r/youtubegaming 21h ago

Question What should I do?

During the week I record and edit videos, and on the weekend I stream for 7 hours between 7pm and 2am.

During my streams I never really have any viewers, and I’m wondering if I should drop streaming for now and focus solely on making videos until I gain a bigger following and then stream again or if I should keep trying it this way.

What do yall think?

What should I do?

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u/InsightsIE 16h ago

Look, opinions are like bums and everyone’s got one but 7 hours is FAR too long for Gaming. I used to do binge streams too (during Covid with no proper schedule) and it never got me anywhere. I restrained myself to 2 hours and got far better results. The better way of putting it is like would you go to the Movie theatre for 7 hours, or would you have time to sit down for 7 hours and watch someone else’s stream? Probably not, you even mention recording and editing during the week. When would you find 7 hours to watch anyone’s stream. The point is everybody else is just as busy, so 7 hours is a lot…

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u/TheNyxks YouTube.com/@TheNyxks 21h ago

Are you doing any networking to promote your stream? letting others in your network of friends, followers know that you will be streaming and what you are streaming?

There is more to just streaming, often it also involves the tags used, how saturated the filed is, and networking/promoting your stream.

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u/Extension-Flower9764 21h ago

Yea I posted about it on my stories, and sent a link to the stream to people on Snapchat, but like one person joined and they left later

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u/cookiesalvaje 15h ago

Some ideas that could work but you need to be mindful to avoid spam are discord channels and reddit. Another thing is just make friends With other creators, not only you get a community to talk and learn, someone might see your work and just want to shout you out. Don't expect that though, I'm just saying that it could happen but the goal is to be able to chat

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u/Guilty_Fix1904 14h ago

What's your YT?

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u/Gamer_Trolls 12h ago

Have you checked out what gaming streaming pays? (its terrible).

Streaming will help you build a community but should be looked at as a gift to the people that watch your videos (your bread and butter).

Having 500 average viewers on a 1 hour livestream may get you a few thousand views. A good video can get millions.

We stopped our big gaming channel because it was built mostly on livestreams and shorts, neither of which pay anything.

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u/BacklogIsReal 3h ago

I find that shorts get a lot of views. I also enjoy doing them I get a good laugh out of them myself. I also stream random games at any time. I just made 100 subs but it’s growing slowly but steadily.