What is your standing on streaming matches on YouTube or other platforms?
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To the RGL staff, I’ve come to ask a simple question, should you guys try to test the waters and host matches live on other streaming platforms? I know it was probably already discussed before, but I wanted to know your stand on it, considering how twitch viewership is being Rocky to a steady decline at the moment.
https://twitchtracker.com/statistics
https://sullygnome.com/channels
I can also understand it can be hard to do a full transition to other platforms, but I’m saying to try as a slow transition or stream a few matches on other platforms to see where it’ll lead. Thank you for reading and have a nice day.
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Bethnicz IMO Streaming to another platform like Youtube would not be very hard. The hardest thing would be updating the stream chat embed code since it is different for every stream. But you would gain the ability for stream vods to be immediately available at full resolution as soon as the stream ended.
There are other transitional things, but imo it should not be much of an issue.
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@Mothership I do think youtube would be a good streaming service to change to if anything, because I learned (through streaming myself) I tend to get random people come into my stream a lot more than twitch does, even with little people streaming team fortress 2. Along with that people look up tf2 more on youtube than anywhere else (which you probably already know and I might sound silly for saying that)
My point is that, why not switch to YouTube for more tf2 fans to potentially find the comp scene easier and become interested in the comp scene by seeing it live rather seeing vods of it? Again the embed and other details that comes with the transition I can understand but still
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Bethnicz Traditionally, twitch is the gaming streaming platform. Youtube has traditionally had copyright issues for a very long time and is relatively new to the streaming space.
However twitch is for gamers looking to find streams of specific games, whereas Youtube has the almighty Google algorithms. I do agree, but at the end of the day it is up to the Production team to decide what is best.
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@Mothership that’s fair thanks for the input on the discussion!
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Hey it’s me again, wanting to bump this because of the whole twitch advertisement situation, hoping to get more conversations on it as well and hoping you guys might consider kick as well.
If any of the production team is seeing this please put your opinion on this, really wanna talk about this with you guys, if private my discord is available.
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Bethnicz Read through this old thread
I think the biggest benefit of YT would be better quality and performance for certain viewers. Only problem is is that preferably you want to stream to both Youtube and Twitch to make the stream more accessible which I would assume could be very intensive on the PC… but I also don’t know how to exactly restream to both YT and Twitch
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siyo That would have to be the website Restream.io which lets you stream on 2 or more platforms, but the problem with that is that it can separate the viewers and make the view count more smaller, but that is a small price to pay to have more people being accessible to competitive TF2.
The only things you’ll find on youtube when you look up competitive TF2 is not RGL or even teamfortressTV it’s KritzKast or valves competitive matchmaking system and how it sucks deviating from the comp scene more If we have Rgl stream more there and title it competitive tf2 as a tag or ____ vs ____ | Competitive tf2 we might get more traction that way even if it’s a small amount it’s still bringing something in.
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siyo said in What is your standing on streaming matches on YouTube or other platforms?:
but I also don’t know how to exactly restream to both YT and Twitch
if you need we can call and chat about it a bit and test it out to see if it runs well cause being TF2 can be intensive on your CPU but running the stream on GPU wouldn’t hurt anything.
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Bethnicz Yea shoot me a message on Steam I think you have me added. I’ll look at it too and ask my esports contacts from other games
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siyo definitely, but right now I’m gonna be working till 9pm central time so tomorrow we can definitely talk about it or tonight after work if you aren’t casting tonight