check check i'm done waiting i've been waiting for this space for so long and it's looking so good but it's so echoey so i got this does this sound better than this better worse i won't know until we get into editing i'm pretty sure this is gonna sound better this week was a big week of updates from both twitch and youtube so i thought i'd real quick make a video for you share what was announced what changes how does that impact you as a streamer and then kind of share my thoughts about it but i don't want this to be a video where i'm just like shouting my thoughts at your face so i'd love to hear your opinions too share them with me hey future hair is here forgot to mention something i'm actually watching the edit of the video you're watching right now and realized i forgot to mention that we just released the newest christmas stream beats album it's available today on spotify album music anywhere you listen to music you can watch it uh listen to it in your live streams you can use it in your youtube videos it's called evergreen it's christmas lo-fi link in the description down below back to the video all right update video these videos these are these are fun i feel like these announcements were the perfect metaphor for how both twitch and youtube has been going for the past two years both of them shared what the next steps of the platform look like and it looks like they're both going down very different paths but let's start with the youtube one because the twitch one is more interesting so if i put it later in the video i get a longer watch time transparency youtube announced some things that streamers have been waiting for for a very long time namely gifted subs and a couple other things which we'll get into but mostly gifted subs sorry gifted members i've been streaming on youtube for like six to eight months now and i still sometimes call them subs it's the same thing but like the gifted members are like the big thing of this announcement because the hardest thing that youtube is going to be able to do is going to be to bring the big streamers from twitch over to youtube they're not going to move over unless they get paid for it because when you move platforms you heavily lose viewership it's just the way it is however those viewers that move over with you are the core audience and generally the ones who support you the most so if you give those people the tools to support you even more like the ability to gift memberships it means that those big streamers can finally mitigate some of those lost funds and and maybe not lose as many when they move over they say it's happening in NUMBER_TOKEN they didn't give a quarter or a month or anything should have happened in NUMBER_TOKEN but uh i'm just glad it's finally happening i'll tell you what if you hit the like button on this video as soon as gifted memberships release i will take inventory on how much i make from regular subs before gifted subs and how much i make after so we can see how much of a difference it actually makes in stream or revenue i will share it with you let's move on you like how i'm bribing you to hit the like button right now i'll
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN me hey future hair is here forgot to mention something i'm actually watching the edit of the video you're watching right now and realized i forgot to mention that we just released the newest christmas stream beats album it's available today on spotify album music anywhere you listen to music you can watch it uh listen to it in your live streams you can use it in your youtube videos it's called evergreen it's christmas lo-fi link in the description down below back to the video all END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN