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Kick Streaming — Should You Switch?
Kick Streaming — Should You Switch?
Kick offers a 95/5 sub split, but a platform is more than its revenue share. Here is an honest look at when switching makes sense.
Jun 14, 2026 · 1 min readRead
10 Ways to Get More Clips
10 Ways to Get More Clips
Clips are free marketing made by your community. Here are ten practical ways to get more of them — and turn them into growth.
Jun 14, 2026 · 1 min readRead
15 Years of SteelSeries
SteelSeries is celebrating 15 years in the industry. To celebrate they are running a giveaway and we thought this would be a great opportunity to go over what they can offer you...
Jun 29, 2016 · 2 min readRead
Giveaways - The Gift That Keeps on Giving
If you were to browse the top broadcasters of a hyped game the day of its release, you are guaranteed to find [Unsupported shortcode: Giveaways] in almost every other title. For...
May 16, 2016 · 5 min readRead
Creating a Steam Group for Your Channel
One of the best ways to let viewers know you are going live is with a Steam group. If you're a Twitch streamer, a small popup appears to all your followers when you go live. But...
Apr 4, 2016 · 2 min readRead
How to Make GIFs of Your Stream
Last week we wrote an overview on a tool called Oddshot that allows viewers to capture awesome moments from Twitch and Hitbox streams. Oddshot clips are easy to share, making it...
Mar 14, 2016 · 1 min readRead
Capture Stream Highlights with Oddshot
Did you just witness a hilarious moment in someone's stream and want to easily capture it and share it with your friends? Oddshot is a browser plugin that lets you do just that....
Mar 7, 2016 · 2 min readRead
YouTube Gaming vs Twitch: There's more to it than you think
Long read. Get comfy. [Inline image: youtubetwitch - http://streamersquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/youtubetwitch-300x154.jpg] So YouTube Gaming launched today as of this...
Sep 4, 2015 · 6 min readRead
Why are Regulars More Important than Views/Followers?
If you ever happen to be in any kind of Twitch forum or comment section, they always have one thing in common: there are always new streamers asking the same question. How do I...
Aug 11, 2015 · 7 min readRead
Offline Streaming - What it is and why it's important
Growing is a difficult task in streaming, no matter how hard you try. There's a lot of things that you can do while streaming but there are also a few things that should be a st...
Jun 8, 2015 · 6 min readRead
Recommended WordPress Plugins for Streamers
As a WordPress developer I'm constantly amazed and impressed by not only WordPress itself, but by the amount of plugins. As of this writing, there are over 37,000 and growing li...
May 18, 2015 · 3 min readRead
No Website? You're Losing Your Potential Branding
Heya folks! So my background in a nutshell: I owned a web hosting and development company from 1999-2014, which I sold to a bigger company. Trying to be competitive with juggern...
May 11, 2015 · 3 min readRead