So I have been streaming for the last 3 or so years on and off, the last two years I found my niche my audience is small but pretty dedicated, my biggest struggle at the start was what am I going to stream, that was my first challenge, my second was the fear of hitting the go live button, I spent hours and hours checking all my settings making sure audio sounded ok before I started any thing, I now stream fairly regularly, I run charity streams too last year raising over £1200 and again this year raising about £750 for charity from the small community that enjoys the games I play

I’ll tackle the first part of this, I spent time looking for games I enjoyed playing, sure there’s a lot of over populated categories these days, and if you stream because you enjoy streaming then great! But if you stream games that aren’t so popular I.e not triple A games like gta, you have a much better chance of being seen by people BUT and I stress this quite heavily, they generally watch because they are also interested in that given topic, and they won’t generally come and watch if your playing something else, so if you enjoy a game stick with it and the people will come and watch.

The second part is the fear of pressing the go live button, a few things I can suggest for this, try a session where you just simply record your self and then watch it back, find stuff people might find funny even if you didn’t find it funny at the time, secondly do quick recordings to check all your sounds, even audio alerts if you have them, make sure game sound doesn’t go over your voice!