Receiving tips from your viewers can be a fantastic way to generate additional revenue while you're live streaming. It's essential to create a positive and engaging atmosphere that encourages tips
Embrace Gamification: Make your live stream interactive and fun by gamifying the experience. Consider incorporating tip-based challenges or rewards to entice viewers to tip. For instance, you could say, "I'll do a special song if we reach a certain tipping milestone," or "The first five people to tip £10 can request a song of their choice."
Highlight the Benefits: Instead of directly asking for tips, focus on the benefits viewers will receive by supporting you. Let them know how their contributions will help improve your content, enable you to invest in better equipment, or create more exciting projects in the future.
Express Appreciation: Gratitude goes a long way. Always express genuine appreciation for your viewers and any support they provide, whether it's through tips, likes, or comments. Let them know that their contributions mean a lot to you and motivate you to continue creating content.
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Childe, Lounges creator
Provide Value: Ensure your live stream offers valuable and engaging content that keeps viewers entertained. When viewers see the effort and passion you put into your content, they'll be more inclined to support you through tips.
Showcase Your Goals: Share your creative goals and aspirations with your audience. Let them know how their tips can help you reach these objectives and improve the overall quality of your streams.
Be Authentic: Be true to yourself and your content. Viewers appreciate authenticity, and when they feel a genuine connection with you, they're more likely to support you through tips voluntarily.
Remember, you don't need to directly ask for tips or pressure your audience to contribute. Instead, focus on providing value, building a strong community, and expressing your gratitude. The tip functionality is available to all viewers, and whether you encourage its use or not is entirely up to you. Your tips, along with your ticket revenue, will be visible in your wallet, allowing you to track your earnings and continue creating content that resonates with your audience.
Profile tipping
This new feature allows anyone to tip you anytime and not just during events and videos. They just need to go to your Lounges profile page and they will be able to donate however much they would like using the yellow "Send Tip" button.
How do I receive tips in the app?
Please note that all purchases - whether they be tickets or tips - have to be made via mobile or laptop web. This is due to the commission percentage that Apple charges for in-app purchases, which wouldn't allow us to promise 80% of the earnings to artists. Because Lounges' mission is to protect creator's rights and revenue, we decided not to penalise creators with lower revenue share. You may support your favourite creators anytime using their profile tip button feature though!
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