How to Multi-Stream (to Twitch, Kick, Tiktok, YouTube, WHEREVER!)

if you've been watching this channel for a while this video might seem a little weird Harris you've always been avidly against multi-streaming what's changed well honestly nothing the secret is I never hated multi-streaming people just wanted to use it for a reason where it wasn't effective and you know what how about this at the end of this video I will get into exactly my stanza multi-streaming where it works and where it doesn't what changed and why I'm encouraging it now but in the meantime let's make this a pretty quick walkthrough of all the different ways to multi-stream because I'm sick I want to run this thing through my body and be done with it I want to spend the rest of the day sitting on the couch playing Zelda let's talk about easy ways to multi-stream how you should multi-stream depending on the power of your PC also maybe you want extra customization do you want to stream horizontally to these sites and vertically to these sites at the same time let's get into all that 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multi-streaming or multicasting or simult Samuel simul simulcasting whatever you want to call it it's all the same thing you're streaming to multiple places at once there are three main methods to do this and then you got some gray area in between but for the most part this gives you the three things that you need to take a look at and decide which one works the best for you let's start with the easiest where you just set up one stream and click a go live and it goes everywhere and then we'll go with a more complicated one at the end where let's say you want to do horizontal and vertical at the same time you can do that pretty easily actually now method number one is using an online service like restream.io there are a handful of services they all work similarly maybe they have different prices maybe a couple different features but for the most part how it works is you set up a stream in OBS instead of then sending that stream to your platform to Twitch or to YouTube you send it to restream and then restream sends it everywhere else this is great for streamers with lower end PCS that aren't able to encode more multiple instances at the same time or maybe low internet speeds that aren't able to send it to the different platforms themselves this is also a great simple solution for people that don't want to figure out how to do everything else and install plugins take a look in the OBS settings if you go to the stream Tab and take a look at Services normally it's YouTube or twitch you can actually see one for restream.io they're integrated directly into OBS so you just sign in there with your restream account you're good you can stream wherever you want now the free version of restream is limited to two different platforms and you're not going to have a lot of customization options because you're basically sending one stream everywhere so you have to think about things like alerts and chats and everything it's going to be simple but maybe simple is what you want also maybe you only want two platforms this is a great option but let's jump to Method number two where maybe it opens up some doors a little bit you have a little bit more flexibility and it's also free there's an OBS plugin called OBS multi-rtmp that allows you to take your stream again a singular stream and send it as many places as you want where it's different from restream is this is all happening on your computer it is a plug-in that you install into OBS that I will link to down below it's going to add a dock to OBS that allows you to sign into your platform accounts like twitch Kik and YouTube and then when you hit go live which will send your stream to your mainstream you also hit the go live buttons on that plugin and send it wherever you want now this is great because you're no longer limited to two different locations so if you want to go to three or more you're good it's completely free and you don't have to have a restream watermark on your stream like you had to with a free version of restream at least at the time of making this video where it's not so good is now you start utilizing a little bit more of your resources you have a lot of customization options here on each platform you can change the bit rate the resolution you can stream on 4K to YouTube and 1080p to Twitch if you really want to but just know that every platform that has a different stream setting is going to require another instance of encoding so if your PC is is low to mid level maybe you're trying to save as many resources you can to get frames in your game I recommend keeping all the settings on every platform exactly the same that way it's going to take the exact same encoded image and just send it everywhere but just know that every platform that you are sending your stream to is requiring more and more bandwidth for example if you're encoding in six megabits per second like twitch encourages and you're sending both to Twitch and YouTube and to kick right that is three different places that you are sending six megabits per second to that's a total of 18 megabits per second that your upload speed is going to have to hand handle so if your internet is slower you're hitting some lag maybe lower that bit rate a little bit and also a little pointer with restreaming I want to add in here a chat managing multiple chats can be kind of difficult restream does give you a plug-in to go into OBS that allows you to combine all of your chat for you but it doesn't combine the chat for the viewer and then kind of throw off the intimacy of a live stream when someone is having a conversation with people that you can't even see or read it no longer feels like you're in a group with them it feels like they're talking to a totally different group I recommend using some kind of chat combiner tool something like botricks it's a free tool that not only combines the chat for you but then you can overlay on your own stream I'll link to a great tutorial video down below I've shown a couple shots of her video on this video but I think combining your chats and overlaying them somewhere into your stream is a great solution here that way no matter what platform your viewers are watching on they're always in the know about the chat and they feel like they're a part of the group but now let's get into method number three and this is where we want to get a little bit more custom we've already sent a single stream to a platform and had it restreamed for us we've sent a single stream out to multiple platforms ourselves but what if I want to stream to Twitch and kick at the same time and only twitch sees the twitch alerts and only kick sees the kick alerts while there is a secret with the free plugin that we actually released at Adam a couple months ago if you're not aware of the free vertical plugin for OBS it adds a second camera to your OBS that sits right next to your main canvas and typically it's vertical and it can be used for a lot of different things the main thing that it's used for is sitting there recording tick tocks while you're live it even gives you a second list of vertical scenes and vertical sources so you can completely customize this just like regular OBS the secret though is if you open up the vertical settings and you go into resolution you can actually type in the horizontal resolution you can type in 1920 by 1080 and now you have double OBS sitting there inside OBS and because it's running in one instance of OBS it is adding a very small load to your computer's resources so now you can set up one for twitch and one for Kik or one for YouTube or whatever you want hit the setting things to add in your stream key right in the vertical settings in there and hit go live on both and now you're live in both places but and I know a lot of people have been typing in the comments this whole time isn't multi-streaming against twitch TOS yes yes it is that's part of the reason I want to do it I'm 34 and I'm still like angry at daddy twitch so maybe you're watching this and you want to follow the TOs and you want to stream to both twitch and Tick Tock which is allowed you are allowed to multi-stream on Twitch and a non-competing platform typically mobile vertical platforms like Tick Tock and Instagram or whatever this can be hard because they don't give out stream keys in fact Tick Tock has been revoking stream keys because they want everyone to use their Tick Tock live studio let me just put a damper on your goals don't ever expect a stream key from Tick Tock plan to do this instead Tick Tock live studio is not great software if you try to build a whole stream in there like you would with OBS it uses way more resources than it's supposed to so instead what you do is you set up this vertical plugin exactly how you want you link your vertical scenes with your main scene so that way when you switch to your just chatting or your gameplay on your main canvas it also switches on your vertical canvas and then you click that brand new little button we recently added called virtual camera now OBS is sending out that vertical image as a virtual camera that you can now pick up in Tick Tock studio and for that matter also add in the lbs multi rtmp plugin that we mentioned earlier that was method number two and take your horizontal canvas send that multiple places take your vertical one send that wherever you want it to go now you're a multi-stream master and you stream wherever you want look at you but Harris what changed why are you okay with multi-streaming now when you were so adamantly against it before usually when people talk to me about multi-streaming it's because they're trying to get discovered it's a small streamer trying to get in front of as many people as possible to grow and it was this weird contradiction that was happening where everybody recognizes that there is zero discoverability being live there are people that have been streaming for three people for five years five days a week they just don't get discovered because live streaming doesn't really Foster great discoverability as a medium if you want to get discovered on your live stream you have to be making tick tocks you have to be making YouTube videos you have to be making shorts it's the only way to do it and so multiplying Zero discoverability by two platforms or three platforms still zero zero times anything is still going to be zero and don't even try to divide by zero I just did that once would not recommend but there's something that's significantly changed over the last couple years last time I talked about this was two three years ago when twitch was still the place where almost everybody watched their live streams viewership was very highly concentrated into a single area whereas now you have a whole team of kick people over here you got a whole team of twitch viewers you got a whole team of YouTube viewers it is much more diverse much more spread out amongst multiple platforms and frankly even the people watching on their platform aren't super happy with their platform so with this viewership being much more spread out let's say you post a tick tock and it does some numbers it gets picked up by the algorithm and a lot of people see you that want to watch your live content let's say you got Jimmy over here right who sees your Tick Tock for the first time he's like ah I relate to that guy I want to watch him but he streams on YouTube and I like to watch on Kik well it looks like I'm not going to be watching this streamer in this situation multi-streaming is not casting a wider net to try to get discovered more and bring in new viewers it is being live anywhere where someone who discovers you might like to watch a stream if Billy Joe over here finds your YouTube short and likes to watch on YouTube You're live there if Miley cyrie over here watches Tick Tock and wants to catch you on Kick while you're live there and you're monetized in both places multi-streaming as a final destination with how diverse the viewership has gotten recently starting to make a lot of sense and it's at least something worth looking into also speaking of looking into apparently Dr disrespect wants to make an album I I really got to come out with an album huh I just need some beats producers give me a call flip phones wide open doc are you just talking big or do you actually want to step into a studio because I got one let's get you in here let's make an album I don't buy it but we'll see anyway hit the like button if you haven't already comment down below what platform you stream on if you don't stream leave your favorite emoji because engagement helps out a lot then it's free so thank you and as always happy streaming [Music]

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Length: 11min 22sec (682 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2023