>>47367078Discoverability is way better on Twitch than Youtube, but the achilles heel to that are the ads. There's 30 seconds of baked in ads at the start of your stream, and 30 seconds of baked in ads periodically throughout your stream that you do not control nor do you get any money from them. They just happen. Twitch are actively spending money to circumvent your adblocks. That's why no adblocks actually work on the platform.
Twitch though is much more lax when it comes to (some) rules. Mainly copyright, if you play copyrighted music all that happens is they mute that segment of your stream. On Youtube they'll just take down the video or take down your channel because its easier. Even if you were to own the license to the music it wouldn't make a difference on YT, they'll still take it down. I forget which vtuber made their own single and it was claimed by the algorithm.
Speaking of, the algorithm is constantly changing with what it demonetizes people for. Some have actually gotten demonetized just for saying 9/11; others for showing pictures of the twin towers; and we all know the new guidelines that say you cant swear for the first 10 minutes of stream.
Twitch doesn't have an algorithm that runs their website, its just a bunch of code monkeys that sit there and jerk off to Amouranth streams all day. These same code monkeys actually used to help people and work with them on ideas for streams, but they discontinued that pretty quick.
Of course it's hard to watch Amouranth when the vod system is so shit. What's that, you want to see the moment she took off the towel? well she's only been live for 3 hours now, just turn on the vod from the beginning and skip ahead until you find it. Highlights? You mean clips? What's a timestamp? look, its been going for 3 hours, you have to refresh the stream until she finally goes off the air to catch up if you're watching the vod. And of course watch it all within 30 days because after that it's gone for good.
With Youtube you can create highlights and timestamp them in the comments, you can segment your video into parts, Twitch I think just now is getting into highlights, but no timestamps and of course no comments.
One thing I will give Youtube is they have a great archive system. Many of the big Twitch streamers use it for their past streams. The only real downside is again the algorithm which can change on a whim and yes can strike any of your past vods at any time and just outright remove them.
When it comes to interaction though, i would say Twitch is way better. Each streamer gets their own emotes, some of them can even be just for following them, there's also BTTV and FFZ for even more emotes, and they can be used in every channel. There's also the bits system where you pay Twitch to pay the streamer in artificial currency which grants even more fucking emotes to use plus tiered badges for those extra special paypigs.
Thankfully though, you don't have to use bits, you can just donate to them regularly through streamelements or whatever and Twitch doesn't take a cut unlike Youtube with superchats. Both also have the gifted subs thing which is another way and that's fine, only real difference is again the badges next to someone's name for those extra special paypigs.
Quite possibly the biggest difference though in supporting a streamer is Twitch Prime which is really convenient imo. If you have Amazon Prime you can hook it up to Twitch and you get a free subscription to whomever each month. Doesn't renew automatically so if you change your mind and want to switch to someone else you can. Plus there's free games from Amazon which are usually pretty trash, though I did get Blasphemous once. You can also switch it to other accounts so if you don't like having a vtuber read the name "fagballs" you can switch it to your other account "ballsfag" once your sub runs out.
To my knowledge Youtube doesn't have something like this. Giving you a free membership to spend each month though if you sub to Youtube Red or TV or whatever its called would be an interesting strategy on their part though.
In the end, neither are great. You just have to pick the lesser of two evils. Twitch can be great for discoverability and Youtube can be great for archiving. Twitch can be great for karaoke streams and Youtube can be great for quality which I don't think I covered, with Twitch you don't get quality options automatically, that comes with being a partner. Your viewers will have the choice of 1080p or nothing on Twitch until you become Partner.
>yeah but I got them once and I'm not a partnerif you aren't partner, quality options are just given out by roulette so consider yourself lucky. With Youtube you can pick whatever, obviously, up to 4k which Twitch does not support and your video will be compressed for their convenience no matter what, even if you're running on 4k equipment.
To conclude: do whatever, just don't stream on both. That's gonna skew your audience.
