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I've streamed coding a few times on Twitch at my channel (14domino). My setup is much more similar to my coding setup so the font can definitely look small. Does anyone know a good way to advertise coding streams in general? I mostly get 2-3 viewers who are already my friends, and I doubt they're very engaged, but I do like streaming coding and would love it if people could learn something out of it. :)

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It should be much like any other sort of marketing effort. Seek out some marketing books. Maybe pay a social media marketer to do some marketing for you if you don't feel you have the necessary skills or can't pick them up fast enough.

There's also good old fashioned networking, too. Find social coders with a similar style to you (and a reasonable audience) that you could be friends with / mesh well with. Try to make friends with them. Try to do streams after their regularly scheduled streams and encourage them to send their active audience along to your channel when they are done for the day. (That's what Twitch Raids are; Twitch built an entire viral networking tool for that.)

Youtube videos. You need to have a youtube channel and put up videos for people to discover if you want to grow.

With twitch alone it's easy to get lost among the other streamers, and I'm not necessarily going to dig through VODs either.

Putting a condensed version of your stream to a youtube playlist and having links to your twitch will help a lot.

I believe code streamers need to bring their own audience from some other thing.

It's not what you want to hear, but it is what I've seen.

While that can help, it's not necessary. What is necessary is increasing the amount and/or consistency of time streaming (sticking to a solid schedule really helps) and always be talking and interacting with chat. It may take many months to build up an audience, but you can do it.

Ok but everyone that says that pulls tiny numbers

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