INTRO LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 TIPS What is Twitch? Your Channel Twitch Partnership OBS Setup What is Twitch Student? Modules Twitch Prime Twitch Desktop Why Twitch student Building Team Page Event Swag Pitch Decks Emoticons Branding Questing System Team Pages Dashboard Clips VODs WHAT IS TWITCH? Founded in June 2011, Twitch is the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers, video game culture, and the creative arts. Each day, close to 10 million visitors gather to watch and talk about video games with more than 2 million streamers. We invite you to join the millions of people who come to Twitch to stream, view, and interact around these shared passions together. goo.gl/WwkDCS million million million thousand minutes million WHAT IS TWITCH STUDENT? The three pillars we strive to uphold are inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. Twitch Stu- dent’s goal is to educate, empower and give students’ confidence to have their voices heard in the gaming and esports industry. We see the future leaders of our industry in the students of today as they've shown great promise in their amazing accomplishments both academically and within the gaming community. twitch.tv/team/calesports TWITCH TEAM PAGES Subscribe OFFICIAL TWITCH SWAG FOR EVENT OFFICIAL TWITCH TEAM PAGES SUPPORT FRAGMENTATION — NO CENTRAL HOME CONTINUITY — NOT ENOUGH LACK OF IDENTITY FOR A COLLEGIATE EXPERIENCE FACULTY SUPPORT "Help us, help you." "Let's Grow Together" In order for Twitch and game publishers to "Work together to effect change" By having a faculty adviser handle the support you appropriately, please keep track Twich helps provide a community page, transitions between new student leaders, of all the gamer IDs and Twitch IDs so we team pages, and a desktop app to help it creates longevity in the program. know how big your gaming community is! streamline all of the tools in one place. channel setup creating clips and collections official channel monetization FACULTY SUPPORT event swag support consistent broadcasting emoticons branding and social media team page setup YOUR CHANNEL OVERVIEW GETTING STARTED Ready to start your big adventures with the wonderful twitch.tv/nl_kripp world of streaming? Let’s take a basic look at the place where most people view your content, the channel page. TWITCH TEAM PAGES YOUR GAME, COMMUNITY, OR TEAM YOU IDENTIFY WITH WILL BE HERE YOUR CHAT WILL BE SHOWN HERE LIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER There are handy features like Nightbot which can moderate your feed and send messages at designated times. You can also assign moderators and create commands that your veiwers can use. Moderators are important to keep the chat spam-free and crowd-friendly. MODULES OVERVIEW MAKE YOUR PAGES YOUR OWN When you have finished creating the team page, take some twitch.tv/drdisrespectlive time to customize each team member’s channel with mod- ules. These modules can allow your viewers to know who TWITCH TEAM PAGES you are and the team you represent at your university. WHAT CAN YOU ADD By opening up your panels to edit, you can create your own image dividers to section off each subject that you want to address such as: —Who you are and what games you stream —Stream schedule —What are your technology specs —Your sponsors and links to campus website! Whatever it is that you would like the viewers to know, modules are an important tool to tell a little bit about yourself and all the things you’re involved in! MODULES CAN BE SEPARATORS OR LINK TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND SPONSORS TAKE SOME TIME TO GIVE A SHOUTOUT TO YOUR DONATORS OR SUBSCRIBERS TEAM PAGES OVERVIEW REPPING YOUR UNIVERSITY The first step of the Twitch Student program is to represent twitch.tv/team/calesports your university with an Team Page. TWITCH TEAM PAGES It brings a more interactive experience for others around the world to learn about your school. You can show off each of your individual members’ sick streams while having all of the information about when they play and who is there. HOW TO GET STARTED To get the ball rolling we need a few things from you and your school, so start by emailing [email protected] Then here’s a checklist of what to do! —Introduce yourself! What school you’re from and what level of involvement you have with your program. —Official University Twitch Channel —Desired Team Page Name YOUR MAIN STREAM WILL BE SHOWN HERE YOUR MEMBERS AND THOSE STREAMING WILL BE SHOWN HERE YOUR STATISTICS AS WELL YOUR GENERAL INFORMATION WILL BE LISTED HERE TEAM PAGES OVERVIEW PT 2 MAKE YOUR PAGES YOUR OWN Show off your university’s uniqueness both on the campus twitch.tv/team/tespacarleton and within your organization! Having a team page means that you are able to show everyone who is involved and any TWITCH TEAM PAGES other platforms and partners that you have. WHAT CAN YOU ADD There are plenty of things that you can add to make the team page your own, but start with: —Customize your team page to look and feel like your school! —Stream schedule —Your sponsors and links to campus website! Whatever it is that you would like the viewers to know, banners/separators are an important tool to the tell a little bit about yourself and all the things you are involved in! BANNERS CAN BE CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF YOUR ORGNIZATION AND CAN SHOW SPONSORS /AFFILIATES DASHBOARD OVERVIEW twitch.tv/vinillashake/dashboard WHATS ON IT? TWITCH TEAM PAGES This is where you can manage your stream and view informa- tion about it. This area allows you to edit your stream titles and set the catagories that you want to be featured in. It helps that you see all the people who host your channel and how your stream does over time. NAME YOUR STREAM! YOUR GENERAL STATISTICS CHOOSE YOUR COMMUNITY AND GAME CLIPS OVERVIEW GOT SOME SICK PLAYS? twitch.tv/moonmoon_ow/clips Well, everyone wants to see them! Show the highlights of your stream by using the clip feature. Your audience TWITCH TEAM PAGES can do this too! For the current viewers, they are also allowed to clip the stream in real time. The cool thing about this is that you don’t have to do all YOUR CLIP HISTORY of them if you’re busy destroying the enemy’s home base. Your clips can be shared from previous videos and shown to others just in case they missed them. goo.gl/WwkDCS CLIP EDITING PAGE VODS OVERVIEW KEEP IT ALL ARCHIVED twitch.tv/settings/channel Keeping a record of all your sick plays can be great with clips, but you can take it a step further by using VODs. TWITCH TEAM PAGES VODs (videos on demand) are a great way to have viewers look at past streams that you have done in all of it’s full glory and it’s easy to do! By going to settings > channels & videos and scrolling down, you can activate and deactivate your VODs. It’s really that easy. ARCHIVAL TIME Twitch helps keep all your videos together for a short period of time, and as you work with us we’ll make sure that your content can easily be stored on one page. goo.gl/jtdiJm WHERE YOUR VODS CAN BE ACTIVATED TWITCH PARTNERSHIP OVERVIEW MUST CLEAR ALL OF LEVEL 1 twitch.tv/itmejp PARTNERING WITH TWITCH TWITCH TEAM PAGES Once your club have successfully broadcasted 9 hours a week for a month, has will begin the process of making your club an official Twitch Partner!” What that means: -Subscription Button! -Ad Revenue! -Emoticons! -Event Swag Support Here are the steps: -Email [email protected] and CC a faculty member of your school -Email Subject: ”Official School Channel Twitch ID” - Partnership Application” goo.gl/0hg0YS THROW SOME CHEERS TO CELEBRATE THE GREAT MOMENTS DURING A STREAM EMOTICONS YOU CAN ACCESS FOLLOW OR SUBSCRIBE! THERE ARE MANY OPTIONS TO KEEP UPDATED WITH YOUR FAVORITE STREAMER. TWITCH PRIME OVERVIEW AMAZON BONUSES Got an Amazon prime account? Good news is that Twitch has twitch.amazon.com/prime benefits in conjunction with Amazon including in-game prizes for your favorite games like Hearthstone, Counterstrike: Global TWITCH TEAM PAGES Offensive, and many more! Some benefits include... —Free channel subscription every 30 days —In-Game loot like skins and boosts each month —Ad-free viewing plus (did we mention there’s a cool crown?) —Discounts on pre-order box games! And the rewards from Twitch have some sick perks with Amazon as well so visit twitchprime.com for more details. SYNC YOUR AMAZON PRIME ACCOUNT HERE AND ALSO GET A FREE TRIAL! EVENT SWAG REPPING TWITCH Twitch can help amp up your event by providing you with some awesome swag. Some items can include t-shirts, drawstring bags, pins, wristbands, and many other cool items! The important thing to remember is that you must clear the entire level one before you can request things from Twitch. STUDENT DIVERSITY INCLUSIVITY COLLABORATION Things to remember: —You must give one month’s notice prior to your event —You must record the Twitch IDs of those who attend the event on a google doc to send to Twitch Student EVENT RECAP Remember to take lots of photos! Take them before, after and during your event so that people who are thinking of going can see how amazing your event is! This also allows others to easily share and see what your school is up to, and also helps aid in your presentation decks for future reference. EMOTICONS OVERVIEW WHAT IS IT? Subscriptions provide many fun bonuses and one of them happens to be emoticons.