Month: August 2019

Be an XSplit Affiliate and Start Making Money

We’re always working on ways to make using XSplit both beneficial and enjoyable to our users whether through new features and improvements based on your suggestions, further refining our support systems, or even holding occasional promos and giving out free Premium license keys to people wanting to try out our products. Today, it’s about giving you an easy way to make money with your content.

We are excited to introduce the XSplit Affiliate Program!

  • Get 10% incentive for every referral sale made through your referral link.
  • Easily track your referral juice in one glance, from your very own dashboard.
  • Cash in your referral juice anytime you wish.
  • Take advantage of exclusive seasonal discount promotions for your followers.

The opportunity to make referral sales were previously only available to Elites but we wanted to open this up to as many people as possible. With the XSplit Affiliate program, you don’t need a big following at all. All you need to do is sign up, login with your social accounts, and you’re good to go!

Inside the program, you can find your personal affiliate link that you can promote on your channels. You earn 10% of the amount for every sale made using your link. Tracking stats in real-time can also be easily done through a dashboard where you can find metrics such as clicks, commissions, and revenue over a specified period of time.

Join the program today at xspl.it/affiliate and start making money!

XSplit workshop with BrenPro x Playpark

Not very often would we write something local on the blog on the latest activities and community events within the Philippines, this one is an exception. XSplit has recently partnered with eSports team, BrenPro, and Next Talents PH; and local video game publisher – Playpark Philippines for their stream needs.

With eSports and video game tournaments proliferating in the local scene, we cannot deny the expansion of streaming not just abroad but also in the local market. The Philippines having over 108 million people and having named one of the top internet users worldwide staying online for more or less 10 hours a day is no bother. With 72 million who use social media – Filipinos are indeed a formidable opponent in making their online presence known. With the recent boom of mobile gaming and Facebook game streaming in the country – broadcasting softwares have become a need for seasoned and budding content creators. Facebook is the top platform of content sharing and communication to most Filipinos, it has also created a new avenue for gamers and other content creators to share the latest games that are trending in the country today.

Last July 20, the XSplit media team arranged a workshop for these talented local talents and shared their knowledge in setting up and optimizing their stream for better content. Offcasts and Digital Anomaly was there to clarify and answer more of the technical streaming questions.

XSplit continuously supports live streamers and content creators from here in the Philippines and abroad, no discrimination here! Be part of our growing community, follow our social accounts and the official Discord server to join the conversation. If you want to invite us for a workshop or event talk, don’t hesitate to let us know.

Here’s a glimpse of the workshop on the Xsplit Monthly Episode 2 at 0:52.

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Live Streaming Platform Right for your Needs

If you have decided to live stream, you want to choose a live streaming platform that will give you the best exposure. Some streaming platforms are focused on a particular niche such as gaming, and it can be hard to gain an audience on such a site if you’re planning to do archery tutorials. In this article, we’ll take a look at a few different use cases for live streaming and recommend the best live streaming service.

Business Presentations

If you’re looking to do business presentations and your co-workers are spread around the world, then you’ll need to use a platform that can restrict access to the live stream. A YouTube Live Stream would be the best solution for this, as it offers a variety of controls for privacy.

You will need to use the classic YouTube studio and create a new live stream event. When you are setting up your live stream event, make your event private in the drop-down menu. Click on the share button and invite the people you wish to view your live stream presentation via email.

If your company uses Google to manage email accounts, YouTube live streaming has an additional feature to share the live streaming with everyone in your organization. This is useful for company-wide presentations with a lot of employees.

YouTube streaming

A Facebook live stream is another option if your company has a page. If you gain admin rights to a company page you can broadcast directly to that page using your own Facebook account. However you will not be able to restrict this page to only employees, so this is not recommended for internal presentations.

Vlogging

If you’re looking to connect with your fans or build a community, using a live video streaming site is one of the best ways to interact. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have live streaming built into their mobile apps and websites, so you can start a stream anywhere you have an internet connection.

If you’re looking to monetize your vlogs, then Twitch and YouTube offer a variety of tools. One of the largest communities on Twitch is the just chatting section, which is meant for personal vlogs. Twitch live streams offer a variety of ways to monetize your content via the affiliates program. Once you’ve reached a certain level of viewership, you can become an affiliate which lets you receive paid subscriptions for your channel. These subscriptions can unlock badges and chat emoticons for your subscribers. The only problem with Twitch is that it’s discovery tools make it difficult for new broadcasters on the platform and you will have to rely on other social media to grow your audience.

A YouTube live stream is my recommendation for live vlogs. YouTube offers all the same monetization options as Twitch, but joining their partner program has a bit more strict requirements. YouTube has the added benefit of discoverability as long as you do proper SEO on your live stream titles and thumbnails. If you plan on doing VOD content in addition to your YouTube live stream, you’ll create a great funnel to amass subscribers to turn into followers on your other social media accounts.

Gaming

The undisputed king of gaming live streams is Twitch. Twitch’s browse features are entirely designed around finding streams of the games you are interested in watching. If you are able to join Twitch’s partner program you gain access to a variety of monetization tools from bits, subscriptions, subscriber-only streams and sponsorship opportunities via bounty boards. Twitch partners are also regularly promoted on the home page, which opens up more opportunities to expand your audience. Twitch partners also gain access to stream transcoding, so that viewers with poor internet connections can still watch your broadcast.

Twitch subscriptions

Competition is fierce on Twitch and some games, like Fortnite, have such an abundance of streamers that it can be hard to grow or even get viewers. Mixer is a great alternative for people who are just starting with live streaming. Mixer offers all the same features as Twitch, in addition to adding interactive elements with the spark system and using FTL broadcasting to allow mixer live streams to have little to no latency for the viewer.

YouTube and Facebook are also great sites for gaming live streams, with Facebook launching their new FB.GG portal and offering monetization options for gaming creators.

Commerce

A growing trend in live streaming is creating personal home shopping networks. You can amplify the sales of your goods by live-streaming the products being used. A good rule of thumb is to broadcast to the site where your social media following is strongest. If you are just starting out, Facebook and Instagram are the best platforms for live broadcasts. These sites will allow you to highlight your products in posts along with giving you boosting tools to promote your products to targeted audiences. You can also use direct messaging tools on these platforms to complete sales. You can also incorporate a chatbot or moderators to send viewers links to purchase the items you are showing.

Music or Live Performances

For music performances, you will need to be careful which platform you select if you will be performing copyrighted works. Sites like Twitch and YouTube will mute or restrict copyrighted material.

Streaming live performance

If you will be performing original material, then you can use any site, but it is recommended to use the site where you have the highest concentration of followers, such as Facebook or Twitter. One thing to note is that because many free platforms limit the bitrate for audio, you viewers may not receive the highest quality sound for your performance.

Educational

The best platform for educational content, like teaching guitar or vocal coaching, depends on if this will be paid or free lessons. If you will be doing free lessons, then using your social platform of choice works best. If you intend to charge for your classes, you will need a method of restricting access to your live broadcast. The best platform for this is YouTube live streaming, as it allows you to create private broadcasts where you can invite specific people.

Podcasts

If you have decided to take your podcasts online, YouTube is the best platform to show your live stream. YouTube will allow you to schedule your podcast so your viewers will know when to tune in and allows you privacy options if you wish for podcasts to be exclusive content for something like Patreon subscribers. You can also use YouTube to archive your podcasts or host highlights like the H3H3 podcast.

streaming podcasts

A good alternative is Twitch, which has a section dedicated to talk shows and podcasts. If you will be hosting a podcast with remote guests, Skype has some useful tools to improve the production of the show, which you can find out more about in this video.

How to broadcast to these platforms?

Broadcasting to these platforms is easy with XSplit Broadcaster! We’ve built custom plugins for all the popular streaming platforms. All you need to do is login to your account and our setup wizard will provide the best settings for your live stream! Focus on the content, not the setup.

We have an in-depth tutorial guide on our YouTube channel that can help you get started.