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Ready to take your live streams to the next level? Whether you’re just starting out or looking to polish your setup, I’ve got some fantastic gameplay streaming tips that will help you shine! Streaming is all about connecting with your audience, showing off your skills, and having a blast while doing it. So, let’s dive right in and make your broadcasts unforgettable! Game Streaming Success Guide by NotebookLM Setting Up Your Stream Like a Pro: Gameplay Streaming Tips You Can’t

Welcome back to our series about getting back into streaming. In the last post I discussed how I fell out of love with streaming and how I intended to get back into it but focus on having fun. It's worth a read if you haven't already as we discuss burnout and how it's okay to take breaks. This time, we're going to take a look at how a month of streaming went and what I've learned on this journey! THE JOURNEY SO FAR Barring a few weeks off because I had to have a tooth pulled

Hello there! It's been a while since I have written any blog posts here on the XSplit website, so what brings me back? Well, it's a whole theme of coming back for myself and the company as a whole. I suppose coming back is the wrong term, more of a refocus. I'm getting back into streaming, and XSplit are putting more focus on gamers and content creators. Seems like a great match! It's something I've been thinking about for some time now. I used to stream pretty often, in fact

You may have noticed in pretty much every article I’ve written about streaming, that at some point I mention NVENC or tell you to buy an NVIDIA GPU. There’s a very good reason for that, NVENC is amazing for live streaming! Now that the GPU market is starting to heal, I thought it would be good to talk about what NVENC is and why I think it’s so important for live streaming! What is NVENC? NVENC stands for NVIDIA Encoder, which is a part of the GPUs, your graphics card, dedica

We’ve been working in the streaming industry for over ten years now here at XSplit. Consequently, we’ve seen and helped solve a lot of problems over the years. Here, we run down common issues streamers run into and the solutions for them to help you fix your gaming stream! How to fix your gaming stream with laggy video If you or your viewers are seeing a choppy or laggy stream, check your encoding stats. If you see dropped frames, it means you may have set your bitrate too hi

The term “VTuber” or “Virtual YouTuber” was originally created in reference to the virtual online personality Kizuna AI in 2016. Until a couple of years ago, VTubers were limited to just a handful of accounts. Due to the complications involved in rendering and animating the character model in real-time. However, recent advances in cheap and well-designed motion capture software have made creating and using a virtual avatar while streaming accessible to almost anyone. Want to

Every streamer on Twitch is out there shooting to get their channel to the level where they snag a Twitch Partnership invitation. That purple checkmark is a badge of honor for the content creators who work on the platform. But the first step to your streaming success is probably the Twitch Affiliate program. Today we’re going to help you understand a little bit about what the Twitch Affiliate contract looks like and what you can and can’t do with the program. How is an Affili

When you think of streaming games, your mind turns immediately to video games, but streaming services like Twitch have a healthy Tabletop RPG community that will let you stream Dungeons & Dragons as well as other classic tabletop titles. This quick guide covers how you can organize a tabletop stream, which software you might want to use, and some great examples from the genre for you to watch on Twitch. Organizing a tabletop stream Unlike traditional game streaming where you’

Out of all the streamers in the world, not very many are doing it full time. Not everyone can stream their content for 16 hours a day because of just life generally getting in the way – whether it’s a full-time job or just other hobbies. There are non-full time streamers who still want to take their content to the next level, and they’re the same people who might want to optimize what little time they have to stream. We took the liberty of taking a look at the data to try and