Written by We Play Gaming #9 – Excuse Me, Which One of You is Ryan?
On this switched up We Play Gaming Podcast, the hosts Ryan and Ryan discuss Papa Johns, video games, and what it’s like to be named Ryan. Ryan says some hilarious stuff, while Ryan listens and contemplates the intricacies of life. Through rigorous questioning, Ryan finally divulges the secret we’ve all wanted to hear, and you’ll never guess how Ryan reacts.
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Wow, I got drunk tonight and happened to stumble upon this podcast! To answer your question. Advantages to Twitch are the already established streaming community, they don’t have as many restrictions with regards to copyrighted content and streaming seems more stable. The disadvantages are that they don’t store your recordings, you can’t scroll through the current recording to find the earlier parts of the recording and they are a much smaller community then Youtube and it is much harder to get noticed. Youtube does store your recordings and allows people who didn’t join at the start of your stream, to watch through and skip over any dead air. (Parts where nothing happens.) Youtube, however, is very copyright sensitive so you have to be careful what you record. The biggest issue with the two right now is their rivalry, people who watch your Youtube stuff are unwilling to go to Twitch to watch streams and people from Twitch, as you’ve said, scoff at the idea of going to Youtube to watch stuff.
There is however a solution, someone mentioned to me a while back that there’s a site you can use to stream to that will then stream to both your Youtube and Twitch channels. The only real downside is you have two chats to watch and if you put them in your stream video, they could take up a rather large space. I don’t remember what the site was called as I don’t use it, but, I’ll be sure to ask my stream followers next time I’m streaming if they’re on at that time.
That’s super interesting, I’ll have to try and find that site if you can’t get a hold of it. Something like that might be ideal for small time folks like myself who want to reach both, really discrete audiences. Plus, as you said, Youtube’s ability to store and save all that video footage is just tremendous. Twitch seems to be getting there though, there’s a lot more options now for storing video including exporting straight to an mp4 on your hard drive. What a world.