Non-Affiliate Advice

#1 · March 8, 2025, 5:55 am

Quote from Mrr Zed0 on March 8, 2025, 5:55 am
Non-Affiliate Advice for the non-affiliates. This is crucial information, so be sure to have a look.

Keep your streams short. Try to aim for 1.5 – 2-hour streams with high viewer numbers. Viewers, even supporters, will come in at the start and stay for a while, but no one sits and watches an 11-hour stream. The higher total number of hours streamed over the last 30 days determines how easy it is to shift your average!

Get your game sound and voice channel balanced*. On Xbox, run game sound at 10% and voice at 100%. No one wants to hear AK47 gunfire or grenades exploding and unable to hear YOU! We came to talk to you, not be deafened by the game!

Have a mic. It doesn’t have to be expensive. A reasonably priced headset with a good sounding mic is a MUST. You don’t have to have a webcam, but you are going to struggle to hold viewers if they can’t hear you.

Interact with your chat. We don’t stream just to play a game. We stream for interactions with a community of people. You can’t build that unless you get to know your viewers. If it’s final circle in a competition you’re exempt, but it’s ok to die for chat otherwise.

Network twice as much as you stream. Networking? What is it? Follow the live notifications that pop up in ⁠the Dojo of Lives Chat to them, follow them, make friends with them. Do this and soon you’ll see those people in your chat when you stream. Understand that the discord networks are a vehicle for you to use, it’s not a link drop site, and it’s not an affiliate badge stamping press. You still have to put in the work.

Be supportive, be interactive with people when you go to support. Chat for 5 or 10 minutes, then you can hold a tab and go chat to someone else. Try and make the creator smile, we all know how scary it is when we start, and the only thing said in chat is “tabbed you bro”.

Don’t have follower or subscriber only chat turned on, this is for 10k + viewers, not 10+. Supporters won’t stay and chat if they are forced into following first.

Take your brand seriously right from the start or no one else will. Have a bio and profile pic.

Be YOU. Don’t put on an act. It’s exhausting. Just act like yourself and HAVE FUN. People want to hang out where it’s a nice and fun atmosphere, not with Boring Bob that never talks more than a grunt. Perseverance and consistency are the key to success. How much effort you are willing to put in, coupled with the advice above. will determine the speed of your growth

Viewer bots harm your average over time and are basically spy-ware for Twitch, these are the bots that ‘listen’ to your music to see if its DMCA free or not.

Have trusted Moderators. One of the jobs of your Twitch Moderators is to ban these bots during your live stream. Here is a searchable list of all know Twitch Viewer Bots. The only bot’s you don’t ban are CommanderRoot, and ones like blerp, that are used by the streamer. https://twitchinsights.net/bots

Make sure you have Sery_Bot joined to your channel and protecting you. Anyone can attack your stream when you’re live if you have NOTHING protecting you. A lot of streams have no bots protecting them and believe it when it’s said that it DOES happen, people attack your stream for no reason at all. PLEASE go to https://www.twitch.tv/sery_bot and type “!join” in the chat bar, then follow the instructions. It’s free, quick and easy to set up, and Sery has saved a lot of asses on many, many occasions.

Non-Affiliate Advice for the non-affiliates. This is crucial information, so be sure to have a look.

Keep your streams short. Try to aim for 1.5 – 2-hour streams with high viewer numbers. Viewers, even supporters, will come in at the start and stay for a while, but no one sits and watches an 11-hour stream. The higher total number of hours streamed over the last 30 days determines how easy it is to shift your average!

Get your game sound and voice channel balanced*. On Xbox, run game sound at 10% and voice at 100%. No one wants to hear AK47 gunfire or grenades exploding and unable to hear YOU! We came to talk to you, not be deafened by the game!

Have a mic. It doesn’t have to be expensive. A reasonably priced headset with a good sounding mic is a MUST. You don’t have to have a webcam, but you are going to struggle to hold viewers if they can’t hear you.

Interact with your chat. We don’t stream just to play a game. We stream for interactions with a community of people. You can’t build that unless you get to know your viewers. If it’s final circle in a competition you’re exempt, but it’s ok to die for chat otherwise.

Network twice as much as you stream. Networking? What is it? Follow the live notifications that pop up in ⁠the Dojo of Lives Chat to them, follow them, make friends with them. Do this and soon you’ll see those people in your chat when you stream. Understand that the discord networks are a vehicle for you to use, it’s not a link drop site, and it’s not an affiliate badge stamping press. You still have to put in the work.

Be supportive, be interactive with people when you go to support. Chat for 5 or 10 minutes, then you can hold a tab and go chat to someone else. Try and make the creator smile, we all know how scary it is when we start, and the only thing said in chat is “tabbed you bro”.

Don’t have follower or subscriber only chat turned on, this is for 10k + viewers, not 10+. Supporters won’t stay and chat if they are forced into following first.

Take your brand seriously right from the start or no one else will. Have a bio and profile pic.

Be YOU. Don’t put on an act. It’s exhausting. Just act like yourself and HAVE FUN. People want to hang out where it’s a nice and fun atmosphere, not with Boring Bob that never talks more than a grunt. Perseverance and consistency are the key to success. How much effort you are willing to put in, coupled with the advice above. will determine the speed of your growth

Viewer bots harm your average over time and are basically spy-ware for Twitch, these are the bots that ‘listen’ to your music to see if its DMCA free or not.

Have trusted Moderators. One of the jobs of your Twitch Moderators is to ban these bots during your live stream. Here is a searchable list of all know Twitch Viewer Bots. The only bot’s you don’t ban are CommanderRoot, and ones like blerp, that are used by the streamer. https://twitchinsights.net/bots

Make sure you have Sery_Bot joined to your channel and protecting you. Anyone can attack your stream when you’re live if you have NOTHING protecting you. A lot of streams have no bots protecting them and believe it when it’s said that it DOES happen, people attack your stream for no reason at all. PLEASE go to https://www.twitch.tv/sery_bot and type “!join” in the chat bar, then follow the instructions. It’s free, quick and easy to set up, and Sery has saved a lot of asses on many, many occasions.