Gagandeep Singh, 24, aka Sikhwarrior is a Lucknow resident and a full-time streamer. Recently, YouTube had organized NextUp for content creators from which 12 participants were selected throughout India. The five-day event was held at Chennai in which Technical Guruji, CarryMinati and BeastBoyShub were invited as guest speakers. The five-day session was full of information which would help these content creators to grow their YouTube channel. The content creators were also given vouchers worth Rs 1.04 Lakhs production voucher and were given training on various aspects.
For the unversed, Gagandeep Singh is a B Tech graduate and took to full time streaming on his YouTube channel Sikhwarrior after his channel grew since 2017. Gagandeep first tried his hands on Twitch by streaming Counter-Strike in 2014 and after humongous support from fans, he now plays Grand Theft Auto V roleplay as Jassi Pinkman. The support was such that he keeps on creating quality content by playing various multiplayer games on his channel which has 110K subscribers.
"It was a very informative session. For me, big takeaways were to balance streaming and uploading of videos on my channel. I plan to implement it aggressively. We got to know more about copyright act and various aspects of making quality content", said Gagandeep Singh.
He also spoke about how budding YouTubers can grow their channel, he said, "It is very important that the balance is maintained between streaming and uploading videos. Content should be creative and it should be a continuous process. In India, it is often misconstrued that live streaming is the only option to grow YouTube channel but it should be understood that uploading of videos is also important."
Recently, Ines Cha, Head of Creator Ecosystem and Gaming Partnerships, Asia Pacific, YouTube visited India and had said, "India is the top-priority gaming market for us in the Asia Pacific region. We are excited to see a growing livestreaming community on YouTube from here and will extend all our support to help them gain further ground."