imo RU-vid is maybe for the future but for everything built for twitch like all of the programs and websites that only use twitch is so much better for right now
Even though it's in the affiliate/partner contract to not restream, I still see people do it. Unless Twitch are personally paying attention to you, what's the worst that could happen.
I made the switch after listening to alpha gaming and seeing the shitshow twitch was displaying over the last few months. Didn't make a huge difference for me... 1 viewer andy gangs let's gooo !!!
As an affiliate I’ve been playin on other platforms, highly considering dropping the affiliate status just to always multi stream. Makes sense, small streamer and it’s a hobby
Ooor you can just use a second account (with the same email) and host your other account with the main account when you stream if you want your main viewers to join the other stream telling them "not to sub and stuff like that". You can still lure the other viewers from the other sites to your main twitch channel if they want extra content. Crazy am I right? XD
I am Twitch Affiliate and I use Restream with OBS to stream on Twitch and it's great platform tbh because I face problem to stream directly from Twitch as I live in Turkey and there is no servers close to me while on Restream there is many servers including Istanbul server. However, I noticed there is chat delay. I am not sure if it's related to using Restream or there is something I need to change from OBS settings.
I used to multistream with restream and then I took the affiliate agreement, so no more of that. However, I kept using restream just for their chat app. I can filter out ! Commands and my bot so I don’t miss messages. It’s great. For whatever reason, it’s also usually way faster than my twitch chat either in a pop out window or docked in OBS. I get messages 5-10 seconds faster a lot of the time which is massive when it comes to chat interaction.
After a crazy exchange of contract in Brazil I'm leaving twitch because in Brazil a prime member costs R$ 7.99 ( U$ 1.40) and twitch pays me for each prime member R$ 2.40 ( U$ 0.42). My channel went from 1500 prime members to 200 primes after this change because brazilians are abandoning the platform.
Perfectly timed video. I just paid for restream yesterday, and plan to start using it to stream to RU-vid, Facebook, and Twitch. I just submitted my offboarding request to Twitch so I can leave the affiliate program. I had no idea about the pairs option, which is going to be amazing for an upcoming event I'll be hosting with another streamer that might want to have it live on his stream as well. Thank you! I transferred over to youtube a couple months ago, and so far I love it, however, it is kind of difficult to get settled in since there's not as much of an option for chat bots and extensions like twitch has, so I'd love to see another video discussing some of that stuff.
Would actually love to see a video for the streambot etc and why they don't work on RU-vid personally. I want to cancel my affiliate because as someone who wants to make RU-vid content more than stream I'd rather have all my streams, videos, and shorts in one place but have the option to multistream to twitch, upload shorts to tiktok, etc.
Absolutely love these videos man. Your sense of humor is on point 😂 . I love the concept of restream, however the only other service I'd be streaming to would be RU-vid. I DJ techno for fun on Twitch and I hear that RU-vid will mute you while you are playing if you are playing a track which is flagged for copyright. Twitch won't do this until the VOD is saved. Anyway, maybe one day this will change and I will be able to use this. Thanks for the video man!
Been thinking about doing a public addiction recovery live stream, with gaming. Wanna be on Twitch but discoverability on for the nitch might not be great. This might work better. Twitch, RU-vid, and Facebook. Thanks again Nutty.
i do multistreaming to YT,Twitch,Trovo the only thing that is annoying, is that you cant have a combined Activityfeed - at least i havent found a way to combine all of them in 1 dock
Not sure about trovo, but my RU-vid and twitch activity feed combine nicely in stream labs... Good to know about that issue with trovo though, because in a few weeks I'm going to look into restreaming there myself as well.
Also another issue is that I use the twitch VOD audio thing so I can play music from Spotify and have it not send that audio to my VOD. I couldn’t figure this out with Restream so I went back to twitch only.
I have a question: Suppose I have streamelements chatbot set up and I want to be able to moderate twitch and youtube chats at the same time. Is there any way to easily do that with restream, or do I basically have to have my twitch / youtube chat dashboards opened up separately. Also will streamelements chatbot even work with restream?
Great Video, What i'd love in future is the ability for people who only stream using Xbox (or any other Console but primarily Xbox) to have the ability to Stream on RU-vid. On Xbox if you want to Stream without a Capture Card, you have to use Twitch but my Content is on RU-vid and also on RU-vid, the VOD saves as a Video. On Twitch i get a bug a lot where a Streamer is streaming only in 1080p and it sucks as it ruins the experience but on RU-vid you could pick a different resolution and not experienced the Resolution Bug.
Before affiliate I was using restream and the main thing before signing the contract was the exclusivity clause and not being able to multi-stream without breeching contract. So i agonized over the decision. But the main problem with restreaming for me anyway was I had people whose first or main language wasn't English and I didn't know enough of their language to bridge the gap. It's been a while but if restream was possible on mobile I wouldn't have been able to minimize stream and use a translate app without losing people or dropping the stream. So I decided to stick with Twitch bc what is the point if I can't effectively communicate with the audience? It was mostly Chinese viewers and I felt bad because I can't read.
@@BelmontGaming Mostly because Twitch will not promote your stream in any way and it buries the small streamers at the very bottom of your game category...RU-vid lets you have searchable title, a custom thumbnail, get recommended, etc.
What about the alerts? i have everything setup in youtube stream via streamelements alerts if i wish to use twitch followers and youtube subscribers both as alerts is it possible to do that with restream or streamelements has option to use both?
Nutty, I mostly do REAPER tutorials and live streams of audio education stuff, but I often also have guests on webcam...I have beaten the crap out of myself trying to make a decent overlay and stuff...I tried the two talk show ones from streamelements and own3d, but they're way beyond me...Any simple set of overlays out there for something like this?
This is great thanks so I have a video that shows how to make the chat show up like in an over lay over my game play. I play irscing on triples ao how can I view the chat thanks
I've been streaming on Twitch for a year now. I also have an old RU-vid channel. I started streaming using Restream as a way to transition into Twitch. I've never seen RU-vid as a good streaming platform yet, and even though they are improving it's still got a long way to go. Also, Harris mentioned that Twitch doesn't even enforce their exclusivity clause. And I know a couple partners that break this clause with no consequences. I think right now the whole RU-vid vs Twitch thing is just a "grass is greener" syndrome. RU-vid isn't really better because like I said, many people don't think of RU-vid when they think of live streams. And you think Twitch is bad with DMCA....? RU-vid is the DMCA OG...
So Nutty, here is a question How would you manage alerts for each and every platform? as we know the more browswer sources you add to obs the more resources it consumes. Ive wondered this for years.
can we use music in stream that without copy right issue from different platforms YT Fb Twitch that also is an issue one platform will allow a music 2nd will strike you. what u suggest on that
I have a question that needs answers. If i have a dedicated computer to stream a different overlay just to twitch (different camara angle too) then i can use restream with my main setup, and not break the affiliate TOS, right?
I used restream for a little bit and I liked it but my twitch chat seemed to notice delay. I searched it up and restream adds 1-2 seconds of delay which I would think isn't noticeable but my chat made it feel like it was very prevalent
Hey Nutty, this is a great overview and helped me understand the different uses for OBS and Restream together and separate! The restream chat was something I was not aware of. I was wondering if you knew of a hack / work around to add chat to a RTMP stream hosted on a website so we can allow website (WordPress) users to participate in restream chat as well? Right now I can get them to watch and read the chat within the WordPress stream but no way to engage with them. The user case is: 90 minute stream 1x per week First 30 minutes: public on Facebook and RU-vid and in the membership site using wordpress Next 60 minutes: Members ONLY on the wordpress site. Chat is a critical element for the members. Thanks Mark
I like to blast music as my intro on my stream,,, can you launch twitch first ,,, then launch RU-vid after your intro? Or do you have to launch all platforms at the same time ? Because streamlabs obs doesn’t allow me to launch one at a time….
But the question is what nitrate do you send to reatream servers to be able to quality HD streams on Twitch and RU-vid since they both have different bitrates they accept
Definitely thinking about it. Channel Rewards have been a huge part of my show though, and that's the hardest thing to figure out. I guess you can't have channel rewards if you aren't affiliate?
I have affiliate on Twitch, but have been looking into restreaming. I've seen some people stream on YT and Twitch at the same time and still have a sub button on Twitch. How are they doing so? Not saving the VOD on either or?
as far as I know yt doesn't have extensions yet like crowd control and other interactive ones. i don't have much time to edit videos so I just use yt mostly for shorts but i think i'd try to grow my yt channel first thru uploads then only switch once i'm big enough to earn. yt have a lot of big time creators that your channel will just get drowned by them especially if you at least don't have a small community to support you to start.
So one of the problems I find with giving up affiliate isn't the money, it's the access to emotes, etc. which my community loves, so it would suck to punish them like that. Saying that, it would be better to stream on RU-vid (which I'm doing once a week), than twitch is the primary channel (also once a week), because of the hi-res levels of RU-vid. I've moved to RU-vid 3 months ago, love the platform for live streaming, but it's a different beast of pros and cons, it's not a mirror of Twitch. NUTTY, what are your thoughts on losing emotes, bit unlocks etc. by giving up affiliate for a restream, and what are the upsides of simply streaming to more channels at once? Wider community, sure, but wouldn't you do that already by going native per platform?
I don't like it lol. Twitch just needs to let every affiliate/partner multistream. The only people that should have exclusivity are those on paid contracts. If you're not paying me, you shouldn't be allowed to keep me bound to your platform exclusively.
@@IzzyIkigai yeah exactly. I’m considering just taking the risk and multi-streaming. I’ve seen maybe 100 bucks from twitch in the year I’ve been streaming but my (small) community loved fooling around the emotes and dropping bitties and all the other stuff. I don’t necessarily want to take that from them. But I also don’t want to “start over” since I’ll already be doing that on RU-vid/trovo.
I’ve been thinking about going back to using restream, despite also being an affiliate. I’m a small streamer…for now, and what I’m thinking is, which ever hits the desired income first I’ll stick with that one.
I'm an old affiliate. I don't stream often but everything I've done the last few years has been multistream (though I didn't use restream I just hosted/transcoded myself--but Restream chat is cool). Haven't had any issues. If you aren't large enough for them to notice they won't care.
@@thetrueprotag_ it would be cool if Nutty did a video on hosting your own RTMP server and multistreaming to Twitch/Facebook/RU-vid. It's not that difficult once you've got it setup. But it involves running a couple programs and setting up a simple config file.
The only issue I've had is that it sends out my twitch live notification soooooo late. At times, I've seen it go out like 2-3 hours after I've began streaming!
Thanks bro! I agree with what you are saying. Re stream is awesome. I'm a top 1% player in COD. For multiplayer and plunder. A lot of my friends are tellin me to stream online. And this video helped. You should consider doing a full tut on setting this up with the chat and stuff. Greetings from Bangalore. Jesus bless you. Stay safe. 🙏🏻🌸💜
I swapped from twitch to youtube a while ago. I prefer the way my stream gets turned into a VOD directly and since i can use a higher uploadrate the quality improves alot.
As a small streamer starting out, honestly, RU-vid (streaming) is useless. The discovery is mostly theoretical, and while the always-available encoding is great and the quality is without a doubt higher it doesn't matter if nobody watches. I tried multistreaming for a while...with and without Restream...and the eyeballs simply were not there on YT. I gain much more viewer engagement through emotes and channel points than by being on a second platform. That said Restream is still useful as an Affiliate, because RU-vid is a place to get unlimited VOD storage. Just set them to Private by default and have them publish as Public/Unlisted a day later. You could upload them as videos too, but streaming them keeps them marked as "live" content, separate from your video uploads.
@@imniallg I suppose I’d have to go read the affiliate agreement to be sure, but I cannot imagine Twitch actually pursuing any action for Private streams that aren’t publicly published until after the 24hour exclusivity period has passed.
I ended up making an alt incase I want to stream to youtube and just stream to my alt at the same time which doesn't have twitch affiliate or anything. I just have to let my twitch audience know about my alt when I do though. Cause like twitch or youtube, not every has both to watch for live streaming.
i've thought of doing restream because I have a youtube and my gf has facebook, but the facebook part (unless it's changed) was locked to streaming to a gaming facebook page and not a regular page.
I've been using restream just over a month but whenever I incorporate Twitch to it they get a black screen. RU-vid and Facebook is just fine. I actually took twitch out the entire rotation when I multi-stream. Should I change my bitrate higher to 11,000? Or so something else? I'm not a twitch affiliate so I'm not bound to that restriction but I also don't have that server access
Twitch does not support 11,000kbps so no. Hard cap is 8,000kbps, recommended max is 6,000kbps. This applies to everyone, even partners. I assume there is an exception to a very small minority of high profile streamers, but for the vast majority of people, going over 8,000kbps will never work.
most important how to activate text to speech option so comment arrive its readed in stream and you dnt need to watch just reply back in live stream. i dnt see text to speech option in ReStream
Im only about to start streaming and this is great news. Wasnt really thinking about it till seeing latest news about Sykkuno moving to RU-vid. I will be starting from zero so what do I have to lose by doing both really. :)
Awesome video and to be honest we were using restream last year alot and thanks for letting us know about the Twitch Contract (oops) Do we wanna cancel our contract ? Not really but I guess we have to figure out another route. We are just Twitch Affiliate and have to make that decision soon. Excellent Video King Glad we caught your Birthday Stream it was Dope 👊🏿🌞 Happy Friday and Thanks for all your tips
Thank you! Don't cancel your contract if you plan to make Twitch your main platform. What we really need is for Twitch to just let affiliates multistream.
I'm about to start streaming for the first time. Can you make more videos on Restreaming? Can you break down exactly what I would be missing out on for doing multi-stream instead of focusing on one platform at a time for streaming? You said something about we would lose stuff from Twitch like emotes and stuff. Is that a big deal, should I be worried about that? Restream sounds like the future but why aren't the main streamers doing it? Or are they?
hi nutty love your videos man I have one question when I stream to youtube the sound doesn't come through not the game or my mic nothing Idk why. hope someone or even you helps me💕
I've been wrestling with switching for a couple of months now. What keeps me over on Twitch is I feel the connectivity to your audience is still better at the moment. It feels more organic and intimate, with how the audience can also interact with the stream through channel points. Also the extensions add a different layer to the live experience. I'm glad you made this video because I've been considering using Restream. I've multistreamed in the past, but because of my internet the video results weren't that good on the viewer end for RU-vid viewers. My upload speed just ain't it. I also like the scheduled videos that Restream offers. While you can do scheduled videos on RU-vid, not every platform offers that. I'm not affiliate or monetized, so I figured now is the best time to experiment with both. This video made me realize I've been over thinking it. That what's the worst could happen statement cut deep. That's exactly what happened to me, lmao.
Love your videos and content Nutty, I think by this time I've watched almost all of em on your channel; needed to watch some a few times too because I always come back after some time~ You're so fun and informative, like relaxed, ahaha~ I have a question I've been wondering for a longer time, if you're an Affiliate or Partner on Twitch, are you allowed to Collab with someone that is on another platform~? I know that you aren't allowed to use your stream content for 24h, basically while you're live~ But logically you should be allowed to Collab with other platform streamers, or even with multiple platforms at once if the streamers you are collabing with are each on a different platform altogether~ I am not sure about how that works in Twitch eyes, but since you're a Partner then your opinion is trusted~ I hope you know the answer to this issue that I'm having~ And if you answer, thank you for your time~!
I use to stream to both via Restream for years. Even as a Twitch affiliate. It just seemed like Twitch didn't care but maybe it was mostly because I never got any huge attention that got any Twitch staff in my chat lol. I'm sure they pay way more attention to partners doing that. I only stopped doing it because I heard rumors that Twitch could recognize its getting fed a stream from restream vs directly and would avoid promoting your channel. Probably wasn't true, but I've been desperate, man!
You didn't hear it from me but I've never heard a case of a single affiliate getting in trouble. But I'm not saying you should break your contract *wink wink*
