Browser Live Streaming Showdown - StreamYard VS Melon VS Restream - Who is King?

hello my youtube friends there are three big players in the browser-based live streaming game at least for now stream yard restream and melon we have an all-out battle royale on our hands which one is the best we're gonna find out today so let's get to it [Music] my analytics say that 80 of the folks that watch my content are not subscribed am i doing something wrong if so let me know in the comments but if you are looking for tools tips and tricks that can help make you a better youtuber or live streamer subscribe to the channel and click that bell so you don't miss any new content it's totally free we have a lot to look at and compare with these three fantastic apps first i'm gonna compare the feature sets that you get with each of these pieces of software second i'm gonna compare the ease of use for each piece of software third i'm going to break down adding a guess to each of these applications and show you it from the guest perspective as well fourth i want to compare the pricing what each includes for free and how the feature tiers break down and last but not least i'm going to give you the pros and cons of each app and my personal recommendations or thoughts there are links to melon restream studio and stream yard in the description so you can check them out for yourself and it's totally free so why not okay let's dive into these features all three of these applications have the ability to use a green screen and add and remove a logo right here in stream yard we're gonna look at the multimedia features you can add overlays to your live stream you can also add video clips and these video clips will play over top of anything that's actually on the screen it also has a background feature so these will be featured behind your actual screens now we're gonna flip over into melon and it has this really fantastic themes feature where you can select from a bunch of different themes that have animated text and animated overlays and all kinds of cool stuff each one of the different themes will give you different fonts and all that and the best part is if you flip over into design you can then adjust those themes by adding your own background and your own overlay you can even upload your own backgrounds or overlays if you like it also has a video feature which will play over everything on the screen starting out here in restream there is an overlay function in the graphics section you can add overlays that are already there or your own in video clips there are a bunch of countdowns already here these countdowns add over top of your screen so that anything that's actually in the background is going to be overlaid i did upload one of my own videos right here for my intro you can also add background images these will show up behind your layout when you're adding guests or something like that and some of these are animated and they can look really pretty cool now if we hop back over into stream yard let's take a look at their text tools and they have a lower third tool called banners and you can write your own just click on it and it'll show it down here in the lower third there is a way you can kind of adjust the way that these things appear and then back over here in melon it has the same kind of banners but you can actually resize these and move them anywhere you want on the screen and then it also has a ticker feature you can write in your own text you can move the text from left to right or right to left and you can also move the ticker from the top to the bottom back here in restream we're going to take a look at the text capabilities you can add and remove basically what i would say is lower thirds you type up whatever you want you can select them and add them right here back here in stream yard there is a video file feature which will play a video file directly from your hard drive and these files can be paused if you mouse over the actual file and then if you go into comments you can see the comments from your chat right here in comments and you can actually select one and post it to the screen here in melon one of the coolest unique features is the ability to add an alert and these come right out of stream labs it's the benefit of actually being owned by stream labs so you could put an alert in there for donations subscribers members whatever you want they are really easy to configure and set up and this feature is just absolutely fantastic you can turn them on and off with the slider and it also has a donation goal as well it also has its own video feature you can add a video in move it around on the screen with the different layouts and the beautiful thing is if you mouse over it you can pause it adjust the volume level all that kind of stuff right here on your screen and of course it has the actual chat feature as well it's very simple to add now restream if you click down here on the plus you can add your own video file a local video it's going to show up here on the left and then you just click the slider to add it in and you can move this around by dragging it and dropping it over top of any of the windows that are already in there and maybe the coolest feature in restream is the ability to add background music right here you just click on add background music and you can add royalty free tracks to your background you just select one it shows up over here on the left as if it were a guest you can use the slider to add it and you can adjust the volume and the whole nine yards and then if we move on to the chat feature for restream studio it does have another unique feature here the ability to have a chat overlay if you turn this on on the right hand side of your screen all of your chat will show up as it scrolls down the screen you can also select any piece of individual chat click on it and it will show up right down in the bottom left hand corner as a lower third as well the last piece i want to show you is the screen capture and literally all three of these screen capture programs are exactly the same you'll see each one as i walk through gives you the ability to add a window share a screen share or a chrome tab and they function exactly the same as well all three of these offer some really unique features for sure but how easy is it to use each one of them for ease of setup i really just want to show you how long it would take if you just logged in and got ready to go live on each of these products so we're going to start out with stream yard we go up and we click login and we're just going to tell it what our gmail account is for our account and it's going to send us a login code to our gmail you just grab that code and put that code in here and boom it brings us right in now you can set up your destination we're going to click youtube and then we can create a broadcast i'm going to delete this one here and you just select where you want to go you put the title your live stream you put your description in you select your privacy then you can schedule it for later if you wanted to schedule your live stream you click create a broadcast and now we're ready to go we just entered the studio it's going to bring us up to this screen where we're going to add our camera and microphone and you just click the gear button go ahead and select your camera and your audio and you want to select what you want to listen to your audio through if you have guests coming on and you can adjust your mic volume here and my camera didn't come up so i clicked refresh and right away it came up after refreshing the screen and then you just click enter studio and really all you have to do is add yourself to the live stream and you can click go live and you're ready to go with stream yard over here in melon we're going to go ahead and click on products we're going to select melon then we're going to click login we're going to go ahead and log in with our account for youtube it's gonna just run us through the permissions for our account once we're in we can just click got it on this and we'll go down and adjust to make sure we have the right camera so you just click this little arrow here we can select our cam link that's what i'm using and select the resolution for your camera and then we can add our microphone by clicking this arrow here we're going to add our audio input and we're going to add the speaker or however we're going to be listening to our stream more than likely you should be using headphones here but you are free to use whatever you like the echo cancellation and all that stuff seems to work pretty well in melon so you can possibly get away without actually using headphones and then all you really need to do once you set that up is click the go live button down in the bottom right and boom you're live with melon so here we on the website we're just going to go to login and click log in now we can add a channel right here in the top left and you just select the one you want to add you can connect it to your youtube channel which is what i'm going to do it just walks you through the normal permissions and we allow it and then we can create an event all we need to do is click enter live studio up on the top right and that'll take us right into the live studio once we're in the live studio we want to go ahead and click this little gear button down here in the lower right and we can select our video input and we can select our resolution and then we're going to select our audio our microphone and last but not least our listening device so your speakers or your headphones or anything like that and you can also select your live stream quality what you want to live stream at and now we can just hit the go live button in the top right hand corner and we're ready to go live probably the biggest reason people use these apps is for the guest adding features so let's walk through how they work for the streamer and the guest so here's how a guest would enter from stream yard they have the link they click on the link it opens up a web browser that web browser is going to go ahead and ask you if you want to add your camera you can add your camera and allow then all you need to do is add your camera and microphone if it's not already added but most times it will be so all you need to do is put your name in the display name check that your audio works you can go into the camera here and adjust your camera settings and your microphone settings so your headphones are set up properly but once you do you just click enter the studio and you are in as the streamer what you're gonna do is grab this link right here in the invites send it out to your friends and now you can see down in the bottom people are appearing and you just add each individual by clicking on their screen you can remove them by clicking on their screen we'll add everyone in now we have four folks and here are the different layouts that you can use some of these layouts are pretty cool and you can just drag and drop someone into a different window if you like now here's how a guest is going to add to melon they get the link they click on the link it takes them to a webpage it asks them if they want to allow their camera and they give permission to allow their camera and microphone to be used then it brings up this screen where they're going to put their name in select their camera and microphone and also their audio output that they want to be listening to with their headphones and there are a couple of other settings that they can set here camera resolution and that sort of stuff once they're ready they just click join and they're in now from the actual streamers perspective you can see this is set up so you get your guests on the left hand side and we're going to copy out the link to invite our guests and they appear over there on the left and you just click show on stream to add them to the stream and now we have a fourth guest just click show on stream and you can solo folks by clicking these buttons right here and here are the different layouts that are available with streamlabs melon you can also just drag and drop a person from one window to another very easily and there are some really neat layouts here as well now we're going to take a look at adding someone with restream so they get the link they click on the link it takes them to a webpage once again they have to allow their mic and their camera then you just come in to this screen right here you can click on the microphone buttons or the little gear so that you can set up your microphone you put in your name and you click join stream it's really simple now over for the streamer i'm just going to click here and collect my link send it out to individuals and you see they show up here on the left hand side you just have to click this slider to add your guests and we'll add all of our guests here and this actually looks pretty nice what i'm going to do is i'm going to go through all of the layouts that you can use once again you can just drag and drop people into a different window if you want i do like how the animations kind of flow in it is really really cool and that is all the window setups all three are pretty easy to add guests to all three of these apps have free features and paid tiers so let's take a look and compare what you get with each one with stream yard for free you get screen sharing banners on screen comments six on screen participants or guests you get your brand colors and your green screen you can stream anywhere stream yard branding in all streams of course for free they're gonna brand the streams but you do have streaming limits you can stream for 20 hours a month and it resets every month now once you bump up to the basic for 25 dollars a month you get a lot more you get everything in the free plan plus they remove the branding you can stream unlimited 10 on-screen participants you can add your own logos your own overlays your own backgrounds you can use a custom rtmp record up to four hours of stream and of course multi-stream to three different destinations for the professional you can record up to eight hours multi-stream to eight destinations you get your full hd and individual audio recordings which is pretty nice with melon for free you can accept donations which means you can use the widgets and that's awesome you get real-time alerts from your supporters you do have streaming limits you can stream for four hours every month and it resets at the end of each month you can have guests up to two participants and you get a limited amount of brand customization with the melon branded watermark when you bump up to just 15 you get all the free stuff plus you remove the watermarks six participants unlimited streaming you can multi-stream up to three destinations up to four full hours of recording disconnect protection custom rtmp services 15 days of recording storage unlimited branding logo overlays and themes and you get to upload media files up to 150 megabit limit that is a whole heck of a lot for 15 and if you bump yourself up to pro you get all that plus nine participants audio only recordings if you want to do a podcast or something like that up to 10 hours of recording you can upload media files with a 300 megabyte limit multi-stream to an unlimited number of destinations in full hd 30 days of recording storage and priority support restream does have a very comprehensive free section you get to stream unlimited on-screen comments and captions chat overlays screen sharing background music high-res audio and up to six stream participants now you basically get the exact same thing for 19 a month with a few more stream participants and you really don't get anything additional until you move up to professional at 49 a month and then you can remove the watermark add the custom graphic overlays the video uploads stream in full hd and split the audio tracks for recording which is a really cool feature wow i mean that's a lot so all that's left are my thoughts on each app so which one is best this is one heck of a showdown and there are a lot of really really cool things about each piece of software for me i love the fact that restream has all these cool transitions when you're adding guests and you get a lot for free with restream with melon you get all the same layouts but for free it is really limited only four hours a month and that's kind of disappointing with that being said those four hours a month you do get to use the alerts and a lot of their other features which i think is really cool with stream yard you get 20 hours every month that resets at the end of the month but to be honest with you it feels kind of old they haven't done anything with stream yard since the last time i did a video it still has all the same layouts and to be honest with you it just seems like melon and restream studio have totally passed them now once you get into the middle tier to me it's no question hands down melon is the value winner you get so much in fact almost the whole shebang for just 15 a month whereas you're gonna pay more for the mid tier for restream studio and for stream yard and to be honest with you especially with restream studio you don't get that much in that mid tier you can't even remove the watermark with restream at that mid tier there really doesn't seem to be a lot of purpose for there to be a mid-tier for restream at all you do get a pretty decent amount though with stream yard but of course you pay a little bit more for it and you still don't have all of the cool layouts that you get with melon now once you go to that 50 price range i really do think it's pretty close and it's a matter of priorities between restream and melon if you want to have the alerts and that connection with stream labs and the ability to stream to as many destinations as you want at the same time then melon is the hands down winner if you're going to be doing podcasting and things like that then maybe restream studio is a good one to look at because you can record the audio tracks separately and that is a really cool thing and of course you still can live stream to a couple of different locations at the same time and you can also do that with stream yard the odd man out here seems to be stream yard it really doesn't do anything better than either of the other pieces of software in fact it kind of has a lot less features for what feels like more money and that's not to say that it's a bad piece of software any of these streaming softwares that you choose is going to get the job done for you but for me personally if i was going to choose between the three i'd probably choose melon and the thing that really does it for me is the fact that you can add alerts to your live streams i want that extra level of interaction with my audience that neither stream yard or restream offer it has almost all the same layouts that you can get with restream and i love the themes where you can change all of the fonts and all the backgrounds and all the foregrounds i just think it's got so much to offer and while the actual ui isn't quite as pretty as restreams at the end of the day i'm looking for great features reliability and of course price because i'm a cheap dude as for stream yard i don't know what they've been doing for the last year but i really hope that they decide to step up their game because we need that competition that kind of competition is the reason why restream and melon have gotten so good so fast but i think it's time for them to step it up now don't forget there are links to each one of these in the description for you to have a look for yourself and let me know what you think in the comments and if you want a more in-depth look at melon stream yard or restream check these videos out if you're always looking for tools tips and tricks that can help make you a better youtuber or a live streamer subscribe to the channel it's totally free my name is michael fire jr thank you so much for watching have a great day and i'll see you in the next one

Channel: Michael Feyrer Jr.

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Length: 20min 0sec (1200 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 10 2021