In today’s day and age, streaming has become extremely popular among people of all ages, especially teens. It has turned into a trend and is almost implemented in all types of social and video streaming platforms. This has also opened brand new opportunities for businesses and individuals to not only express their inner thoughts live but also make use of it for marketing and generate a new income funnel through it.
But is it that easy to do. Just go live and people will only listen to you. That’s just wishful thinking. Watching so many streams after it came out people have gotten used to it and don’t get impressed that easily. Their standards have risen.
It’s a fact that brands sponsor a streamer to promote their products but it’s also that they don’t sponsor all streamers they come across. They only sponsor those who have high enough subscribers and views. Cause newcomers initially have no follower base whatsoever. But after they have enough subscribers they start getting such offers.
So how did they grow such subscribers? Did they bribe people to subscribe to their accounts? On opened a lot of accounts liked themselves? Nope, they didn’t do such things. Besides, if they did this would be caught on the spot and even be banned.
They simply made videos that their targeted viewers wanted to see. Thus gaining their approval which resulted in the growth of their viewers and subscribers. Here are some tips that can help you to become a better streamer and help to grow your subscribers and followers.
# Carefully choosing your topic
Before doing anything you should decide upon what should be your main topic. It’s very basic and the most crucial part of streaming. If the topic and the related materials deviate from the expectations of your targeted viewer then it will cost you. For instance, depending on the topic you would be researching on the materials that would during the streams but if you choose a topic for which wouldn’t be able to gather the needed data materials and to fill the blind spots with your own imagination then it will cause more harm than good. And if it’s a very sensitive topic you might even face a catastrophe for your poor streaming. So it’s wise to choose a topic that goes along with what the viewers want and also you are able to get all the data materials of it on time.
# Going with the trend
A person’s mindset doesn’t always stay the same all the time. With time their habits, likes, dislikes, etc. everything changes. What they call their favorite today might become the thing that they would hate in the future. The same goes for what type of content they want. So whenever you think about what to stream you should always keep the current trend in mind. Not only does it keep your existing viewers happy but also attracts new viewers as well.
# Keep a schedule
Don’t do streams whenever you feel like it. You should keep a schedule so that your views don’t miss out on it and you can make most of it. If you randomly stream whenever you want then not only will you miss out on most of your viewers but also they could get annoyed and might leave you.
# Choose the right platform
After taking all the preparations you have to choose which video platforms you want to use to stream. With the increase in the popularity of streaming, there are a lot of platforms available for streaming. Some of them are old and well known like youtube, twitch, and many more, while others might be new but have a scope to succeed like streaming plug all of them are good picks but it’s up to you to choose in which platform you should stream. Thus I would suggest that you should look into which platforms suit your content and also has most of your targetted audience then go ahead with those. Cause depending on the place you stream in your viewership will vary.
