I'm going to be very careful about how I word this post, because I see a lot of complaining in social media subreddits, and I want to do my best to not be that guy.
At the start of this year, I started streaming with the goal to be a full time creator by next January. It's been a crazy ride so far, and I've learned so much, but the thing I still can't quite crack is twitch.
In January, I was averaging about 8-10 viewers, I started posting on instagram, tiktok, and youtube. All in all, I have around 40,000 followers total (instagram, tiktok, youtube), do about 5 million views per month, and my average twitch viewers is now like 6. I mean, that is an astronomically low conversion rate. I've tried posting on my story when I'm live, I've tried doing events, I've tried to make myself "the twitch streamer" instead of "content creator" and I even created a discord server because I thought having my community in one place would make it easier for them to see when I'm live.
I have concluded a couple of things so far, 1. My streams are just boring. I'm not being entertaining enough, funny enough, or some aspect of my stream is making people not stay. However, I've never reached over 20 max viewers, so maybe it's a discoverability problem. If that's the case, I'm at a complete loss. How do I increase that conversion rate from other platforms? Maybe my videos are too niche, and that audience just doesn't watch streams. I don't know, I'm just looking for a strategy that might help out.