Upload one video, switch on looping, and your channel broadcasts around the clock from our servers. No OBS running for weeks. No PC heating up your room. No 3 a.m. crash that takes the stream down while you sleep.
A 24/7 stream is a live broadcast that never stops. Instead of a camera feed, it sends one video file — or a long mix — to the platform on repeat, so the channel is permanently live. This is the format behind every "lofi hip hop radio" channel, ambient fireplace stream, aquarium cam, radio station simulcast, crypto ticker board and looping product showcase you have scrolled past.
The appeal is simple: a live channel is discoverable in a way a video upload is not. It sits in the platform's live sections, it can be found at any hour by someone searching for background music or a study stream, and every viewer who arrives sees a live badge and an active chat. The channel works while you do not.
The traditional approach is OBS on a spare computer, looping a media source, left running forever. It works right up until it doesn't:
Moving the loop into the cloud removes all five at once. The file lives on our servers, the encoding happens on our servers, and the RTMP connection to YouTube or Twitch originates from a datacentre rather than from your living room.
Anything from a few minutes to a full-length mix works. Keep it under 1.5 GB and export H.264 + AAC in MP4. See the loop tips below for making the seam invisible.
On YouTube, use a persistent stream key so the same URL survives restarts. Copy the RTMP URL and key — the stream key guide has the exact path for each platform.
Claim a slot at streamza.live/studio, upload the file, paste your key, and turn on loop forever. This is the setting that makes it a 24/7 channel rather than a one-shot broadcast.
Start the stream, confirm the broadcast on the platform side, then close everything. Renew the slot before it expires and the channel simply keeps running.
The difference between an amateur 24/7 channel and one people leave on for hours is the seam — the moment the video restarts. A few things make it invisible:
On looping and platform rules: looping your own content is allowed, but platforms do act against channels that are purely repetitive with no added value, and Facebook in particular limits how long a single broadcast can run. Check the platform guide for wherever you are streaming before committing to a permanent channel.
Claiming a slot starts a free 15-minute trial so you can confirm everything works. To keep it running the slot becomes a paid 24-hour slot, renewable for as long as the channel should stay live. Compare that to the alternative: a dedicated machine, its power draw, and a permanently occupied share of your home upload connection.
There are 10 concurrent live slots on Streamza, so a slot is a real resource with a real limit — which is also why an idle stream does not sit there occupying one indefinitely for free.
Lofi, jazz, chillhop, focus and sleep channels. The classic 24/7 format, and still the one that grows fastest through the live tab.
Fireplaces, rain, aquariums, train windows, city views — long-session background content people leave running on a second screen.
Put an audio station on a video platform with a static or animated visual so it is findable where your audience already is.
Prices, scores, schedules, dashboards, countdowns — anything worth having permanently available as a live feed.
An always-live channel showing your catalogue or showroom reel, with links pinned in the live chat.
Keep a looping teaser live in the days before a launch so the live URL is already ranking and subscribed to.
No. The video is stored and broadcast from Streamza's servers. After you press start you can close the tab and shut the machine down — the stream is no longer connected to your device in any way.
No. Looping happens inside the same continuous RTMP connection, so the platform never sees the stream stop and start. Viewers see one unbroken broadcast; there is no reconnect and no dropped live position.
Up to 1.5 GB, which at typical 1080p bitrates is roughly 30–60 minutes of high quality video, or several hours for simpler visuals like a static image with music.
Not for looping itself, as long as you own the content. Streams get in trouble for using music or footage the channel does not have rights to, or for content platforms judge to be purely repetitive with no value added. Use your own material and you are on solid ground — see our Acceptable Use Policy.
No — swapping the source means stopping and restarting the broadcast. Plan the loop content before you go live, and build in enough variety that you will not want to change it for a while.
Yes, up to three destinations at the same time on the Multistream plan. One looping upload feeds all of them — see multistreaming.
Platforms occasionally reset ingest connections during maintenance. Check on a long-running channel every so often, and if the platform has dropped the connection, restart the stream from Web Studio.
Upload a loop, paste your key, and let it run. Your computer stays off.
