A year ago, I made a video that discussed Twitch VS YouTube, and at the time it was accurate, however, A LOT has changed over the past year, and now I want to clear up a common misconception that Creators like myself caused, and bring to light all the new updates, features, and changes that make those other videos or ideas outdated

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Why Is Twitch Discovery Not Good for Small Streamers

Twitch sorts their categories by most viewers, which means it is what we call a Kingmaker system, essentially when one Streamer gets lots of viewers, they rise to the top of the category or get more recommendations causing them to get more viewers who come browsing Twitch.

So beginners or small streamers often sit right down at the bottom of the categories and never get any clicks, because nobody scrolls down 20,000 streamers to find them, and nobody uses the filters over here to check by recommended or smallest despite what you might hope.

In reality, very few even check categories, most Viewers actually go straight to their Follower List or Favourite streamer meaning discovery on Twitch is relatively slow to start out.

Think about it, when you type twitch.tv into your bar, it usually autocompletes to your favourite streamers channel, not to a specific category or the homepage.

This kingmaker system has led to A LOT of outcry from smaller creators asking Twitch to do more for them and their discovery and in turn the same reason why educators such as myself or harris often push you guys to diversify across other platforms with algorithms such as TikTok or YouTube… even if you hate that advice with all your heart.

Timestamps:

0:00 Eljay Gets Cheeky
1:20 Why Do People Think YouTube Streaming Will Fail?
3:20 Why Those People Are Wrong About YouTube Streaming?
5:30 How YouTube Solved Streamer Discovery!
6:30 How My YouTube Streaming Is Going!
7:00 Why YouTube Streaming Is Fine Without Categories
8:00 Why Streamers Should Stream On YouTube In 2023
10:10 Clearing Up The Final Misconception

What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?

The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.

Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up

By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.

If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.

For more information visit this Bitrate graph: https://stream.twitch.tv/

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