Restreaming Your Event on Multiple Platforms

With the restreaming feature, you can share your event simultaneously on multiple external platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. while it's live. This can help target wider audiences and generate greater visibility beyond just Livestorm, sharing your content through external channels at the same time.

Specifications for Restreaming#

• You must start your event to stream your screen to each destination.

• Recording is automatically enabled for restreaming to work.

• Unlike RTMP Streaming, you can have multiple speakers, invite people to speak, and share your screen, presentations, videos, or media files during the event.

• Streaming destinations are automatically configured for any future sessions added to the event.

• You cannot add or remove streaming destinations during an event; they must be set up in your settings beforehand.

• Livestorm-specific actions like CTAs or polls cannot be streamed.

• You can stream to up to 5 destinations per event.

• You cannot collect external statistics on views; only Livestorm platform engagement metrics are available.

• Viewing the event outside Livestorm does not consume extra Monthly Active Contacts.

• Streaming to a secondary Livestorm event room requires RTMP and an Enterprise plan.

• If an error occurs in the room, the host will see a popup:
  "There's an error. Please go to the dashboard to reconfigure and try again."

• If there’s an error setting up one restreaming destination, none of the other destinations for that session will work.

• You cannot restream multiple sessions simultaneously on the same event. Only the first session started will be restreamed, due to the single Restreaming URL per event.

Set Up Your Restreaming in Event Settings#

You can configure the restreaming feature in your settings ahead of time.

Add a Streaming Destination#

1After you create your event, click on Settings from the top navigation bar and scroll down to Video Settings.

2In video settings, scroll down to Streaming Destinations and click on Add destination.

3In the side bar, choose the streaming platform that you’d like to use and input the Server and Stream key where necessary. If you are unsure about your stream key, click on the Get Stream Key button to the right, underneath the streaming platform that you desire to use. And click on Create Destination.

4Your platform will show up under the Streaming Destinations section of the settings.

Remove a Streaming Destination#

1Under Streaming Destinations, click on the encircled dash sign to the right of the destination that you wish to delete.

2Confirm that you want to delete this destination.

Start Your Restreaming#

After configuration, each streaming destination is displayed in your event room before and during your event.

1You will see your chosen streaming platform icons displayed in the top right-hand corner of your event room.

2Click on Start Event. Your event video will then show up on each platform’s streaming service.

3Once you have verified your destinations in your event room and started your event, make sure to click on Go live in each chosen platform. 

4And you're live! 🎉

This is what your event room will look like in Livestorm while you're restreaming:

This is what your restream will look like on an external platform (Facebook here as an example):

Stop Your Restreaming#

There are two ways to stop your restreaming.

Stop All Streams#

To end your restreaming and your event at the same time, click on End Event in your Livestorm event room. This will automatically stop restreaming in all other destinations.

Stop an Individual Stream#

If you want to end an external restreaming, but not your Livestorm event, you must stop your live directly in that external platform.