One of the hardest aspects of streaming on a large platform like Twitch is acquiring viewers. Here are some tips, guides and other helpful information to tackle that problem. We will be sharing traditional and non traditional ways for getting viewers on twitch.
- The basics to viewership building - this guide includes the generic methods for getting more viewers.
- Luck Factor - covers game day launches, friends with benefits, rule breaking and other topics.
- Embedding - one of the most powerful ways to obtain viewers is by embedding and syndication.
- Crowd Sourcing - getting viewers to contribute
- This guide overs the basics in getting the embed code for your channel.
- Wordpress - covers how to put your stream on a wordpress website.
- Blogger - covers how to embed your stream on blogger / blogspot.
- Advanced Embed Code options - lists more parameters and settings for embedding.
- Twitter - this guide is how you can embed your stream inside of twitter. Twitter users will see a video player window to which they can press play on and your stream will start showing up inside of twitter. This is extremely powerful if used correctly with the right hashtags.
- Reddit - one of the biggest forums / discussion websites in the world. This is a huge traffic potential for any streamer. If you primary in one type of game and they have a subreddit, make sure to visit that subreddit and contribute to the discussion. If the subreddit allows videos and stream posts make sure to create one for your channel. Follow the rules do not just randomly post your link as a dump and run.
- Youtube - every streamer needs to be on youtube, make sure to post your highlights and vods to your youtube channel.
- Facebook - create a fan page for your channel on facebook, make sure to post video clip highlights, events and other important information for your channel. More detail guide under construction.
- Steam Group - create a group on steam for your channel. More detail guide under construction.
- Discord - get a discord server setup for your channel. A great way to continue the chat and community off of Twitch. More detail guide under construction.
- Free Game Keys - guide on how to sign up for free game keys via various specialized platforms.
Discontinued Suggestions and Info:
- Gamepedia -
guide about how Twitch is using their wiki network to generate views for channels. Update: 7/26/2019 -- Gamepedia has stopped promoting twitch streams as a autoplaying embed on their wiki platform. Gamepedia is also not part of Twitch/Amazon anymore since the start of this year.- Top Game Influencer - if you are a affiliate or partner, you will want to read that news post since a majority have no idea this is occurring in the background.
- Free Channel Traffic / Free Views - detail guide on how you can use gamepedia to grow your channel.
