are searchable.
- Music & Performing Arts
- Art
- Food & Drink
- Makers & Crafting
- Beauty & Body Art
The IRL section has changed, "IRL" is now a genre with tags that are searchable.
- Just Chatting
- Music & Performing Arts
- Talk Shows & Podcasts
- ASMR
- Travel & Outdoors
- Food & Drink
- Makers & Crafting
- Science & Technology
- Beauty & Body Art
- Special Events
- Sports & Fitness
Update 4/18/2020
Make sure to use all 5 tag slots for your stream because Twitch is using certain tags for their sitemap indexing pages that search engines crawl and then index into their directories. This is sadly going to only benefit the top viewed vod and the most live concurrent channels but you maybe lucky with a smaller channel to still be index'ed in time to time because many top end streamers are to lazy to add in tags.
Here is a list of the current specific tags used in Twitch's sitemap index that you should be using.
Channels | VODS |
100 | 100 |
12 Hour Challenge | |
Achievement Hunting | Achievement Hunting |
AMA | AMA |
Analysis | |
Animals | Animals |
Animation | |
Anime | Anime |
Any | Any |
Arena | |
Auditory ASMR | |
Backseat Gaming Allowed | Backseat Gaming Allowed |
Basketball | Basketball |
Beginner Players | Beginner Players |
Blind Playthrough | Blind Playthrough |
Cash Game | |
Casual Playthrough | |
Celeb | Celeb |
Challenge Run | Challenge Run |
Charity | Charity |
Closed Captions | |
Coaching | Coaching |
Competitive | Competitive |
Cooking | Cooking |
Cooperative | Cooperative |
Cosplay | Cosplay |
Digital Art | |
DJ | DJ |
Drawing | Drawing |
Duos | Duos |
Early Access Play | Early Access Play |
Educational | Educational |
Electronic Music | Electronic Music |
End Game | |
Epic Level Characters | |
Esports | Esports |
EU Server | EU Server |
Evil Characters | Evil Characters |
Exploration | Exploration |
Family Friendly | Family Friendly |
Farming | Farming |
Fashion | |
Finance | |
First Playthrough | First Playthrough |
Game Show | Game Show |
Gaming News | Gaming News |
Hard Mode | Hard Mode |
Hip Hop Music | Hip Hop Music |
Illustration | |
Improv | |
League | League |
Let's Play | Let's Play |
Leveling | LGBTQIA |
LGBTQIA | |
Live Vlogging | Live Vlogging |
Marathon | Marathon |
Match Commentary | Match Commentary |
Meme Runs | Meme Runs |
Mental Health | Mental Health |
Mindfulness | Mindfulness |
Modded | Modded |
Mode Battle Royale | |
Mode Survival | Mode Survival |
Multiplayer | Multiplayer |
Music Performance | Music Performance |
Music Production | Music Production |
NA Server | NA Server |
News | News |
No Backseat Gaming | No Backseat Gaming |
No Spoilers | No Spoilers |
Party Game | Party Game |
PB Attempts | PB Attempts |
Permadeath | |
Playing with Viewers | Playing with Viewers |
Pro Fortnite | Pro Fortnite |
Pro Hearthstone | Pro Hearthstone |
PvE | PvE |
PvP | PvP |
Racing | Racing |
Radio | Radio |
Ranked | Ranked |
Retro | |
Roleplay | Roleplay |
Singing | Singing |
Singleplayer | Singleplayer |
Soccer | Soccer |
Social Eating | Social Eating |
Solos | Solos |
Speedrun | Speedrun |
Squads | Squads |
Standup Comedy | Standup Comedy |
Strength Training | Strength Training |
Tournament | Tournament |
Tutorial | |
Twitch Stream Aid | Twitch Stream Aid |
Visual ASMR | Visual ASMR |
Voice Acting | Voice Acting |
VR | VR |
Warming Up | Warming Up |
WR Attempts |
Twitch appears to have a special tag called "Celeb" which only a couple channels appear to be enabled for which include the following: xqcow, drdisrespect, nickmercs, timthetatman, lirik. Some other tags in the above list may also be not accessible, I do not have the time to check all of them.
Another issue to be noted on is that you can only set the tags before your stream or during your stream. Currently you can not go into your VODS and switch tags. VODS take the tags that were made during the stream session. I hope they allow VOD tagging to be enabled in the future.
Friday, September 14, 2018
When external Influencers start to censor!
How a powerful external influencer starts to censor?
As reported a couple months ago on this blog, one of the biggest external influencers which is OWNED BY TWITCH has been promoting twitch streams on their wiki network. The more popular a wiki is on their network, the more traffic and embedded viewership it generates for Twitch streamers.
Some of the most popular Wiki's on that network include but are not limited to the following;
Now this sounds like great for getting additional exposure for your stream right? Yup it is and I wrote about that here - Free Channel Traffic / Free Views
And here is how the censorship starts due to complaints from streamers vs streamers.
My channel broadcasts 24/7 using the rerun feature that is provided by Twitch. I like to play sandbox games on my stream and sometimes do play through runs of games. I broadcasting each day for around 5 to 8 hours then run reruns until I stream again the next day. A month ago, I was streaming Terraria which is one of the games that is being VERY LARGELY influenced by this 3rd party. A majority of the streamers who regularly stream that game do not have the reach in views that my channel generates daily. So what happen was as soon as I took the top spot in the directory, a huge chuck of the 3rd party embedding traffic was being sent to my channel which made it very difficult for other channels to overtake the top slot on the directory. The "free channel traffic" was gone for them and they didnt like it at all.
Without the 3rd party embedding support for Terraria, its overall viewership is alot lower. Estimated additional concurrent viewers from 3rd party is 400 - 1500+ depending on time of day. Many people who stream this game only do it because of that additional embedding traffic, some use it to launchpad into other games. So once that was gone, they started to campaign against my channel. One of them talked negativity about my channel on their stream, which lead to trolling in my chat from their viewbase.
At some point they contacted the 3rd party to complain about my channel. The 3rd party agreed with the complaints and censored my channel from being listed + promoted on their wiki.
I messaged the 3rd party myself to see exactly what the reason was for not being listed anymore.
Here was the responses:
This person "HLAquarius" was monitoring the situation and ran to whisper me, but then for some odd reason they delete their username a couple days later? Hmm?
What makes this censorship stupid is how the Twitch API gives details if channels are in ReRun mode or Live, if the 3rd party doesn't want to promote or list a streamer in rerun mode, they can easily code it to not do that instead of censoring due to complaints from streamers.
And now I recently started to stream No Man's Sky again, and guess what happened? Another complaint and tada censored on another wiki from this Twitch owned 3rd party.
Let me finish up with some words of advice, if you are a streamer do not become depended on any 3rd party traffic or embedding, one day it may help get more exposure and the next day it maybe gone. Build your own content, wikis, do your own embedding and promotions - be in control!
As reported a couple months ago on this blog, one of the biggest external influencers which is OWNED BY TWITCH has been promoting twitch streams on their wiki network. The more popular a wiki is on their network, the more traffic and embedded viewership it generates for Twitch streamers.
Some of the most popular Wiki's on that network include but are not limited to the following;
- Minecraft
- Terraria
- Ark
Now this sounds like great for getting additional exposure for your stream right? Yup it is and I wrote about that here - Free Channel Traffic / Free Views
And here is how the censorship starts due to complaints from streamers vs streamers.
My channel broadcasts 24/7 using the rerun feature that is provided by Twitch. I like to play sandbox games on my stream and sometimes do play through runs of games. I broadcasting each day for around 5 to 8 hours then run reruns until I stream again the next day. A month ago, I was streaming Terraria which is one of the games that is being VERY LARGELY influenced by this 3rd party. A majority of the streamers who regularly stream that game do not have the reach in views that my channel generates daily. So what happen was as soon as I took the top spot in the directory, a huge chuck of the 3rd party embedding traffic was being sent to my channel which made it very difficult for other channels to overtake the top slot on the directory. The "free channel traffic" was gone for them and they didnt like it at all.
Without the 3rd party embedding support for Terraria, its overall viewership is alot lower. Estimated additional concurrent viewers from 3rd party is 400 - 1500+ depending on time of day. Many people who stream this game only do it because of that additional embedding traffic, some use it to launchpad into other games. So once that was gone, they started to campaign against my channel. One of them talked negativity about my channel on their stream, which lead to trolling in my chat from their viewbase.
At some point they contacted the 3rd party to complain about my channel. The 3rd party agreed with the complaints and censored my channel from being listed + promoted on their wiki.
I messaged the 3rd party myself to see exactly what the reason was for not being listed anymore.
Here was the responses:
- That channel was banned from our wiki after it was brought to our
attention that they were exploiting the system, as documented in a blog.
- So I guess they didnt like how I told people about how they are influencing/sending tons of traffic to certain games on twitch.... Is this suppose to be TOP SECRET? Who knows ...I replied and asked for more clarification.
- The 24/7 streaming is the issue. Once you've grabbed the unit, you don't give it up because you fill up reruns. The point of the embedded unit is to promote LIVE content, not reruns.
- They made up a rule that no one knows about, its not listed anywhere, how is anyone suppose to know? I replied, since doing reRuns until the next time I stream was the issue, I said I can stop doing that and asked to be unbanned.
- You will not be unbanned. The embed is for promoting the games and platform, not for streamers to game for revenue.
- This is a interesting reply, note the "Streamers to game for revenue". I didnt know streaming on twitch was a hobby, this person's mindset is very poor.
This person "HLAquarius" was monitoring the situation and ran to whisper me, but then for some odd reason they delete their username a couple days later? Hmm?
What makes this censorship stupid is how the Twitch API gives details if channels are in ReRun mode or Live, if the 3rd party doesn't want to promote or list a streamer in rerun mode, they can easily code it to not do that instead of censoring due to complaints from streamers.
And now I recently started to stream No Man's Sky again, and guess what happened? Another complaint and tada censored on another wiki from this Twitch owned 3rd party.
Let me finish up with some words of advice, if you are a streamer do not become depended on any 3rd party traffic or embedding, one day it may help get more exposure and the next day it maybe gone. Build your own content, wikis, do your own embedding and promotions - be in control!
Thursday, August 30, 2018
What is launch padding for streamers?
What is launch padding and how are streamers doing it?
Launch padding is basically using specific games with high 3rd party embedding traffic to gain higher directory placement in new or more popular games.
What are some games that are good for launch padding?
As of 8/30/2018 the day of this post, the following games in my opinion have the best launch padding potential.
Or they stream game #1 until they grab the embedding traffic spike, then switch to game #2. A good example would be some people streaming Terraria, grabbing the embedding traffic and then switching to other games that have 'Twitch Drop' enabled like Warframe which further boosts numbers depending on directory placement.
If you have a big enough community, you can leverage this to possibly help with getting more exposure on the platform. But always keep in mind, 3rd party traffic is not something you control, it can end at any given moment.
Launch padding is basically using specific games with high 3rd party embedding traffic to gain higher directory placement in new or more popular games.
What are some games that are good for launch padding?
As of 8/30/2018 the day of this post, the following games in my opinion have the best launch padding potential.
- Terraria
- Ark
- Minecraft
Or they stream game #1 until they grab the embedding traffic spike, then switch to game #2. A good example would be some people streaming Terraria, grabbing the embedding traffic and then switching to other games that have 'Twitch Drop' enabled like Warframe which further boosts numbers depending on directory placement.
If you have a big enough community, you can leverage this to possibly help with getting more exposure on the platform. But always keep in mind, 3rd party traffic is not something you control, it can end at any given moment.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Viewers in common analytics
Which channels have viewers in common with mine?
One of the newest pieces of analytics Twitch is offering to broadcasters is a top 5 viewers in common statistic. You can find this panel by opening up your dashboard, then going to the channel section under analytics on the left sidebar. There you should see a panel similar to this screenshot below, note I have censored the channels on this picture for a reason.
This section is extremely handy for determining possible co-streaming opportunities with other streamers on the platform. Try to reach out to channels in the list and see if you can work together in some fashion. Maybe even add these channels to auto host since the audience is similar.
Another interesting tidbit this panel is useful for is to determine streamers who are sending negativity your way via their viewer base. <--- Remember this line. If you find yourself wondering why so many chatters seem to have some agenda with what they are typing away, investigate this panel and see if these channels are talking about your channel. In my situation, it easily pointed to a competitive mindset streamer who was indeed targeting my channel with negativity.
One of the newest pieces of analytics Twitch is offering to broadcasters is a top 5 viewers in common statistic. You can find this panel by opening up your dashboard, then going to the channel section under analytics on the left sidebar. There you should see a panel similar to this screenshot below, note I have censored the channels on this picture for a reason.
This section is extremely handy for determining possible co-streaming opportunities with other streamers on the platform. Try to reach out to channels in the list and see if you can work together in some fashion. Maybe even add these channels to auto host since the audience is similar.
Another interesting tidbit this panel is useful for is to determine streamers who are sending negativity your way via their viewer base. <--- Remember this line. If you find yourself wondering why so many chatters seem to have some agenda with what they are typing away, investigate this panel and see if these channels are talking about your channel. In my situation, it easily pointed to a competitive mindset streamer who was indeed targeting my channel with negativity.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Huge amount of follower bots are copying your stream channel name
Huge numbers of fake follower accounts have been created using channel names.
So overnight some entity has created thousands of Twitch accounts using streamers channel's name. Here is a screenshot of what it looks for one of my channels on Twitch.
The format for the accounts appears to follow a pattern, its basically a streamers channel plus a random combination of one to three digits or letters. Some are also using pictures, avatars from established streamers in the profile.
Please be aware its not the channel owners doing it, if you get messages, alerts, /raids or whatever from channels that are following this format dont take it against the streamer.
Who exactly knows what the entity is planning on doing with all the fake accounts. Hopefully Twitch will investigate and remove these accounts from the system.
How to check if your channel was effected is by using the search function on the Twitch website.
Put in your stream name in the search bar and then click more on the channel section. Here is a screenshot to help you see where to click on to show more.
Again, be careful when clicking on things inside chat rooms, this entity maybe will try to post links with similar channel name to get viewers to click on them. It maybe a smart move to banned all accounts you find during search to prevent something like that from happening inside your chats.
Update - 8/19/2018
Checked to see if any of the new accounts have been removed for 'gamingwithdaopa' search and I still see a total of 30 or so fake accounts. We are speculating the entity that is doing this account generation is trying to obtain 'free subs' from Twitch's new gifting option. I believe if they get a free sub, it may whitelist them inside that channel which will then allow them to post fishing links or other problematic links inside chat rooms.
It maybe time to prevent all URLs from being displayed in your chat unless its been reviewed by a moderator or channel owner. When reviewing links, pay attention to misspellings for domain names, and get a handle on URL shortener that will cloak links.
So overnight some entity has created thousands of Twitch accounts using streamers channel's name. Here is a screenshot of what it looks for one of my channels on Twitch.
The format for the accounts appears to follow a pattern, its basically a streamers channel plus a random combination of one to three digits or letters. Some are also using pictures, avatars from established streamers in the profile.
Please be aware its not the channel owners doing it, if you get messages, alerts, /raids or whatever from channels that are following this format dont take it against the streamer.
Who exactly knows what the entity is planning on doing with all the fake accounts. Hopefully Twitch will investigate and remove these accounts from the system.
How to check if your channel was effected is by using the search function on the Twitch website.
Put in your stream name in the search bar and then click more on the channel section. Here is a screenshot to help you see where to click on to show more.
Again, be careful when clicking on things inside chat rooms, this entity maybe will try to post links with similar channel name to get viewers to click on them. It maybe a smart move to banned all accounts you find during search to prevent something like that from happening inside your chats.
Update - 8/19/2018
Checked to see if any of the new accounts have been removed for 'gamingwithdaopa' search and I still see a total of 30 or so fake accounts. We are speculating the entity that is doing this account generation is trying to obtain 'free subs' from Twitch's new gifting option. I believe if they get a free sub, it may whitelist them inside that channel which will then allow them to post fishing links or other problematic links inside chat rooms.
It maybe time to prevent all URLs from being displayed in your chat unless its been reviewed by a moderator or channel owner. When reviewing links, pay attention to misspellings for domain names, and get a handle on URL shortener that will cloak links.
Monday, August 13, 2018
600,000+ Tune in for the start of Battle for Azeroth
At 6 PM Est time, the start of "World of Warcraft's - Battle for Azeroth" newest expansion launched and here are some screenshots of the numbers and top streamers on twitch!
Let start with overall viewers, it topped around 610,000 here is a screenshot from the Twitch directory.
Top streamers for launch include the following:
It is always amazing to see the viewership numbers for game launches like this Twitch. You can also view how much of a viewership hit some of these non wow streamers take by switching over to it for the launch window. As of 7:30 PM, overall viewership numbers have gone down to around 495,991 Viewers. I guess the core viewers are now busy playing the game and stopped watching streams.
Let start with overall viewers, it topped around 610,000 here is a screenshot from the Twitch directory.
Click to enlarge picture.
With any large AAA Title, tons of streamers who usually do not play or stream world of warcraft all jumped in for the expansion launch. Here is a look at the top most streamers: Top streamers for launch include the following:
- sodapoppin - 84,750 viewers
- Asmongold - 60,350 viewers
- LIRIK - 31,170 viewers
- ZeratoR - 29,728 viewers
- TimTheTatman - 26,652 viewers
- Reckful - 23,506 viewers
- shroud - 21,415 viewers
- AtheneLIVE - 16,513 viewers
- Towelliee - 14,535 viewers
- ungespielt - 7,612 vierwers
It is always amazing to see the viewership numbers for game launches like this Twitch. You can also view how much of a viewership hit some of these non wow streamers take by switching over to it for the launch window. As of 7:30 PM, overall viewership numbers have gone down to around 495,991 Viewers. I guess the core viewers are now busy playing the game and stopped watching streams.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Powerful Embedding Promotion
How embedding can be used to promote big events for your Twitch channel.
This past weekend Twitch had a major Overwatch League event and I noticed some of the various ways they used embedding advertising to promote the channel. For those of you who are not familiar with what embedding means its basically taking the channel video stream player and showing it externally outside of Twitch. A good example of embedding can be seen here on this blog, on the sidebar I embed my Twitch channel in the advertising section. You can also include chat as its own embed if you wanted to show that off.
So lets start with reddit, on numerous subreddits during the event they had a advertisement going which showed the stream as a embed. Here is a screenshot:
This would show up as a reddit promoted post and as users went to the subreddits that had this advert going, they would be able to watch the stream inside of reddit.
Next up and most likely one of the best embedding options Twitch has in their portfolio is gamepedia. Here is a screenshot of the OverwatchLeague channel being embedding across the majority of the gamepedia wiki network.
Even thou the event is over with that embed is still occurring which is extremely helpful when looking at how much channel views generation its generally doing. Lets take a quick look at some basic stats for this channel.
The event took place on the 27th and 28th of July, on the screenshot I've added 2 black dots. Now look at what happened on Sunday, over 2 million views on a offline stream. And continued on to Monday another 1.2 million views mostly generated by Twitch's embedding of the channel on gamepedia. How interesting to see a big bulk of the views coming from embedding promotions outside of Twitch.
One more place that I've seen in the past Twitch used to promote a special event was on imdb. IMDB is owned by Amazon, its a movie-actor type of a database lookup website. I forgot to check to see if they had any promotional embed for the Overwatchleague channel. But here is how they used it during a Call of Duty Black Ops announcement event.
This was on the frontpage, top fold of the layout showing the channel as a embed.
Most likely they did additional promotion on facebook, twitter and other places but I didn't dig that deep. On facebook they do not allow 3rd party embedding, but on Twitter you can embed your stream.
Overall this shows how powerful embedding advertisement can be to promote your channel on Twitch. Check out my "How to get twitch viewers", guide for ways you can start taking advantage of embedding and other various tips that I have learned over the years of streaming.
Any questions or comments fill free to post below in the comment section.
Update 8/15/2018 - Noticed another embedded stream on r/twitch promoting Call of Duty, unlucky for them having a MATURE Filter enabled prevented the stream from autoplaying.
Here is a screenshot:
Additional examples of embedding, date of screenshots taken on 4/27/2021.
This past weekend Twitch had a major Overwatch League event and I noticed some of the various ways they used embedding advertising to promote the channel. For those of you who are not familiar with what embedding means its basically taking the channel video stream player and showing it externally outside of Twitch. A good example of embedding can be seen here on this blog, on the sidebar I embed my Twitch channel in the advertising section. You can also include chat as its own embed if you wanted to show that off.
So lets start with reddit, on numerous subreddits during the event they had a advertisement going which showed the stream as a embed. Here is a screenshot:
This would show up as a reddit promoted post and as users went to the subreddits that had this advert going, they would be able to watch the stream inside of reddit.
Next up and most likely one of the best embedding options Twitch has in their portfolio is gamepedia. Here is a screenshot of the OverwatchLeague channel being embedding across the majority of the gamepedia wiki network.
Even thou the event is over with that embed is still occurring which is extremely helpful when looking at how much channel views generation its generally doing. Lets take a quick look at some basic stats for this channel.
The event took place on the 27th and 28th of July, on the screenshot I've added 2 black dots. Now look at what happened on Sunday, over 2 million views on a offline stream. And continued on to Monday another 1.2 million views mostly generated by Twitch's embedding of the channel on gamepedia. How interesting to see a big bulk of the views coming from embedding promotions outside of Twitch.
One more place that I've seen in the past Twitch used to promote a special event was on imdb. IMDB is owned by Amazon, its a movie-actor type of a database lookup website. I forgot to check to see if they had any promotional embed for the Overwatchleague channel. But here is how they used it during a Call of Duty Black Ops announcement event.
This was on the frontpage, top fold of the layout showing the channel as a embed.
Most likely they did additional promotion on facebook, twitter and other places but I didn't dig that deep. On facebook they do not allow 3rd party embedding, but on Twitter you can embed your stream.
Overall this shows how powerful embedding advertisement can be to promote your channel on Twitch. Check out my "How to get twitch viewers", guide for ways you can start taking advantage of embedding and other various tips that I have learned over the years of streaming.
Any questions or comments fill free to post below in the comment section.
Update 8/15/2018 - Noticed another embedded stream on r/twitch promoting Call of Duty, unlucky for them having a MATURE Filter enabled prevented the stream from autoplaying.
Here is a screenshot:
Additional examples of embedding, date of screenshots taken on 4/27/2021.
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