business plan / twitch / youtube
-Ninja reportedly got paid between $20 million and $30 million by Microsoft to leave Amazon's Twitch streaming service.


Step 1: go to a Twitch stats website(e.g. sullygnome) and set filter to 30 days
Step 2: look at "Most watched/trending/streamed" games
Step 3: choose at least two video games from the top list that you are willing to sink hundreds of hours into
Step 4: decide who you want people see you as (e.g. competitive, memelord, educational, etc)
Step 5: Download and install a free video editing software(e.g. Davinci Resolve) and a free recording software (e.g. OBS Studio)
Step 6: proceed to play said games every waking moment you get and record yourself with emphasis on doing things that align with your choice(s) from Step 4
Step 7: choose a day where you will spend watching your latest VODs, noting down in a notepad the times when something happens to you(or you do something) in the game that meets your choice(s) from Step 4
Step 8: proceed to video edit the shit out of those VODs with your notes in hand until you think you have content that people would like to see(at first time you will be hard on yourself and think that nobody will want to watch your shitty content - just ignore that feeling and keep going; don't delete the finished videos!)
Step 9: rinse and repeat steps 6 to 8 until you think you have enough content to post once per week (at the minimum) for a month straight (so 4 videos/month as a baseline)

Step 10: create a YouTube channel as a brand/business type, not the personal one
Step 11: begin posting your educational/funny/quickscope/whatever videos as discussed in step 9 (feel free to increase how often you'll upload videos but be careful as too much work can overwhelm you at first and cause you to give up entirely)
Step 12: create a Twitter account and start following people that play the same games (from Step 3) as you and meet the following criteria:
-they have a Twitch with low viewership numbers (think anywhere between 2-20 on avg)
-they have a YT account with below 50K subs, and on average less than 5K views per video
(Optional) to make it seem more organic you might want to also start lowkey tweeting interesting clips from your VODs that are maximum 15-20 seconds long to create initial footprint on the social platform
Step 13: start lurking their Twitter accounts, and then (once you feel comfortable or the moment is right) start participating in the existing threads/convos
Step 14: once you get a hang of conversing with others on Twitter, begin tweeting your YT videos
Step 15: watch as your YT numbers grow and keep repeating steps 9 and 11, 13, 14 as you see fit at this point
Step 16: keep grinding until you reach anywhere between 50-100 subs and around 200-300 views per vid on average on YT
Step 17: create your Twitch account, add it to Twitter under "website" field, plug it into every single one of your videos (old and new) in the description area, start dropping your Twitch URL in your tweets along with your videos that you will keep churning out
Step 18: begin streaming and tweet when you're about to go live on Twitch every time
Step 19: at this point just keep streaming your chosen games from Step 3, making and uploading more videos, being active on Twitter and watch as your YT and TV numbers will start to grow as time passes and you keep putting in the work