Kamcord - Live stream your mobile gaming and watch gaming celebs

@russfrushtick Hey Russ! 1) Honestly, I'd say Clash of Clans was really the first game of it's kind to really gather a community & "hardcore" audience. I started YouTube for Clash in 2012, and the only mobile gaming channel I had seen with over a few thousand subscribers was an Angry Birds channel with a little bit over 50,000. Mobile gaming in the video/streaming community has definitely made a strong push over the last 2.5 years, and it's been a blast to see it grow! 2) This is a question I get a lot - the beauty with Clash (and the reason it's perfect for YouTube) is that there are soooo many things you can do with the game. When you're bored with trophy pushing? Farm. Bored with farming? Clan wars. Getting stale? New updates every month. It's really remarkable how the game stays fresh, and because of that it's easy to make videos for the game! 3) Hmm. Some of the numbers that desktop/console users see on their streams are crazy... But you never know! I think mobile has a bright future, we've seen a bunch of new quality games come out over the last year, and better games means bigger communities + more people getting into the streaming scene. As many people have said, mobile really is the future when it comes to consuming content, whether games/movies/etc. & I think the mobile streaming scene will grow with it. 4) Oh god... There's plenty of obvious fails (all of which I did myself when I started). I think the number one thing that people get wrong is crowding all their storages in a single compartment. When your storages are separate, it's tough to reach each and every one of them - but when they're crowded in the center? $$$ 5) When it comes to mobile, I've only watched Clash streams. So I'd probably say Nickatnyte, his streams are chill and easygoing. Check him out!

@rrhoover you're not the only one! A lot of people have been skeptical about community for mobile games in general. They see the fans at E3 for big console launches and wonder where that enthusiasm is for mobile games. I think the most important thing to remember though for mobile is how intimately attached people are to their phones. They check their phones constantly and as a result they can participate in mobile communities nonstop. It's not as public facing as wearing a costume to a convention but the engagement is just as deep.

@ethreep0 @rrhoover we've been lucky to see mobile gamers interact closely for the last 2 years on Kamcord (we launched profiles in 2013). Our users were so crazed about each other's replays and dedicated to mobile gaming that it gave us a lot of confidence that we didn't need to branch out into other platforms for live streaming. I think there's a temptation when you build a product to try to make it work for a million different use cases. You folks can probably relate to this urge at PH. There's a million things you could go do, right? In reality though, to execute effectively on a product you have to hyper focus on a few things. When we surveyed the landscape it was clear to us that neither Twitch nor YouTube was prioritizing mobile gaming the way it deserved even though there's a huge demand for the content.

@eriktorenberg I'm not much of a developer, but when thinking about what draws me to a mobile game is really the "touch". Compared to console/desktop games, mobile games are generally free and have to deliver a good experience in the first 5 minutes - or they're deleted! Seeing that game has the right "touch" when downloaded will give your game a chance when it's going to be competing against both your users attention span + the other 1,000s of games in the app store.

@eriktorenberg we're huge believers in community. If you look at which games are evergreen on mobile (Clash of Clans, Game of War, Boom Beach, Minecraft, etc.), they have invested heavily in building deeply engaging and active communities. On average, however, when people start developing games, laying out the plan for the community doesn't happen (if it happens at all) until the end of the dev cycle. And even then there usually aren't the same resources behind the community efforts as something more quantitative like the monetization economy

@shaanvp totally legitimate question. A lot of people ask this and are skeptical. In reality I don't think, there's going to be a Twitch mobile. I think there's going to be a killer live streaming platform for mobile. To build that you're going to have to look to entirely different sources to figure out what to build. Having relationships with top mobile gamers like @ChiefPat has really guided our thinking when it comes to product. For example, one of the things we obsess over is the optimal experience for pulling creators' fans into their streams. What's the right balance between push notifs, email, schedules, etc. for mobile-first users?

@ethreep0 @shaanvp to use your analogy. Vine is probably the closest thing we have to a video Instagram, but Vine didn't follow Instagram's product playbook to get there.

@vdessertenne I don't have a ton of intuition around this topic to be honest. I've never followed the handheld market. When I look at the macro trends and see mobile growing so quickly, however, I have to imagine handhelds will be extinct in the next 5 years. To your point, I suspect accessories for mobile devices will be much more popular due to the rise of VR.