Improving your live stream quality directly impacts your viewer retention and engagement. Purchasing a better mic, camera and capture card are obvious technical items to improve, but you can also work on better alerts, banners, webcam overlays and software based improvements in SLOBS, OBS and XSplit for free.

***SPONSORED BY RESTREAM***

Facebook Gaming is a growth focused live streaming platform that enables small streamers to go from low concurrent viewers to 50+ and 100+ fast. In this episode of the podcast we discuss what Awall Digital and Ashral have been been doing to accelerate their growth on Facebook Gaming so you can grow your gaming live stream faster in 2020 and beyond.

***SPONSORED BY RESTREAM***

Multi-streaming to all platforms such as Facebook Gaming, Twitch, YouTube Gaming and Twitter's Periscope can help you best understand where you can gain viewers. With the recent closure of Mixer, you need to be careful putting all of your gaming live stream eggs into one basket. In this podcast, we detail where growth is possible based on our own testing using Restream.io!

***SPONSORED BY RESTREAM***

Facebook Gaming is a wide open opportunity for small to mid-sized streamers to grow. Awall walks you through his testing on paying for page likes based on games interest. He also covers how effective (or not) Facebook Groups are at promoting streams. We discuss the important of catchy titles for your streams and how that can have a direct impact on growth.

Facebook Gaming finds itself in a position as the "new" hot platform for gaming live streamers. However, there are major shortcomings that come along with streaming on Facebook Gaming that we cover in this episode. One of the primary concerns is getting viewers to stay on your stream once they have arrived. Facebook appears to reward returning viewers as a primary metric for success as a result.

Facebook Gaming gaming has emerged at the 3rd largest gaming live stream platform and they are rolling out new features and updates non-stop. Facebook Gaming has new monetization features, breaks for streamers, and many other innovations that they hope will accelerate their growth vs Twitch and YouTube Gaming.

Mixer is closing down on June 22nd, 2020 and over 4 million streamers have to decide what they will do next. Microsoft "partnered" with Facebook Gaming (paid deal most likely) to give Mixer streamers a new home. Facebook Gaming is reportedly offering $2500 to Mixer Partners for 90 days of exclusivity. Should Mixer streamers move to Facebook Gaming, Twitch or YouTube Gaming? We weigh in on the topic and provide our expert analysis.

Your streams need to be fun, welcoming, and engaging if you want any chance of succeeding as a live streamer. The competition is too high to ignore chat or to leave any valuable comment without a response in 2020. Silence is deafening, and chugging some coffee and getting social during your stream is one of the top ways to get people to like you and become returning viewers to build your channel.

Is having more YouTube subscribers and social media followers actually better for your prospects of going full-time as a creator or influencer? So many YouTubers are chasing major subscriber milestones like 100,000 and 1,000,000 like that means they have made it. The bottom line is that having a smaller, select few people that follow you can be better for business and make you happier as a creator.

Telling your viewers to like, subscribe, enable notifications, and comment below is super cringe worthy as a content creator. You should be focusing on delivering value to your viewers as quickly as possible and skip the intro. Also, there is no need to force humor in your content to be "entertaining". People watch internet content so they can avoid scripted and disingenuous old media to see real people being themselves.