I think I am done with this research of mine and the conclusion probably won’t surprise you if you did exactly as I did and if it’s surprised you, probably you should do your own research.
Conclusions:
1. Streamers need to work on VOD as the MAIN part of content, not leave it at secondary or depending entirely on streaming to create new content.
2. Be sure to know how YouTube works in the sense of keywords, tags, valid descriptions, quality thumbnails and check the concept of Search Engine Optimizations.
3. DO NOT EMULATE bigger streamers, they can take chances… YOU DON’T if you don’t want to be lost in the algorithms at early days!
4. Gameplays and Walkthrough (unfortunately) are hard to capitalize on and maybe they fall on point 3.
5. Avoid filling your channels with highlights or at least don’t make it your primary content, social media is saturated and people are getting sick of it if there is no context (like game rage collection for a direct and popular example).
6. Advise yourself before touching that “Register” button that gaming content creation is HEAVILY saturated and you WILL NOT GET INSTANT GROWTH unless you paid by a marketing team doing the dirty work, associated directly with a brand or celebrity or YOU being an already established celebrity.
7. Unbalancing VOD and Streaming in favor of VOD, VOD and proper call to action will be a great start for streaming audience boost.
8. NETWORK WITH OTHER CREATORS and if you manage to land in an established and stable org, DON’T BE A KANGAROO and jumping from org to org, specially if the org had content creation as primary focus rather to be the next “FaZe, Cloud9, etc. “ competitor…
9. Related to 8 and if an org relationship didn’t work out, keep the details of the fallout to yourself, even if you “are not the offending part”, venting the crap out of it showcase your unreliability to be shared sensitive info and not trustable for things requiring NDAs and needless to say it is childish and lame.
10. PATIENCE, content creators that are popular nowadays grinded their way for years and those who got “rapid growth” is probably that they already were content creators for others or started in the hey-days that is before 2015.
With this, the next few weeks will be brainstorming my first video to reboot my channel and probably I already identified my main niche and (maybe subsequent) other niches and when results are in, THEN I can begin talking about resuming streaming.
I think I am done with this research of mine and the conclusion probably won’t surprise you if you did exactly as I did and if it’s surprised you, probably you should do your own research.
Conclusions:
1. Streamers need to work on VOD as the MAIN part of content, not leave it at secondary or depending entirely on streaming to create new content.
2. Be sure to know how YouTube works in the sense of keywords, tags, valid descriptions, quality thumbnails and check the concept of Search Engine Optimizations.
3. DO NOT EMULATE bigger streamers, they can take chances… YOU DON’T if you don’t want to be lost in the algorithms at early days!
4. Gameplays and Walkthrough (unfortunately) are hard to capitalize on and maybe they fall on point 3.
5. Avoid filling your channels with highlights or at least don’t make it your primary content, social media is saturated and people are getting sick of it if there is no context (like game rage collection for a direct and popular example).
6. Advise yourself before touching that “Register” button that gaming content creation is HEAVILY saturated and you WILL NOT GET INSTANT GROWTH unless you paid by a marketing team doing the dirty work, associated directly with a brand or celebrity or YOU being an already established celebrity.
7. Unbalancing VOD and Streaming in favor of VOD, VOD and proper call to action will be a great start for streaming audience boost.
8. NETWORK WITH OTHER CREATORS and if you manage to land in an established and stable org, DON’T BE A KANGAROO and jumping from org to org, specially if the org had content creation as primary focus rather to be the next “FaZe, Cloud9, etc. “ competitor…
9. Related to 8 and if an org relationship didn’t work out, keep the details of the fallout to yourself, even if you “are not the offending part”, venting the crap out of it showcase your unreliability to be shared sensitive info and not trustable for things requiring NDAs and needless to say it is childish and lame.
10. PATIENCE, content creators that are popular nowadays grinded their way for years and those who got “rapid growth” is probably that they already were content creators for others or started in the hey-days that is before 2015.
With this, the next few weeks will be brainstorming my first video to reboot my channel and probably I already identified my main niche and (maybe subsequent) other niches and when results are in, THEN I can begin talking about resuming streaming.
