Starting in a competitive market

Hey folks, so I'm looking to get started into gaming videos. I have a few games I play, I'm not the worlds best player but I'm top 10% meaning I'm not truly trash. I have good ideas of what people want to see and my end goal is to traffic everyone from YouTube to my twitch stream to get me started that way!

My question is what is the blueprint to penetrate this market. I know there must be a blueprint, I don't mind paying for this and I have capital to invest!

Any help is appreciated,

Cheers folks!

ThePaidAssassin said:

Hey folks, so I'm looking to get started into gaming videos. I have a few games I play, I'm not the worlds best player but I'm top 10% meaning I'm not truly trash. I have good ideas of what people want to see and my end goal is to traffic everyone from YouTube to my twitch stream to get me started that way!

My question is what is the blueprint to penetrate this market. I know there must be a blueprint, I don't mind paying for this and I have capital to invest!

Any help is appreciated,

Cheers folks!

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Firstly, do not pay for any kind of guide or blueprint. Nowadays it is a waste of time. All the info you need is out there for free I can assure you. Very few YouTube secrets and the good secrets can't be bought anyways.

I believe that you're probably making the right move focusing on YouTube before Twitch. With Twitch, content is for the most part ranked based on number of viewers, starting from near 0 is very tough. YouTube's ranking and recommendation algorithms do favour more popular content but you can still grow from nothing with the right strategy. Building a small fanbase elsewhere then converting them to Twitch viewers makes sense.

Now, it doesn't really matter how good you are at games. What matter is why are people going to watch you over the other millions of gamers? Is it your editing skills? Storytelling ability? Charisma and delivery? Comedy? Gaming skills? Your content needs an edge, or you have to be a brilliant marketer, or get unimaginably lucky. The fact you didn't mention any kind of edge makes me think you're going to have problems.

YouTube SEO guides are out there, guides on how to drive traffic to a new channel/videos are out there. But for the kind of channel you're talking about launching, you need something more then the basic marketing strategies to be successful. You actually need to have 'great' content.