Can you actually make money streaming with under 100 viewers? What does real monetization look like at small scale?
Hey so I stream off and on but want to be more consistent with it. I hover around 6-10 viewers depending on the day. I'm still working on building a community but I don't know if there is any realistic path to making any money at this size or if monetization is basically just not in my wheelhouse until I get bigger.
I am a Twitch affiliate so I'm in that program and get subs and bits occasionally but I know money is tight for a lot of people in this economy so I don't wanna push viewers too hard. Also I have streamer friends who sub to me and I sub back and it feels like we're all just wasting money and giving 50% of it to Twitch, but we want to show each other support and be able to watch without ads and use each others emotes. (these are real friends not any follow 4 follow sub 4 sub bs btw)
I know people use patreon and have merch but those all feel like things that only work once you have a big audience who wanna rep your brand. But maybe I'm wrong?
Guess what I'm getting at is I wanna know how do you make money and at what viewer count did you start really seeing any change to this? How do you get sponsorships and make money if its not thru Twitch?
Also I'm not looking to get rich and leave my job just get some extra money that can be used to get better streaming gear and buy games with. Maybe even some money to put into giveaways.