Using Comments to Collate Twitch Clips
One tactic experienced streamers use when using Twitch clips is to include times in the live stream when the live comments feed goes berserk.
Why? Understanding your audience as a streamer is key to understanding which parts of your live streams to clip. However, newbie streamers may be wondering which parts of your content to clip to create a shortened version of your live stream and use to advertise across various social media platforms.
Comments are a brilliant way to gauge what your audience likes. In reverse, when viewers are not commenting or interacting, these are cleary not the most exciting moments from your feed.
In this blog, we will help you understand several key points to help you increase your chances of attracting more viewers to your channel:
Learn just how powerful comments are.
Understand how to use excessive viewer engagement with the live comments box as a stat.
Use stat to guide you into creating more engaging videos when you use Twitch clips to collate special moments into a shorter video version of your live stream.
Discover how powerful shorter versions of your live stream are as a marketing tool to attract more viewers.
Here’s a quick recap of our past Twitch Clip Content:
On Streamrecorder, we’ve published plenty of content covering the topic of Twitch Clips. Many of them loosely cover the topic of clipping videos, but this particular blog is a game changer.
- Mastering Twitch Clip Downloads
- How to create a clip from a VOD
- New Clip Creator Online Now
Twitch Clipping Comment Action to Highlight Special Moments
You can relate to this moment as a regular Twitch streamer.
There are times during a Twitch stream when you have plenty of time to catch the live comments and comment back.
Suddenly, there are those moments when the comments go ballistic, and you struggle to read the comments as the feed goes into hyperdrive.
When you play back your live stream, point number 2 should catch your eye. Those comments are valuable stats that can tell you exactly which parts of your stream create the most user engagement.
When the Comments Go Wild, You Have the Perfect Clip Content
The ‘ballistic’ comments trigger during special moments. Whether you are watching an eSports match, musical showpiece, or hot tub discussion, these action moments in the comments give you a perfect indicator of which moments are popular and ideal for your Twitch clip video.
One of the best ways to gauge the best moments viewers enjoyed in your stream is to use excessive comments, an effective marketing tactic. For example, marketers use software to gauge trending topics on social media to produce content that will attract viewers or readers.
Using comments as your gauge to clip special moments will boost your Twitch username’s appeal with multiple audiences:
- You attract more viewers who don’t want to watch your stream in full.
Your clipped version of your live stream will appeal to viewers in a hurry or those who prefer to cram in as many streams as possible in a short time.
You can use the shortened versions of your stream to attract people to the full stream and future live streams.
- If you are clipping the action moments using proven data (comments), you will attract Twitch viewers to your live stream.
In both cases, you already know that by using excessive periods of comments, you have some of the best moments that appeal to a broad audience. As a result, you are using this tactic as a building block to make your channel more appealing and, thus, more successful.
Why Collate Twitch Clips to Create Shorter Versions of Your Streams?
For all you Twitch streamers out there, clipping your live streams to shorten your stream into highlight videos is a tool that has, time and again, proven to increase viewership. A one-hour stream can be reduced to 5 to 10 minutes of pure action (for eSports) or heated topics (hot tub streams).
There is no doubt that Twitch clips are the most helpful tool for collating and saving memorable moments for your audience. The goal is to create a shortened version of your original stream that you can use as an advertising tool.
- Upload the shortened version to social media to attract more viewers to your channel.
- A shorter version of your live streams attracts Twitch viewers who prefer to watch highlights.
The key to becoming a successful live Twitch streamer is to produce engaging live streams and attract a variety of viewers to your channel. The two bullet points above are the two types of audiences that you are looking to attract via the Twitch platform itself.
Using Twitch Clips to Create Shorter Videos for Advertising
Now that you are armed with the right Twitch clip moments, you are ready to attract stream viewers from platforms like YouTube or Facebook to your Twitch channel. In turn, this will increase the number of people viewing, recording, and engaging with your live streams.
The key to this part of the guide is not to get mixed up with ‘shorts’ and ‘shorter videos.’
Shorter Videos: Using multiple Twitch clips from your live stream and collating them into a shorter video to use as an advertising tool to attract more viewers.
Shorts: If you want to use shorts, these are up to 60 seconds. You can use a single or a few short clips to advertise moments from your live stream or live streams.
All you need to do now is decide when and where to use shorter videos or shorts. If you study other successful streamers, you’ll notice they tend to mix it up across a variety of social media platforms, and they make it clear that they feature on Twitch.
Social Media Platforms for Advertising
You are likely aware of most social media platforms that allow you to post video content, but here are some ideas for good measure.
X (formerly Twitter): There is a premium version, plus you can use advertising to attract users to your X channel and direct them to your Twitch channel.
YouTube: There are a variety of options on YouTube. You can use paid video advertising via Google or simply build your channel by uploading videos via your YouTube channel and uploading YouTube shorts.
Instagram: You can use Instagram for shorts, as most people who watch videos on this channel are looking for quick and snappy content.
The platforms in the list will allow you to post shorts and short videos. How you decide to deliver these videos is a whole new marketing topic altogether.
Now You Are Ready to Collate the Ultimate Twitch Clip Moments!
If you can attract more viewers to your live stream, to state the obvious, you will have more viewer engagement.
However, what is not so obvious is that you are increasing that ultimate stat we’ve been covering in this blog, i.e., you’ll have more comments, which, as we have already established, is one of the best stats you can use to decide the best Twitch Clips to use when resting shorter videos.
Not only does this tactic heighten your chances of attracting more viewers to your live stream via Twitch, but you can also use Twitch clips to attract more viewers from other streaming channels while building an audience on those platforms, too.
