How to Create a Stream Schedule

Why a Schedule is Essential

According to Twitch's official Creator Camp, it's crucial that your viewers know where and when to find you. This allows them to build a routine around your stream times and come back regularly.

A schedule helps professionalize your streaming activity. It allows you to set a rhythm, organize your week of streams, and plan the content you'll offer.

Define Your Streaming Frequency

Ideally, streaming 2 hours per day at a fixed time produces good results. Regular streams create a "date" with your viewers, making it easier to have an audience at each of your streams.

Not everyone is a full-time streamer. You may have a job, hobbies, family life... Even with 3 days per week, creating and sharing a schedule is important. It's a commitment to your community.

Steps to Create Your Schedule

1. Analyze Your Availability

List your constraints (work, family, other activities) and identify time slots where you can stream regularly and peacefully.

2. Choose Fixed Time Slots

Consistency is key. 3 streams per week at the same times is better than 7 streams at random hours. Your viewers need to be able to anticipate your streams.

3. Define Your Content

Watch out for variety streaming: playing too many different games risks scattering your community. At first, viewers follow a streamer for a specific game, and only later stay for the personality.

4. Create a Visual Schedule

A professional visual schedule reinforces your image and makes sharing on social media easier. That's where tools like MyPlanning come in.

Where to Share Your Schedule

• On Twitch directly: use the built-in "Stream Schedule" so viewers can request specific notifications
• On Discord: share your schedule in a dedicated channel of your community server
• On social media: Twitter/X, Instagram, with eye-catching visuals and engaging descriptions
• In your Twitch panels: add a schedule image to your panels below the stream