>>83998501Prepare for mucho texto
This is something I have insight on, so I'll try to break down some basics as best as I can
The short answer is you need to be at least twitch partner, realistically. There are some exceptions but this should set your expectations to this.
That being said, CCV is not an indicator of income, donos vary WILDLY between people of similar CCV. I know people with 50CCV that are netting 3k+ a month from donos and people with 500CCV that are barely getting $1k a month from donos. It's going to depend a lot on your personality, your stream times, how many whales you manage to pick up, and how shameless you are in leading on your viewers/baiting donations.
The more reliable source of income from streaming alone is sponsors. Once you're hitting 100-200 viewers consistently you'll start getting interest from sponsors, and you will be expected to negotiate the rates. A general rule of thumb is asking $1-2/hr/ACCV (e.g, a 2 hours stream at 300 avg viewers would fetch $600-$1200), picking closer to $1 if you're lower viewer and stagnating and closer to $2 if you're rapidly growing (they'll be more likely to see it as an investment in your 'brand'). Really though, you can pick your rate based on how much you want/need the sponsor. Don't take the Streamelements sponsorships, they're all ass on rates and ask too much of you for the money given. NEVER take a sponsor that only offers you income on viewers using codes or whatever, only if they offer a base rate. SE sponsors won't do this until you're at +300CCV at minimum and at that point you can just hit up brands and get way better rates, they're always a good backup if you're living off streaming and need to pay rent though.
If you're looking for a reliable $500 a month, I'd say 300CCV is pretty much guaranteeing you that much no matter what, if you're wanting a hard number.
>>83998294If you're getting 20k-30k views on YOUTUBE uploads of VODs, you're going to be making more than most bigger indies. A VOD is hours long and you'll hit monetization on youtube fast, if you're getting even just *some* retention on a 4 hour VOD uploaded multiple days a week you'll be making bank. I think you're underestimating how hard it would be to actually pull this off, most massive streamers aren't getting that many views on their raw VODs, just edited content. Even getting that many views on one 20-30 minute edited video a week would be a really nice paycheck, if you can pull it off.
>>83998501one final thing I'll say to this anon is that if you are not currently streaming, and you're wanting to start streaming to make easy money, this ain't it brother. this is not a path to easy cash, you are not going to just "press start stream and play video games" and get the viewership necessary to get what you want. You're going to have to put in a lot of work advertising yourself, editing clips, keeping multiple social accounts up to date, planning events, trying new stuff etc. If you enjoy it, this comes easy, but if you're only in this for the money, it's going to be a real slog. Even if you manage to make it out of the 2view territory with financial incentive, it's going to hurt you long term trying to grow beyond it. Bigger streamers are progressively better and better and telling when you're trying to use them for clout/income, and they aren't going to want to associate with that. This is an incredibly social hobby/industry, you are not going to one-man solo a climb up the ranks, you need to make friends and get to know other people if you wanna do anything.
I do really encourage you to try out streaming because it's a lot of fun! but you really need to be sure you enjoy this a lot before deciding if you want to make a run at making it a career. good luck out there man!
