Uploading to YouTube
Hello! I’ve been streaming quite a lot lately. I was lucky to have part of a community from another streamer so I’ve had a small but pretty active following since I started. That being said, I’m looking to grow a bit.
I’ve heard that a lot of people grow by putting clips and such in other places, which makes sense, but what about the potential for longer term content? I’m talking full length videos, maybe some reaching upwards of an hour or longer (for example, one of the games I play is Cities Skylines, which tends to have longer videos on YouTube).
I know some people upload their VODs. Is this beneficial for your Twitch channel? Do you trim down more than the start/brb/ending streams? What do you do about chat messages/conversations that aren’t necessarily related to the game? What about deadspace that didn’t feel so empty while on stream but feels a little empty as a video? I’ve seen people say they keep VODs for an archive but I haven’t seen many people talk about the growth it brings.
Finally, is it worth trying to convert a Twitch stream into smaller, digestible videos, considering the fact that you’re having conversations with people in chat that might not be relevant to the game at all? I feel like it could be distracting to someone that wasn’t involved in the conversation, but as someone who personally only occasionally watches VODs for people they already watch, I’m not sure about the target demographic here. It feels like it makes more sense to make videos for YouTube that then promote your Twitch.
I realise these are a lot of questions in this post so maybe it would be best to take it as a discussion of opinions and experiences. Just trying to grow my channel a bit and figure out what the next step is!