Posting times

Best time to post, for gaming creators.

The hours are late and they are not the hours any general guide recommends. The audience is awake when the streams are, which is evening through the small hours, and weekend afternoons behave like weekday evenings. This is the niche where following published advice most reliably puts a post in front of nobody.

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The shape of the week

Evening through the small hours
Weekend afternoons
Straight after a stream

Evening through the small hours

The audience is awake when the streams are. This is the niche where a post made at nine in the morning reaches close to nobody.

How this audience spends its day, not hours read from anybody's account.

The shape of the week

When gaming creators are actually reachable.

Evening through the small hours

The audience is awake when the streams are. This is the niche where a post made at nine in the morning reaches close to nobody.

Weekend afternoons

They behave like a weekday evening, and they are the one daytime window in this niche worth anything.

Straight after a stream

The clip is fresh and the people who were watching still have a phone in their hand. The window is short and it closes overnight.

The hours every guide repeats describe everybody, not gaming creators, and we have not checked them against any account. They are on the posting times guide.

Find your own hours

Three tests for a gaming account.

Run each one for two weeks and change one thing at a time. The number to compare is named beside each test, because likes alone will tell you the wrong story.

1Post the weekend highlight late on Sunday night instead of Monday morning.Compare: Shares, because clips get sent to friends who play the same game.
2Announce a stream two hours before instead of the day before.Compare: Countdown sticker reminders and stream attendance.
3Publish a guide carousel on the day a game updates.Compare: Saves per account reached.

The number worth watching here: shares, and comments from people who do not follow you. Gaming audiences are built by being passed between friends and inside communities. A comment from a non-follower means the post escaped your own audience, which is the thing an account away from a stream needs in order to grow at all.

In Synclify

Your own hours beat any average.

Connect an account and the guessing stops. Synclify reads 90 days of your own audience's hours, day by hour, in your account's timezone, and a week's plan schedules into them.

Read from your posts and your followers' activity, per account, never from an industry average.