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RedAtMath

Youtube Gaming: What's it done for you?

I'm just curious what, if anything, the new Youtube Gaming platform has been doing for you all? I've only ever seen it mentioned on this sub in regards to Streaming, but that existed before YG went live. I only recently noticed that you can see if people are viewing your videos on youtube.com or gaming.youtube.com under Analytics > Views > More > Youtube Product. My thoughts are...underwhelming to say the least, with it being 0.2% of my traffic.

So I'd like to here from the community here; what do your sources look like? Is it helping smaller Let's Players stand it? Is it reinforcing the status quo? Is it what you thought it would be?

Posted Oct 20, 2015, 5:33 AM UTC

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YoungBonesGaminghttps://www.youtube.com/c/YoungBonesGaming•

Well in total we've had about 6,000 views in the last 28 days. 7 came from YTG.

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Raxbyhttp://youtube.com/Raxby•

Well, I've had more views from Youtube Kids (2) than from Youtube Gaming (1) in the last 90 days. Just regular Youtube has 2000+ views in that range. So it's done essentially nothing for me.

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achmethagaming.youtube.com/c/achmetha•

YtG has only 2% of views for me. the thing is, my audience retention on YtG is +28mins, whereas good ole normal youtube is ~3-4mins.

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RedAtMathOPhttps://www.youtube.com/RedAtMath•

Interesting. Are you live streaming? What's your normal stream length? What percentage of the total length of the video is 28 or 3-4 minutes?

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achmethagaming.youtube.com/c/achmetha•

I've done a few streams, but they are pretty random. Interestingly enough, the livestreaming data says 0% retention lmao. I'll link some screenshots.
By Product: http://i.imgur.com/rKr454B.png
YouTube Retention: http://i.imgur.com/78xnq9A.png
YtG Retention: http://i.imgur.com/TOXwNs8.png

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RedAtMathOPhttps://www.youtube.com/RedAtMath•

Awesome, thanks for sharing. I have to think some of that is just....broken, as it doesn't make sense otherwise.

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I thought there would be a lot more competition/others' streaming. But glad there isn't. But unless it picks up, I'm curious what will become of it. It's really just in its infancy though. I hate that I get hit with a copyright for a 30 second audio clip from a 2.5 hour stream, and it won't let me remove it so I can't monetize it. It really sucks. BUT, I have tripled the number of subs I had with a single timely stream of NBA2K16 at launch.

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mrblackplayshttps://www.youtube.com/user/mrblackplayz•

Odd to navigate doesn't seem like a streaming first thing

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niflickhttps://www.youtube.com/c/niflick•

I've always wanted to try streaming, I never tried Twitch because I felt like the competition was way too high. I heard a lot of people gaining 10-30 subs per stream compared to months of no subs. My only problem is that I upload videos at 1080p/60fps but my connection limits me to 720p/60fps while streaming and I hate upload non-edited footage. The only way I can actually stream is if I have a backlog of videos.

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IcelandicBankshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOTtEPbbN1sTqmczPb9mBwQ•

I've been streaming exclusively to YTG for around a month or so. Pretty much all subs and growth I attribute to that. I didn't want to jump into Twitch since it's SO saturated, and you can't stream at higher bitrates unless you're partnered. I figured starting to stream with the launch of YTG would be good, and so far it has been!

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TheKruseMissilehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2go70QLfwGq-hW4nvUqmog•

Pretty much nothing, but I'm not a streamer.

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morjaxhttp://youtube.com/mookiemorjax•

This has probably been hashed and rehashed elsewhere and is unabashed thread highjacking, but does anyone have info on when we might expect the "stream form android" option to become generally available? I'd like to try it on top of my regularly scheduled content.

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