Anyone here a successful Youtube/Twitch streamer or know one?

Wow, that true ? Looks like Casey Neistat makes roughly $1400 a day -- over 500k a year on videos. Not bad.

I know a guy that plays on twitch for 10 hours a day and works for 8. He spends 18 hours a day on the weekends streaming.

And he makes about $20 a week.

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LarrytheGolfer

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I know this is a troll thread, but for anyone who's thinking of doing this, I hope you have a really funny/interesting schtick that none of the other hundreds of youtube stars use.

And you are either really really really fricking good at a handful of games, or you are willing to buy new games every day/week.

I feel that becoming a youtube star is one of those things that seems easy (play video games and talk about it while playing) but in reality is a lot of work and takes a lot of effort to put out original content at least every couple of days. I remember seeing somewhere that for every hour you spend playing a game, it takes several more hours to write, edit, and upload. You may have to play a game for hours just to get 15 minutes of worthwhile content. Then you have to edit all that shite and make it flow.

Youtube won't pay the bills if you an average FPS player with nothing insightful or funny to say and don't know how to properly edit and produce your content.

It's not a gig where you can play video games for a couple of hours a day and sit back and count your money. The people who are making the big bucks are putting in 40 hours a week minimum (and they were doing that long before they could pay a single bill with Youtube revenue).

It will take months just to pay off the initial expense of buying all the recording equipment.

I know someone who gets at least 1mil views for most of his vids (reviews toys for kids )
he employs about 15 peeps, spends hours/days on a vid... but youd think theres only two of them running the channel

it would be a good idea if you choose the right audience and have the right content


i wouldnt do it though

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For the quality channels, its a lot more extensive than just recording some gameplay and uploading.

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Yea. If you want to actually generate enough money to live off of, well you're going to have to because you won't have any time to work an actual job if you are running a channel that is getting 6+ figure views per video.

One of my friends brothers signs autographs at conventions for this shite so I'm guessing he is pretty big with it




I just checked his youtube he has 12 million views and 76k subscribers from playing video games.