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Monday, January 13, 2020

Twitch Plans for 2020~!

Okay, here's the blog I was supposed to write up last week with my plans for Twitch stuff! We're actually nearing the end of the list of games I said I would stream on Twitch and that's actually HELLA exciting, at least for me. That means I'll have plenty of time just to sit back and play some games that I actually WANT to play. I suspect I'll also be devoting some time to games I'd love to finish, some of which I started literally years ago.

For the MAIN plans though, the idea is that I grab the platinum in SuperChargers as quick as possible (I'm only missing one trophy so that won't be a problem). I expect to probably stream a couple more days' worth of Battleborn though, especially if I can get someone to join me! There's still so many videos I want to get filmed before the servers go down early next year... After I grab the platinum the last planned let's play I'll be running through on Twitch is going to be Iconoclasts, and then after that I'll grab the remaining trophies in Skylanders: Imaginators, which will help me grab every trophy in the whole series. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to bite that $100+ bullet and grab the final adventure pack or not though... I'm honestly not looking forward to that portion of the deal though hahaha.

There are a few more games listed on my list as games to play in multiplayer, and I plan to devote at least a few Saturdays to streaming those games with friends. I know my channel actually says I stream on Saturdays sometimes, but I honestly feel like I didn't stream a single Saturday all of last year, sorry! I also will hopefully be finishing off the Galactic Conquests in the '06 version of Star Wars Battlefront II with CrazyBacon. Grim wants me to play through Days Gone so I'm thinking I'll start that a lil' bit closer to Halloween, especially since I don't have anything left to do in ILLBLEED.


I'm actually more excited than anything else to just sit back and enjoy some games, no schedules, just having fun and sharing the experiences with some friends and fellow gamers, so I hope you guys and gals all enjoy!  

Friday, January 3, 2020

I'm a YouTube partner again!

Well, I'm not with a network this time around, but I'm back up to partner status. Basically, that just means that I can apply monetization to my videos. Unfortunately, you apply monetization separately to each and every video, and I have an ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS amount of uploaded videos, so I knew that wasn't going to work in my favor. To that end, I came up with a new lil' system!

I ended up talking it over with a few people (including my two Patreon helpers, so thanks y'all!) and I think the best course of action for me right now is to apply monetization to the videos of mine that have a bunch of views. Since I was already on the topic of 1000, I thought 1000 views was a good metric to start with. I've actually already applied monetization to the 200 or so of my videos with 1k+ views, but I tried to do it in a way to not annoy the audience!

One big change they've made is that now you can't choose where to run ads on videos that are 10 minutes or less (they have to be at least 10 minutes and 1 second long to be able to choose where ads end up). YouTube's built-in algorithm appears to choose where to place ads on any and all videos that are <10 min long. I thought originally it was just auto-applying the "Before video" ads to each of the videos, but that's not the case, sometimes it puts the ad at the end or sometimes in the middle... 


Speaking of ads in the middle, I have a huge pet peeve about that and whenever I was given the chance I opted not to include any mid-roll ads. I absolutely abhor people who throw mid-roll ads in (unless there was a logical spot for them, then it's a-ok by me because that's the television way and I'm used to it), so I didn't want to subject my audience to that. 

In keeping with the 'don't annoy the shit out of my audience' path, I've also opted not to have any skippable ads play on videos that are shorter than 3 minutes. I don't want anyone getting any ads that might be longer than my actual video, that's just annoying. In addition, I've only applied non-skippable ads to videos longer than 20 minutes, and in the 200 or so I've set up monetization on there was probably 10 or less, so you won't really have to worry about that either. I didn't opt for any ad cards at all because people don't even click the cards I have set up in almost every video, so I'm sure there wouldn't be much point in adding ad cards, now would there? 

... I know the next post was supposed to be Twitch plans for 2020 but I felt as though this was a slightly more immediate thing to post. Also! Be sure to tune in to the Kage_Okami on Sunday, as I'll be launching the 1000 sub giveaway, and this time it's a BIG one!