I'm kind of doing it right now. My back story - I have been streaming on Twitch for a little over a year now and managed to grow to a little over 10 viewer average, with some days being much better and others being a little worse. Mid spring, I was starting to get a bit frustrated. It seemed like growth was super slow.

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I had 2 issues:

1. I was a part time streamer - I streamed 5 days a week but only 2 hours a day. To really organically grow on Twitch, you have to put in a ton of hours. As streamers stop their streams, viewers will start to meander in. But a 2 hour window is not near enough time to grow it or for you to even be discovered (and have a chance of growing a community.
2. Twitch's Algorithm ....which favors the streamers with the most viewers at the moment. Even though I play niche games, I started to figure out that for most games, the tipping point is around 20 viewers to get in the top 5 for most games. Have 10? You are somewhere in the middle. >5? To the bottom you go. Since most people who are scanning for someone to watch will naturally tend toward the top of the list, the chances for organic growth lowers with every position.

So, how does a barely part time streamer experience growth? The path I am taking is to find my own community elsewhere....

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Over the summer, I went on a sabbatical from Twitch and started focusing on YouTube videos. My thoughts here was that with YouTube, you are basically "on" 24/7. If you can convert say....1-2% into becoming a twitch follower, then that would be 10-20 per 1,000 subs. Those may be pie in the sky numbers but I'm sure you catch my drift here. I got this idea from watching YTers making the switch to Twitch and watching their conversion numbers.

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I also started a website with content on the game I'm playing. Tips and what not. I've treated the website as a redheaded step child so far but have noticed that it is getting views for a couple articles that are game specific (I post a youtube video with it). Also, YouTube is favoring 1-2 of my game tutorials which I think is partly due to the response of the website articles. Weird how that works, right?

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So, results? Well, this is a work in progress and I've just recently returned to Twitch but my main focus has been on promotion through YT. What I've noticed is that I've gotten a few YT viewers pushed over to Twitch. I'm still really, super duper small though.....like I just passed 300 subs today. But slowly adding a viewer here that's converted from YT should help with my numbers over time.

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Just my thoughts on this