So a lot is happening in March here on our channel! Firstly, let’s talk about the team changes.
I’ve joined a group of professional streamers in a new venture called New Game Plus. What is New Game Plus and how will it change the stream? The short answer is this: New Game Plus represents a change in the stream itself. Over the last couple years, the stream has gone from Hobby to Dream to Profession. New Game Plus is the representation of that last word: Profession. NG+ is a group of professional streamers, who are all stations in their own regard, working together to further their career on Twitch. It’s designed from the ground up with teamwork in mind, group sponsorships/promotions and “Twitch End-game” as a focus.
So that brings us to the next question…
“If you’re helping lead New Game Plus, what happens to your current stream team, The Cohhilition?”
The Cohhilition started as a group of people from my personal streaming community that I felt were great streamers but needed that extra bit of exposure. Over time, it became much less of that and much more of “friends of Cohh” team. Over the last couple years, we’ve invited many big names to the team with the express purpose of extending communication, networking and the like. The team was performing admirably to its nature (of networking and communication), but started to greatly lose focus in the promotion of smaller streamers from within our community. NG+ and the changes I’m making to the Cohhilition have that exact concept in mind.
I’m making some big changes to the Cohhilition in the coming weeks. We’ll be releasing most of our established streamers, reopening recruitment to streamers from the Cohhilition community and focusing more on getting exposure where it’s needed. Although I’ll be in and representing New Game Plus, you’ll actually be hearing a lot more about Cohhilition as we move forward from my channel. As I’ve learned in the last few years, different streamers (and streamers in different positions of their career) all need different things from teams. The Cohhilition, before now, had so many different types of streamers in it that it wasn’t agile enough to really do much of… Well… Anything. Smaller streamers got lost in the list behind the big names, the established streamers weren’t getting deals or sponsor opportunities due to the sheer size of the team… It lacked focus. Everything I’m doing now is to bring that focus back to where it started, while allowing those from the team (that were foundational members and already established) a venue to continue their professional Twitch careers.
So here are where the teams heading:
The Cohhilition - A group of starter/growing streamers that can use exposure, promotion and inclusion from my overall streaming community based in my personal channel. These are streamers that do not have Subscriber buttons (or have recently aquired them) or are still working to that 500+ viewer mark, AKA “growing streamers”. The Cohhilition will have an internal team manager and we’ll soon be hooking in some bot mechanics to help with promotion on other social media as well. The Cohhilition will be, as where it started, a team for promoting streamers from within my personal community on Twitch. The point of the Cohhilition will be growth, exposure and making that leap from Hobby/Dream to Professional.
New Game Plus - This will be my new home as a professional Twitch streamer. A small, agile group of individuals, all who carry their own weight (and don’t need the extra promotion of the Cohhilition) and have established themselves as successful Twitch entities. NG+ is much more “business” oriented; it requires full time representation, optional inclusion in deals/sponsorships, monthly meetings, has a full-time & paid manager, business representation, etc. Similarly to the path my channel has taken over the last couple years, New Game Plus represents the next step in bringing that thinking to a team format. Every streamer in New Game Plus also adheres to this thinking and together we can help each other get to where we want to be. The point of New Game Plus is taking established streamers and allowing them to function in a cohesive team unit that will facilitate their upward mobility on Twitch and as a career streamer.
This change has been a long time coming. It has been a good while now that I’ve been thinking about doing this type of action and now is the time to make it happen. I’m extremely excited about the future of both teams and am looking forward to bringing in many new faces to the Cohhilition.
On that note, recruitment information (on how to join the Cohhilition) will be available later in March.
Thanks for taking the time to read this! If you have any questions, drop by the channel when I’m live and I’ll do my best to answer them. Thanks guys!
Fo R me, as a viewer it is still difficult to grasp the idea behind 'stream teams' in their current format. It seems it is just a group of friends, like a guild in a game, but their goals are hidden far far away from the public. Glad to see someone redefine the status quo.
