What are the best ways to engage your Twitch community?

In order to engage your audience on Twitch it's important to keep a consistent schedule this way your viewers can expect the stream at the same time each week. In addition I would start looking into new ways to produce your stream such as learning how to add effects, and adding certain tools to allow chat to interact with your stream. Always be willing to try something and fail. Whether this be the stream content itself or the extra things you add on. You can also cater to a certain group of viewers. This can be games, vlogging, or even political discourse. Make your identity in Twitch reflect what you are interested in and be as genuine as possible. Viewers appreciate when someone is truly passionate about what they stream.

Keep a schedule of streaming. This way people will come to your channel every day or the three same times a week you stream, just like they would for a TV show.

Most people may say “keep a consistent schedule” and while that’s not entirely wrong many miss the logic behind it. Audiences like to know when you’re going to be live. Going live at the same times on the same days is simple way to do that without having to go out of your way to communicate with your audience. But this can often times led to burn out because streamers don’t want to “hurt” their growth by deviating from their schedules. The real key is communication. Whether that’s through keeping a consistent schedule or publishing a schedule week by week. Being consistent in your communication makes you a reliable creator but still allows for flexibility content creators need to prevent burnout.

Discord communities are important to keep subscribers and fans engaged. It builds community and if done correctly gives people ownership of a part of your brand.

While it might sound counterintuitive, investing in equipment should be one of the last steps content creators should take. Cheaper equipment is much easier to use, you’re paying for less features. Take microphones for example: a higher quality microphone picks up much more sound and has to be placed in more specific locations to get the most out of its capabilities. This means creators have to learn how to filter their mics so they’re not peaking or picking up unwanted background noise. Learning filters and plugins is much easier to do when you have less features and settings to worry about. Mastering how to make a lower quality mic sound good is easier than making a high quality mic sound good.