How to grow
on Twitch.

1. A schedule people can find

You can set a stream schedule in your Creator Dashboard, and it shows on your channel. It also pays off in other people's streams: per Twitch, when someone shouts you out, the shoutout shows your next scheduled stream with a button to set a reminder. Pick days and times you can keep for months. A smaller schedule you always keep beats a big one you break.

2. Category and tags

In the biggest categories, a new channel sits at the bottom of a very long list. Look for a category where you land on the first screen, or a game that is new and not crowded yet.

Tags help too. Twitch lets you add up to 10 custom tags in Stream Manager, under Edit Stream Info. Use them for what makes you different: your language, your style, your community. The category name is added for you. Twitch's Discovery Analytics shows which tags actually brought views.

3. Raids, shoutouts and collabs

• Raids: at the end of your stream, type /raid and a channel name to send your whole chat to them. Twitch calls raiding a great way to meet creators. Raid people your size, and many will remember you.
• Shoutouts: /shoutout plus a name shows your viewers a Follow button for that channel. You can use it once every two minutes, and once an hour for the same person.
• Shared Chat and Stream Together: stream with other creators and merge your chats, up to 6 collaborators per Twitch's help. Collabs are the fastest way to meet a whole new audience that already likes streams like yours.

4. Clips are your discovery engine

Most people who find a new streamer today find them through a short video on TikTok, YouTube Shorts or Reels. Twitch knows this: clips get a portrait version automatically, and viewers can post clips straight to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.

Do it yourself too. After every stream, post your best two or three moments as vertical clips with captions and your channel name in the caption. Twitch clips to Shorts and when to post Twitch clips on TikTok cover the details.

5. Make the stream worth staying for

• Talk even when chat is empty. A new viewer decides in seconds. Silence reads as a dead stream.
• Say hi to every new chatter by name.
• Clean audio beats a fancy overlay.
• Use the tools: Twitch's Creator Camp has free lessons on categories, raiding, collaborating and social media.

Money comes later. For the Affiliate bar and payouts, see how to get paid on Twitch.

Where ReelShift fits

Posting clips after every stream is the part most streamers drop, because finding and editing the moments takes hours. ReelShift watches your Twitch stream while you are live, cuts the best moments, and gives you vertical clips with captions within minutes. Say "clip that" on stream to save the last 60 seconds. See the Twitch clipper.