- Talking about money is always gonna be awkward
in every aspect of life.
I would always try and find a way to
explain to the viewer how you're using their tips
or their sub money or whatever it is
to better create content for your channel
whether it's upgrading equipment or otherwise.
And then if you wanna directly call out supporting,
remember that monetarily is not the only way to support.
Followers matter, viewers matter, they can watch ads,
there's a lot of ways to support content creators
outside of just Twitch or outside
of just monetary transactions.
- The best sort of mentality that I can give you
when it comes to this area
is imagine it's Christmas and Nana just gave you
a Christmas card that had 20 dollars in it.
You don't call Nana a couple months later
and say hey Nana, I bought tacos with that.
No, she gave you that and so did your viewers.
Be happy, be proud, spend your money on
what you want to spend it and don't feel the need
to explain yourself.
It's a very new feeling but just try to realize
that it's okay to spend the money that you've earned
on whatever it is that you would like.
- Definitely recommend. Going to check that out
and pay my bills with ad revenue.
- I like to stay in the mind of
a consumer and a viewer
and I know if I come in the stream and all
a person is talkin' about is pay me, pay me, pay me,
pay me, pay me, I'm not gonna be interested.
- Advertisements is essentially free revenue
that you should definitely take advantage of,
meaning I'm gonna get up, go to the restroom,
get a glass of water, et cetera, et cetera.
Before you do that, go to your Dashboard,
hit Run Commercial, tell your audience that you're going
to be doing that so they know they're not missing
any of the action, take advantage of it.
Subscribers is probably the most important
form of revenue on your channel.
Try to push it, try to grow, have sub goals,
have fun with it but subscriber count is easily
the most sustainable form of revenue in your channel.
- I'm gonna say here's how you can subscribe,
or if I have a lot going on, I might, you know,
here's the link to subscribe to me,
I'll run the command or I'll have a Mod run the command
or I'll say my little catch phrase,
you don't have to pay a dime if you subscribe,
with Twitch Prime.
- Twitch has a really unique and beneficial culture
where everybody is kind of accepted the idea of
tipping to get your message out there
or subscribe and support your content creator
or watching ads in exchange for Bits
or any of those other, you know,
methods of supporting and that's awesome.
It's a lot better than other websites
and I think that's a lot to do with the
type of people that use Twitch
and the community that Twitch has cultivated.
And I think that monetization-wise,
subscribers are the guaranteed best, most steady way
to gauge your month to month revenue.
So I would focus more on subs than anything else.
- What I like is that it's built in.
Other sites don't have it built in
like Twitch has it built in.
What I mean is, I can get,
you can get paid a multitude of ways
from Twitch through Twitch.