RE: 🔴 Superchat: Test Hangout! 👍
I personally haven't seen a ton of income from SuperChat on YT but we don't have a ton of live viewers there. They live on Twitch for us. And Twitch has come back hard. They'v opened up monetization streams a LOT so even smaller streamers can start to see income from Bits that are spent on the platform.
YouNow is also on a big growth trajectory and people there can tip while they watch as well. (The demographics for YouNow are currently pretty young but there's no reason that can't change. I'm looking at test streams in YouNow soon.)
I will say that in some ways, minus the existence of a Patreon account, streaming has a LOT of potential for monetized content. I would argue even easier that YouTube, since YT payouts per mille are still super low. Direct support from your audience has a much bigger ROI than leaning on ads and have for a LONG time.
I'd suggest diving in and playing with it. You can also simulcast to all at once with some services like Restream.io
Remember too that Twitch and YT both will either demonetize or mute your archives if they find copywritten material. But that only matters if you care about monetization on archives. If you're looking to generate income during the stream then there are plenty of royalty free libraries for music and stuff on spotify and others that can be used as background.
@markgatx Outstanding insights brother! I feel very fortunate especially with your experience. I was on younow in the very beginning when the synced a file to your YouTube automatically. Back then only partners could get tips and then they removed the backup video for non-partners so I was out. Will have another look around for sure, she what's new there.
I'd love to get my twitch going and set up but having issues with account set up, access and verification. That's really been my main hold up from not linking my PS4. When I get back from this trip I'm going to contact them again and if no luck crack on with YT for now.
I really want it to work out there, so we'll see. Thanks for the extra tips about music and split streaming. I used to work with wirecast back in my adult days and can probably figure it out if I can justify putting my hand in my pocket again for that license and a bit more robust hardware.
Anyway, will follow the excitement and man I appreciate the advice. Knew I could count on ya buddy! 👊💯
Curious what features you're looking for in Wirecast. You may be able to get what you need in OBS Studio and that's free. Restream is also free unless you want to multicast to some platforms, like Facebook.
Happy to help people when I can so let me know if you need anything.
Oh no I just meant that with wirecast I could split stream and also was just familiar with the shot layouts it had and how to control everything. It was also really easy to modify sources. I know OBS seems to be the gamers choice and yeah of course free is sweet too.
I'm definitely not looking to do anything fancy with my stream right now, not for now anyway. Just getting back into it all seems really exciting to me. If only I could figure out my old twitch account.. soemone else has already nabbed my name so sucks for branding.
Psstt....
Nice bro.. I've sent in another email to twitch support to help me get in to my old account. That is pretty darn good perhaps I should register that in another email address or something! Thanks for the nudge bro :)