A suggestion for the promotion of Roll20

I really like the Old School Adventures and also the Burning Wheel campain organised and streamed by Roll20, but the reminder of the week the channel remains unused. I'm not saying that they need to stream more games as that would bring its own problems with it but in the time the channel isnt live there is still a way for it to promote Roll20. There are other channels that regulary stream TTRPGs and use Roll20 to network its players. twitch.tv/ericVulgaris , twitch.tv/misscliks , twitch.tv/itmeJP and twitch.tv/encounterRoleplay are just a few that spring to mind. Some of these channels have more regular viewers then the Roll20 shows, OSA for example has about 300 to 400, but there are also far more channels out there that have less, also to concider is that most other channels (I know of) that regulary stream TTRPGs stream to other times then the Roll20 shows and so would not impede on their viewerbase. By hosting these other channels on twitch on a regular basis Roll20 would create a more centralised community that could come to roll20app to watch different RPG shows together, also would it promote other channels which in return could promote Roll20(thanks for the host etc). I'm sure that with time the viewer base on roll20app would increase. An other suggestion I would like to make is that in the viewer base for both Roll20 shows there are people that regulary stream their own RPG games, I'm sure that under these there are some that would like to take the place or timeslot of one of the Shows if it got canceled to run their own campains/oneshots. These people could stream them on their own channels and Roll20app could host their channels for the time, this way the time slot would still be filled, people could watch a fun show, even if they came for another and have a great time with the community in chat. Some people even suggested this approach the last time Burning Wheel show got canceled and EricVulgaris commented that he hoped to at one point offer his show "Once Upon a Game" as a filler for the canceled show. I hope that these suggestions appeal to the people at Roll20 and the community at large and that with them they community can grow.

Greetings! Thanks for the suggestion! We are actually actively meeting on how we can improve our Twitch channel! In fact just yesterday we discussed hosting - we're trying to figure out how to best handle it without splitting audiences. We've also created and are currently working to include tons of members of the community in the  Online Role-Playing:Index - we intend to look to this directory when figuring out hosting on Twitch, plus it is also a great place to go now to find new content. We've also recently brought on a new  Brand Manager Suzanne and her addition to the team will allow us to give Twitch the proper focus it deserves. Feel free to leave any additional suggestions below and we will make sure to consider this info as we progress!

Thank you for the reply and its great to know that such an improvement was already considered. I believe setting up a list of "approved" streamers to host is a good first step. The only suggestion that comes to mind right now would be to define some guidelines or criteria for when several of the streamers on that list stream on the same time. Since the endgoal of the hosting of other streamers on Roll20app is to increase the regular viewercount, streams with more native viewers, better quality and or a better realtionship with the community and roll20(if something like this can even be quanntified) should be given preference. Maybe a shedule of the hosted streams could be set up, it certainly would be helpful to the viewers and bring people to the shedule side as a centralised shedule for RPG twitch content, but that could be problematic if the hosted streams are not regular so I dont know if this would work. Anyway I hope this works out and that the roll20 community will grow with it.

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