Earlier this afternoon the Twitch Subreddit posted up a new thread for channel feedback. Subreddit users are allowed to post their channel for review by the community. If you’ve been wondering what you can do to improve our channel this is the perfect forum. Remember, this is all constructive criticism to make your channel as best as it can be. Click the link below to read and submit your channel.
Gaming For Fun And Profit – A Pro’s Guide To Game Streaming
Playing games can be a form of leisure. It can be a way to socialize with friends. It can be a sport. And now, for many, it’s a job. While livestreaming can earn you fame and fortune, it’s difficult to become a big-name streamer. We’ve made it a little easier for you by turning to some established pros for advice on how to turn your game time into a show that people might actually want to watch.
Our Pros:
RULE 1: Make a schedule and keep it
Ross: It’s very important to have a schedule. People need to know when you’ll be on air. You need to make it easy for them. It’s essential in the early days of a streamer’s career that you find a schedule and stick to it. Bonus streams with little notice are a nice treat for your fans. It’s extra content for them to enjoy. Continue reading Gaming For Fun And Profit – A Pro’s Guide To Game Streaming
Beam Announcing Light
Last week, Beam launched our first public iteration of our fully HTML5 Light Player. It’s an industry first, and it embodies a significant amount of technical innovation, allowing us to further customize and enhance the viewing experience.
This platform will enable us to deeper integrate video streams and other components such as chat, polls, and other secrets in ways that would have been very difficult with Flash. We’ll be able to continue to reduce stream delay, and use even fewer resources while doing it.
A Tale of Two Protocols
Since the dawn of time computing, two protocols have ruled the live streaming world: RTMP, and HLS. Continue reading Beam Announcing Light
Twitch Launches Broadcaster Language Mode
To give the international and multilingual users a more cohesive chat experience, we’ve launchedBroadcaster Language Mode. Turn on Broadcaster Language Mode to let your community chat exclusively in your preferred language with other native language speakers. Continue reading Twitch Launches Broadcaster Language Mode
Make a video. Win an all-access Purple Ticket to TwitchCon!
Do you love Twitch? Want to celebrate video games and broadcasting at the ultimate Twitch convention? You’re in luck!
Twitch is offering to fly out one special fan (and their friend) to San Francisco with an all-access pass (that means VIP party access, meet and greets with top broadcasters, tour of the event with Twitch staff, & more!) for TwitchCon, but we want to learn more about you before we pick somebody. Here’s the challenge: Continue reading Make a video. Win an all-access Purple Ticket to TwitchCon!