Five things I wish I knew before I started streaming on Twitch.
Picture this, you're searching for content about a game that's just released and you want to know if it's something you may want to play. You decide to go on to Twitch to see a livestream of said game as you think that you'll get more genuine reactions and impressions of the game from the streamer. You find a stream you like the look of, click on it and settle in to see what the game is like. As you're watching, you see an active chat, stream notifications going off whenever someone follows, donates or subscribes and the streamer is having fun. You think to yourself, "This is something I could do". You start to research what you need, get your Twitch account all setup, sort out your streaming software and click "Go Live". You stream for a few hours and you have maybe one or two people come in to the chat, or maybe none at all. You sign off, close your streaming software and think "I thought this was easy, why did no one show up?"