RE: 🔴 Superchat: Test Hangout! 👍

I personally haven't seen a ton of income from SuperChat on YT but we don't have a ton of live viewers there. They live on Twitch for us. And Twitch has come back hard. They'v opened up monetization streams a LOT so even smaller streamers can start to see income from Bits that are spent on the platform.

YouNow is also on a big growth trajectory and people there can tip while they watch as well. (The demographics for YouNow are currently pretty young but there's no reason that can't change. I'm looking at test streams in YouNow soon.)

I will say that in some ways, minus the existence of a Patreon account, streaming has a LOT of potential for monetized content. I would argue even easier that YouTube, since YT payouts per mille are still super low. Direct support from your audience has a much bigger ROI than leaning on ads and have for a LONG time.

I'd suggest diving in and playing with it. You can also simulcast to all at once with some services like Restream.io

Remember too that Twitch and YT both will either demonetize or mute your archives if they find copywritten material. But that only matters if you care about monetization on archives. If you're looking to generate income during the stream then there are plenty of royalty free libraries for music and stuff on spotify and others that can be used as background.