Editor’s note: We’ll be streaming PS4 games regularly over on the PlayStation Twitch channel — tune in!
It’s been less than a week since PS4 launched with Twitch broadcasting functionality, and the feedback we’ve been getting from new broadcasters has been phenomenal! To help new streamers ease into the Twitch community – which is already 45 million members strong – here are some tips for first-time broadcasters:
- Be a curator of conversations: Drive conversation with your viewers. Talk about everything and don’t just focus your conversation about the game or games in general. Talk about life, pop culture, music and everything in between.
- Go live longer than an hour: It might sound shocking at first, but Twitch is long-form entertainment. Our broadcasters stream for hours, so find a sweet spot and before you know it you’ll be rocking a 24-hour broadcast in celebration of a new game release.
- Find a genre: When laying the foundation for your channel, don’t feel the need to be the best at every game. However, if you are good at one genre (FPS, Platforming, Stealth…), focus on that until you get the swing for engaging between chat and gaming at the same time. It can be a challenge to be good at both, but hang in there — you’ll eventually kick off those training wheels.
- Have a regular broadcast schedule: This way your viewers can become aware of when a broadcast will happen. You want to post this schedule everywhere you can. The more informed the community is with your shows, the more people will show up.
- Try to have a camera and mic on: People want to see and hear you! There’s something very special about having a broadcaster looking right at the camera and talking directly to viewers, live. Plus, this will increase your viewership.
- Engage in the Twitch Universe: Broadcasting is built around community, whether it’s your community or someone else’s, so join other channels that you share a common interest in. This will give you crossover viewership.
- Authentic voice is essential: Go out there have fun! The more authentic your approach is, the more your viewers will connect with you.
I hope these tips will help get you started on your new broadcasting journey! To see all the PS4 content on Twitch, visit our PS4 directory. You can also rock a shirt from our new store, with all proceeds going to relief efforts surrounding Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Just make sure you don’t say anything about the Twitch admin team on your account.
I have a question i opened an account on Twitch but everytime i broadcast gameplay video from my ps4 it says that im broadcasting it on Justin.tv, why is that?
I’ve found a few bugs with the Twitch Live Stream from PlayStation 4 so far. When you change your Audio settings on the PS4 to [Bitstream Dolby] or [Bitstream DTS] you can’t hear the game audio in the broadcast. It only seems to work if you use the audio settings for [Linear PCM]
I find this downgrading on the player side and needs to be supported for Twitch. I personally haven’t use UStream yet to confirm if this is a issue across steaming on both services or if this is a Twitch issue. Either way I find it annoying and needs to be fixed.
@remanutd5 Justin.TV owns Twitch.TV its the same company and runs off the same services.
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Also like to have a options to use voice commands while playing a game by using the following commands: “PlayStation Take a Screenshot”, “PlayStation Start Recording/PlayStation Record That/PlayStation Record”, “PlayStation Stop Recording”.
Not in a desire demand need since its all built into the share button but would add a extra layer of simplicity to the PlayStation 4 when your already in the middle of a game and the player decides to start recording or broadcasting.)
Also to add to Voice Commands to Start and Stop a Broadcast/Broadcasting faster by enabling Voice Commands by saying “PlayStation Start Broadcast(ing)” It would start the broadcast with the settings the gamer wanted/wants the broadcast to start with like NO MIC, NO Camera, No Comments, With Comments, With Mic, With Camera etc.. And the ability to say PlayStation Stop Broadcast(ing)
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I really enjoyed the streaming today at your lunch. It was nice to see Ryan doing the typing. Haha. Maybe next time get him on camera!
I noticed there in point 2 you say go longer than an hour. Shame PlayStation only done like half an hour. :( Want longer next time! :D Can do half an hour per person with 2 or 3 people per day?
Thanks! Ryan actually streamed some Trine 2 Complete Story yesterday — and we went for an hour today! :D