Hi everyone! I wasn't sure where I should post this, so I hope its right!
I'm obviously aware of Twitch but I haven't used it or watched any content on there. I have a Gaming channel and I was told for Monetising reasons Twitch was better but I don't really know the full advantages and disadvantages of both. Plus, I'm really enjoying my You Tube channel anyway!
Knowledge doesnt hurt though. So any opinions/information I would be grateful to hear!
It's a completely different beast tbh if you mean YT Gaming vs Twitch then it's 100% twitch for various reasons.
Reg. Youtube:
>Buried by the algorithm
>Hard to break out since you have since 2006 worth of gaming vids to outrank to get an audience
>Let's plays today don't draw anywhere near what they did back in 2010. Game channels like NCS, Clement, ect barely pull anything and they are huge even now. Mainly because it's switched from let's plays and reviews to AVGN ripoffs, PewDiePie genre people, and Reviewers that do the jontron sorta stuff (see normal boots)
>If you want to break out it's more about pick 1 single game, be amazing at it or funny, and stick with it for like 10000 episodes.
YT Gaming:
>Decent live platform, it works. It does that at least.
>Terrible interface, very small audiences due to overcrowding and horrid front page interface. People aren't used to it enough. (For Example: I have 6k subs on my main channel. Get maybe 2 viewers tops on YT Gaming VS 35-50 on a regular hangout)
>Unless you are already huge in gaming... don't bother.
Twitch:
>Buried if you play the top ranked games and your new
>Great interface, can play anything and find SOMEBODY to watch because the stream times are different, the categories are by any game you wanna see (just search for a game)
>More people in chat hanging out, a lot more hype and better environment.
>Epic Emoji's and flame wars in chat are always hilarious
>It's much more built from the ground up for gamers vs YT cashing in with YTGaming since amazon stole that twitch buyout deal before google could get it.
>VOD section is.... sparse. It only keeps the footage for two weeks so if your about LP's just export em to your YT channel as an archive.
My advice is to try twitch and YT gaming. I personally think twitch is much better for building an audience.
Monetization wise: Youtube > Twitch. Simply due to YT gives you ad rev from the start.
Twitch is all about crowdfunding aka donations, subscribers (which you can't get from the start; gotta have a big enough fanbase for it; then hoping people pay $5 a month to sub for emotes).
Honestly for money, i'd say do twitch, set up all the complicated stuff for the alerts and such. Go through the hassle, and have a donation bar where you have your most recent donator OR highest donator of the night. Once you build an audience people will wage war to be the top guy for their name on screen. Takes time regardless of platform. Twitch is much more solid tho and easier to break out.
