If you're a streamer or creator - you should be including stream overlays in your setup for a number of reasons. You want to make your stream look good, but you also want them to be a good investment for you to make. Visually engaging and stimulating overlays are part of the key to keeping people watching your stream and are a motivation for people to support you.

Installing stream overlays that look clean and professional is a great way to instill some faith with your viewers, showing you are committed and are taking your content seriously. Creating a level of viewer trust, highlighting your stream celebrations, call-to-actions and other triggerable events will encourage your viewers to take part in your content and support you.

We are going to go through 5 of the top ways to create viewer engagement and trust that can boost your donations, subs, bits and other revenue on stream.

Alerts are the main way you showcase points to celebrate in your stream - new followers, subscribers, donations and more. Stream alerts are triggered by viewers interacting with an event that causes a visual input to appear on stream.

In short - alerts are the way to show gratitude and recognition to your supporters. Their name will pop up on screen with a personalized message in a way that is celebratory and unforgettable for them.

When it comes to picking your alerts, consider the following:

• What content are you streaming? Consider having alert designs that work with that.
• Choose dynamic motion graphics with animations and paired sound effects to make the experience even more visually pleasing
• Add in a unique message so that your viewers feel appreciated and therefore more likely to support you again
• Think about your overall branding and choose something that fits
• Tier your alerts for bigger celebrations. 3D Animated Alerts are big and interesting and could be used for your biggest supporters.

Your viewers will love to help support you with your goals. Seeing something be tracked in real time adds a level of anticipation to you reaching your target, and excitement to help you get there. Your stream goals will become your community's goal.

There are many options on how to show your goals on stream, stream widgets being the usual way. Think about adding one of them to your stream the next time you go live and consider the following:

• Progress bars and goal trackers - especially those that transcend platforms so that multiple communities are included - are a great way to get your viewers involved
• Put in realistic milestones that you believe your viewers can help you get to
• Make sure to celebrate your goals when you get there - add in special announcements or labels or alerts
• Countdowns are a great addition to add a sense of urgency to your goals

When you are streaming, one of the ways to keep your stream alive is to add interactive stream overlays.

These can traverse a lot of categories and it would be easier to break them down:

• Seasonal stream overlays, such as those for Halloween, and event themed stream overlays give your stream a fresh look, encourage engagement and you can use them to promote support by adding in donation drives.
• Stinger transitions help your viewers stay tuned and seamlessly move you from scene to scene without viewers becoming uninterested whilst you change content
• Encourage social interactions and broach new subjects with intermission and Just Chatting scenes that will open up a new side of content to your viewers and make you more personable and trustworthy to your viewers. This kind of loyalty breeds support.
• Emotes are a great way to entice people to subscribe to your channel so they can unlock them

Other ways are to include polls, leader boards, trackers and other ways of your viewers directly impacting your content with choosing games, loadouts and more.

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