PAIVATAR LIVE Streams

Many years ago, All Fiber Arts used to have a weekly Chat session, that was hosted on Delphi. After a few years, Delphi stopped providing this service.

Turn the Camera On

I have often been asked if I could do teaching via Zoom. I haven’t wanted to, because it involves a lot or organizing and prep work to set up the classes. So I thought that I would use the ‘Turn the Camera On’ approach instead. I am working in my studio most days, doing different projects. So I thought that Live streaming through a platform such as Twitch might work.

Sometimes I do a lot of talking and give explanations of what I am doing or working on. Sometimes I just work away at my task. Please feel free to ask questions if you wish to know more. I am not always looking up at the monitors but I try to check them every few minutes. I like to have some background music as I work.

I have recently been experimenting with some of the Live platforms that are available. Each platform has a different audience so I thought that I would give them a try.

TWITCH – PaivatarMama

Twitch is owned by Amazon. Streamers are paid by the viewers who can Subscribe to the Channel. The Subscriber fee is paid to Amazon. Amazon then shares a percentage of the fee with the streamer. In order to achieve ‘Subscriber’ status there are a number of requirements that the streamer has to achieve, such as a number of followers (50), a number of chatters at the same time in the stream (5), a number of hours streamed (250) and there are several more tiers for progression up to big streamer status.

I save copies of all of the stream videos. Depending on what I am doing, I sometimes edit the videos and cut/paste into a shorter video and post these on my YouTube channel. I find that the attention span of many YouTubers is very short – they often do not watch more than a few minutes of any content. I think with the introduction of YouTube ‘SHORTS’ the attention span has decreased even further. SHORTS seem to be a form of hypnosis.

KICK.COM- paivatarmomma

Sometimes I also stream on KICK. Kick is another platform with a slightly different revenue sharing model than Twitch. To achieve ‘Subscription’ status the streamer has to gain 75 followers and stream for 5 hours. And an average of 75 viewers in 30 days, 30 hours of stream time in a month, 300 chatters in 30 days.

YouTube – @Paivatar

YouTube has a different revenue sharing model before you can start to earn pennies. 500 Subscribers, 3000 watch hours in the last 365 days. In order for YouTube to rank your channel and promote it in its latest algorithm, YouTube now looks at the Number of Likes that the post receives. More Likes = higher rank in the Suggested videos to Watch. These requirements seem to change constantly.

Why Do I Stream?

Well, with all these different rules why do I bother? I don’t expect I will ever achieve any of them so I don’t stress myself out about it. I just use the platforms in order to post the videos, which I think will be useful to someone, sharing knowledge of my crafts that I have gathered over the years.